Oh, my. I had no idea! I never read Nancy Drew, but you'd think I'd know this by now. Imagine writing 1300 books only to realize you can't do it all yourself. LOL! I think I'll just quit now. Hah!
Great research and background information. When I had my first job as a children's librarian in the early 1970's, I was told that Nancy Drew was pulp fiction and that we should spend our limited funds on books that were better children's literature. We knew even then that the series was written by ghost writers and mass produced. Although I never read Nancy Drew as a child myself, I didn't want anyone limiting what I chose to read in my free time, so why would I ban some of the most popular books based on the quality of the writing? I didn't.
Fortunately, neither my librarians nor my parents censored what I read. Even though I read Nancy early on, I can see the direct line my reading took from her to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Wilma Dykeman's Tall Woman, and so many others that your former supervisors would have considered "literature." I appreciate your comments! Thanks for reading.
Oh, my. I had no idea! I never read Nancy Drew, but you'd think I'd know this by now. Imagine writing 1300 books only to realize you can't do it all yourself. LOL! I think I'll just quit now. Hah!
Sounds exhausting, doesn't it? And he did it without AI, too!
I read Nancy Drew when I was a kid and didn’t know any of this. I still have a few copies of the books I owned.
Ooo, lucky you. I'd give anything to have my old Bobbsey Twin books. Hang onto those!
Great research and background information. When I had my first job as a children's librarian in the early 1970's, I was told that Nancy Drew was pulp fiction and that we should spend our limited funds on books that were better children's literature. We knew even then that the series was written by ghost writers and mass produced. Although I never read Nancy Drew as a child myself, I didn't want anyone limiting what I chose to read in my free time, so why would I ban some of the most popular books based on the quality of the writing? I didn't.
Fortunately, neither my librarians nor my parents censored what I read. Even though I read Nancy early on, I can see the direct line my reading took from her to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, Carson McCullers's The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Wilma Dykeman's Tall Woman, and so many others that your former supervisors would have considered "literature." I appreciate your comments! Thanks for reading.
Thank you for that charming and informative trip down memory lane!
Thanks for reading! I love to take us back to this time period.