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Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her / Melanie Rehak.

Rehak, Melanie. . Girl sleuth : Nancy Drew and the women who created her / Melanie Rehak. 1st ed. 0151010412 (alk. paper) series Orlando : Harcourt, c2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS3545.I774 Z874 2005

A fun read! The story behind the pseudonym "Carolyn Keene", and the two women most responsibile for creating Nancy Drew (Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams).

I See Dead People['s Books] | LibraryThing

I See Dead People['s Books]

Description: A group for those interested and involved in entering the library catalogs of famous readers.

Includes Thomas Jeferson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Marie Antoinette, Sylvia Plath and more

A Literary Map of Manhattan (NYT Book Review feature)

"This interactive map shows some of the places "where imaginary New Yorkers lived, worked, played, drank, walked and looked at ducks." View the locations on the map, or browse by author or title. Some of the almost 100 book titles represented include "The Invisible Man," "Harriet the Spy," "The Great Gatsby," and "James and the Giant Peach." From a 2005 New York Times Book Review feature." (via LII)

Pennsylvania Center for the Book : Literary Map of PA

The literary map of Pennsylvania is a graphic display of the literary history of our Commonwealth. On the map you'll find writers of novels, plays, short stories, technical manuals, legislation, children's literature…just about anything you could imagine connected to writing.

Click on a county to see authors from that county with biographies and lists of works.