# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mildred-benson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:16:33.606Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mildred-benson"
name: "Mildred Benson"
slug: "mildred-benson"
description: "Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson was an American journalist and writer of children's books. She wrote some of the earliest Nancy Drew mysteries and created the detective's adventurous personality. Benson wrote under the Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name Carolyn Keene from 1929 to 1953 and contributed to 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew mysteries, which were bestsellers."
tagline: "Fiction writer and journalist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/Mildred_Benson.png"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1905-07-10"
deathDate: "2002-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.91
  momentum:             9.729729729729732
  historical:           7.523006666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Mildred Benson"
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    title: "Mildred Wirt Benson"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump