As a new film, 'Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase' hits movie theaters Friday, here’s a look at why the fictional character remains beloved by Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton and three Supreme Court justices.
Some of the women who have said they were inspired by teen detective Nancy Drew : Sandra Day O'Connor, Hillary Clinton, Sonia Sotomayor, Laura Bush, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Gayle King. By Gillian Brockell Gillian Brockell Staff writer for Retropolis Email Bio Follow March 15 at 7:00 AM In 2007, first lady and former librarian Laura Bush held an event at a middle school library extolling the virtues of Nancy Drew.
Nancy Drew was creator Edward Stratemeyer’s female answer to the detective series “The Hardy Boys.” The teen daughter of a well-to-do attorney, Nancy zipped around her hometown of River Heights in a blue roadster, solving mysteries and catching criminals. And sure, she had beauty, cute clothes and a “special friend” named Ned — but those took a back seat to her intelligence, courage and sense of justice.
Now as the latest Nancy Drew movie hits theaters, here’s a look at some of the successful women who have cited the girl detective as an influence.As Sonia Sotomayor was gearing up for confirmation to the Supreme Court in 2009, she said that when she was a child, reading was a “rocket ship” out of her family’s apartment in the Bronx. And Nancy Drew was her favorite: “I can’t say it was one particular book,” she told The Washington Post. “It was the whole series. I read them all.
As mentioned above, Bush told students that Nancy Drew was “a favorite book of mine when I was your age” at Washington Middle School for Girls in 2007. “You might this summer go to your library and check out Nancy Drews,” she told them. “And if you’re a really, really fast reader, you could read all 57.”
"I was always impressed with her bravery, because I was not a brave kid,” Gayle King said of Nancy Drew. Gayle King, Barbara Walters and Diane Sawyer
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