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As a child, Mildred Wirt Benson was adventurous and independent, exploring the rural area and uncovering the mysteries in the fields and woods behind her family's Ladora, Iowa farm. It appears that, in many respects, Benson herself was the model for the qualities millions of young girls admired in her most famous character, Nancy Drew.

"Millie" began her writing career at fourteen, when she sold her first short story ("The Courtesy") to fiction magazine St. Nicholas. She continued her active childhood into adulthood, where she swam, played golf, and earned her aviator's license.

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In college, she studied journalism at the University of Iowa; in 1927, she was the program's first female graduate. The following year, Mildred married Asa A. Wirt, and they moved first to Cleveland, Ohio and later Toledo. In 1947, Asa Wirt died and Mildred married George Benson in 1950.

While in graduate school, she applied for a job with the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a children's publishing company sta