Skip to the content
VALÉORINE London
AuthorShort verified entry

Mildred Benson

Mildred Benson (1905–2002) was an American journalist, writer and ghostwriter.

Also recorded as Carolyn Keene · Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson · Mildred Augustine · Mildred Wirt

Read the articleReferencesBrowse the field

Biography

Born at Ladora in 1905, died in Toledo in 2002.

Mildred Benson studied at University of Iowa. The recorded working language is American English and English.

Distinctions recorded are Edgar Awards, Iowa Women's Hall of Fame, Ohio Women's Hall of Fame and Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Named by the record

Places

Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.

  • Toledo
Death or burial
Plotted from the places the record itself names, at the scale of their own extent.
Named but not plotted · 1

  • Ladora

    Birth place

Primary material

Documents and archives

Citations

References

Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.

The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 19 August 2026.

Elsewhere in Books

32,093 published records in this field, each with its sources named.

Best supported in this field

Read the complete books index

For owners

Own a work by Mildred Benson?

A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.

Request a valuationHow selling works