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Title
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Mildred Wirt Benson Collection
Description
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Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson was an American journalist and author of children's books, in particular the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries. Writing under Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name Carolyn Keene from 1929 to 1947, she contributed to 23 of the first 30 originally published Nancy Drew mysteries.
Benson was born Mildred Augustine in Ladora, Iowa to Lillian and Dr. J. L. Augustine. She married Asa Wirt, who worked for Associated Press, and, after Wirt's death in 1947, married George A. Benson, editor of the Toledo Blade newspaper of Toledo, Ohio three years later. He died in 1959. She earned her degree in English from the University of Iowa in 1925, returned and earned her master's degree in journalism in 1927, the first student to do so there. She worked for 58 years as a journalist, writing a weekly column for the Toledo Blade and continuing to work full-time (mostly writing obituaries) until a few months before her death, from lung cancer, in 2002 at the age of 96.
Benson also wrote many other series, including the Penny Parker books, which were published under her own name and which she told interviewers were her favorites.
This collection includes the title pages, advertisements, and tables of contents of some of the novels she wrote. There are also pictures, letters and other personal memorabilia.
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University of Iowa. Libraries. Special Collections Dept.
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Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine), 1905-2002
Date
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1922-1928
2007-05-30
Format
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jpeg
Identifier
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IWA0054
mwbscrap
169948831
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm/ref/collection/mwb/id/2587
Publisher
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University of Iowa. Libraries. Iowa Women's Archives
Relation
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Mildred Wirt Benson Collection; Iowa Women's Scrapbooks Digital Collection
Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson Papers, 1915-2002
http://lib.uiowa.edu/collguides/?IWA0054
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Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this digital object. Commercial use or distribution of the object is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder.
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Students
Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine), 1905-2002
University of Iowa
United States -- Iowa -- Ladora
1920-1930
Universities & colleges
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Women
United States -- Iowa -- Iowa City
United States -- Ohio -- Cleveland
Title
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Mildred Wirt Benson memory book, 1922-1928
Type
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Still image; Text
Scrapbooks; Clippings; Programs; Dance cards; Place cards; Announcements