PGRule6/MildredWirtNotes

Biographical Research

Author Name[1]:

• Mildred A(ugustine) Wirt
• Mildred Benson
  • She married again after her first husband (Asa Wirt) died. Copyright renewals can be found under both names.[5]

Personal aliases[2]

• Frank Bell
• Don Palmer
• Ann Wirt
• Dorothy West
• Joan Clark

Stratemeyer Syndicate aliases[2]

• Julia K. Duncan (shared with Walter Karig on the Doris Force series[3])
• Frances K. Judd (shared by others)
• Helen Louise Thorndyke
• Carolyn Keene (shared by others)
• Alice B. Emerson

Author Citizenship

• Born July 10, 1905; Ladora, IA[4]
• Resided Iowa City; Cleveland, OH; from 1944, Toledo, OH[2]
• Died 2002[2] (too late for inherited renewal rights to be relevant; she renewed a number--by no means all--of her own books;[5] Stratemeyer Syndicate, employer for hire for some series, renewed nearly all books written for it.)

Footnotes

1 http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bai/benson.htm at the University of Iowa Library Special Collections (the repository of her literary relicts)

2 http://www.writinguniversity.org/index.php/main/author/mildred_wirt_benson/ at the University of Iowa (her alma mater)

3 http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/spec-coll/bai/lapin.htm at the University of Iowa Library Special Collections.

4 http://www.toledoblade.com/Culture/2007/06/15/Toledo-s-Millie-Benson-created-the-sleuth.html (at her longtime employer)

5 http://collections.stanford.edu/copyrightrenewals/bin/page?forward=home -- many sample searches on names and book titles

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