Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:38:42 -0400
From: Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Nancy Drew Author Dies
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:

> ronkean at juno.com wrote:
> > Unless I am mistaken, my mother used to read Nancy Drew mysteries
> > when she was a young girl.  It would have never occurred to me to
> > think that the author was still living after so long.
>
> Some people start writing at an early age and live a long time.
>
> Robert Heinlein started writing after he was declared seriously ill
> and permanently disabled.  He lived nearly 60 more years, making lots
> of money, and outliving his doomsaying doctor by half a century.
>
> The producer of Little Rascals, Hal Roach, outlived most of the
> children featured in those short movies, most of which were made
> before either of my parents were born.  He died in the 1990s.
>
> The philosopher/writer/mathematician Bertrand Russell wrote from the
> 19th century into the 1970s.
>
> Jack Williamson is a science fiction author who has been writing for
> 75 years.  He was born in Arizona Territory in 1908, and he moved
> to New Mexico in a covered wagon in 1915.  He's still living in New
> Mexico and is still writing.

Yup.  And Georgette Heyer sold her first novel (THE BLACK MOTH) while still
in her teens and wrote successfully throughout her long life.    I think the
Nancy Drew mysteries first appeared in the early '30s -- roughly 60 years
ago.

--Ted White