Sara Berrey is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota. Her
dissertation, “Generations in Print: Revision in American Literature 18501900,” explores how revising texts engineers how we revise ourselves and
relationships. She wrote this essay for her mother, Joan Clare Berrey, who loves
reading Nancy Drew.
Ron Briley is a history teacher and assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory
School in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he has taught for 30 years. Ron is
also an adjunct professor of history at the University of New Mexico-Valencia
Campus. His work on popular culture has appeared in numerous anthologies,
scholarly journals, and reference sources. He is the au ѡ