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Melanie Rehak
MELANIE REHAK is the author of Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid (2010) and Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (2005), which won an Edgar Award and an Agatha Award. Rehak has written for the New York Times... show more

MELANIE REHAK is the author of Eating for Beginners: An Education in the Pleasures of Food from Chefs, Farmers, and One Picky Kid (2010) and Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (2005), which won an Edgar Award and an Agatha Award. Rehak has written for the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Nation, and other periodicals. Her column on food books appears in Bookforum. You can learn more about her at http://www.melanierehak.com
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A Man With An Agenda
A Man With An Agenda rated it 5 years ago
I read this in college and it opened my eyes, on finding a copy on our first venture out this past weekend in a second hand shop I figured it was time to give it another go since I've read a few of the original Nancy Drews now. 'Girl Sleuth' traces the history of the 'Nancy Drew' series from its ...
Batgrl: Bookish Hooha
Batgrl: Bookish Hooha rated it 11 years ago
It's been very hard to write about this book and not make it sound sound like it's The Story of Mildred Wirt Benson. That's my bias right there - after reading so much about her (and then reading more online) I'm now a huge Mildred fan, and in the rest of this I'll have to try and restrain myself fr...
What I Happen to Be Reading At the Moment
Nancy Drew was my first exposure to the fiction mystery novel, and it didn't take third grade me long to figure out the formula. Something crazy happens, Nancy is on the case with her pair of good friends, and then she messes around until she is knocked out, and the criminal reveals all. Not exactly...
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud
Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud rated it 13 years ago
Rating: 4* of fiveThe Book Description: A plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the Sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to enter the pantheon of American gi...
Myrto
Myrto rated it 16 years ago
Before the age of 13, I'd read every single Nancy Drew book published (and all the Hardy Boys books, too). I devoured them, loving the tension and the gradual sorting-out of clues. I never knew until much later that Nancy Drew was created and written by a team of writers, beginning in the 1930s!I wa...
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