The Trump administration cancelled millions in arts funding. A film about the beloved Nancy Drew series was on the chopping block.

She would save her 25-cent-a-week allowance to buy a Nancy Drew book – then $1.25 – each time a new one came out. Then she'd bury herself in the sleuth's latest adventure.

In 1993, there was a scholarly conference on her, followed by a book, Rediscovering Nancy Drew, edited by Carolyn Stewart Dyer and Nancy Tillman Romalov (University of Iowa Press, 1995).