Bibliograph

Girl sleuth, Nancy Drew and the women who created her, Melanie Rehak

Type

Label

Girl sleuth, Nancy Drew and the women who created her, Melanie Rehak

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Girl sleuth

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Melanie Rehak

Series statement

A Harvest book

Sub title

Nancy Drew and the women who created her

Summary

An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year The plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930-and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American culture. As beloved by girls today as she was by their grandmothers, Nancy Drew has both inspired and reflected the changes in her readers' lives. Here, in a narrative with all the page-turning pace of Nancy's adventures, Melanie Rehak solves an enduring literary mystery: Who created Nancy Drew? And how did she go from pulp heroine to icon?

Target audience

adult

Classification