Fantastic book about Harriet Stratmeyer, the heiress to the Stratemeyer Syndicate, the writing company behind so many of the popular 20th c. children's series, including the Bobbsy Twins, The Dana Girls, The Hardy Boys, and more, and about Mildred Wirt Benson, the woman who wrote most of the "original 56" Nancy Drew books.
This was wonderfully done, and as much as it was biography, it was also social history, looking at how women's changing role through the 20th century was mirrored by the lives of these extraordinary women.
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