Sharon Blythe Wagner (born 1936) is an American author of more than 60 mystery, Gothic romance, and young adult fiction titles.
She wrote five titles
in the
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories
The ''Nancy Drew Mystery Stories'' is the long-running "main" series of the ''Nancy Drew'' franchise, which was published under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. There are 175 novels — plus 34 revised stories — that were published between 1930 and ...
series under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. Wagner's Nancy Drew titles are ''
The Kachina Doll Mystery'' (1981), ''
The Elusive Heiress'' (1982), ''
The Broken Anchor'' (1983), ''
The Emerald-Eyed Cat'' (1984), and ''
The Eskimo's Secret'' (1985).
Wagner was born in
Wallace, Idaho
Wallace, Idaho is a city in and the county seat of Shoshone County, Idaho, Shoshone County, Idaho, in the Silver Valley (Idaho), Silver Valley mining district of the Idaho Panhandle. Founded in 1884, Wallace sits alongside the South Fork of the C ...
,
grew up in
Cut Bank, Montana
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and lives in
Mesa, Arizona
Mesa ( ) is a city in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. The population was 504,258 at the 2020 census. It is the List of municipalities in Arizona, third-most populous city in Arizona, after Phoenix, Arizona, Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, T ...
.
Wagner began publishing in approximately 1965. After writing scores of magazine short stories, ''
Prairie Wind'' (1968), illustrated by friend and neighbor
Rita Warner, was her first full-length book.
Under her own name, Wagner also authored the Gypsy series of mysteries. The action is set on a Western ranch. ''Horse Illustrated'' called ''
Gypsy from Nowhere
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'' one of the 30 best "horse books."
Wagner has also published under the names Casey Stephens, M.E. Cooper, Ann Sheldon, Blythe Stephens, and Blythe Bradley.
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1936 births
American women novelists
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American women writers
American children's writers
Writers from Arizona
Living people