Why did Carolyn Keene write the Nancy Drew books?

Answer 1

I hate to disappoint you, but like many juvenile fiction writers, Carolyn Keene (also spelled Keane) is a pseudonym. There were several writers involved in the Nancy Drew novels. The same applied to the Hardy Boys ( Franklin W.Dixon was a wartime governor of Alabama-certainly not a juvenile detective writer. they used a variety of authors. one notes there is never a capsule biography ( About the writer) in the back of the book or in the introduction or flyleaf! This was a common practice with juvenile literature as it was felt the use of a one-author front would cement reader loyalty and the kids would not be smart enough to see different hands behind the typewriter. This was a common (Scam) in juvenile literature. Oddly enough a multitude of script writers and cartoonists churn out such materials as say Flintstones, and there is no identity crisis, so to speak) but with books evidentally there was. it would look a bit odd to have Nancy Drew and the White Russian codebook ( a title I made up) and accredited to (writers project of the KGB) wouldn"t go over very well, Nyet? It should be stated there were several writers involved- quite differing styles- in the (Tom Swift)Modern (Tom Swift Jr) Science Fiction novels all which espoused the one-man in ventive and adventure show. The author of say the (megascope space prober- which had a homosexual separation-angst subplot and the one about the Green Orb- a most intriguing and really sci-fi extraterrestrial life form almost certainly were by different writers. One was way ahead, light years- of the other.

Answer 2

Carolyn Keene is a pseudonym used by several authors who wrote Nancy Drew books. The series was created by Edward Stratemeyer, and he hired different ghostwriters to write the stories. The authors wrote under the name Carolyn Keene to maintain consistency in the series.