14 Facts About Walter Karig

Walter Karig was a prolific writer, who served as a US naval captain.

Walter Karig wrote scripts for the television series Victory at Sea.

Besides his works on naval history, Walter Karig was a novelist, publishing under his own name, and a journalist.

Walter Karig was born in New York, New York on November 13,1898.

Walter Karig was the son of Martin and Elsie Karig.

Walter Karig received his early education in schools of New York City, and studied art at the New York School of Fine Arts and Ecole Julien in Paris, France.

Walter Karig did not seem to enjoy writing with the trio formula used by regular series ghostwriters.

Walter Karig brought back the chum Helen Corning from the earliest Nancy Drew books and featured her prolifically, while diminishing the roles of George Fayne and Bess Marvin.

Walter Karig revealed to catalogers at the Library of Congress he authored three Nancy Drew volumes, numbers 8,9,10, under the pseudonym of Carolyn Keene.

Stratemeyer's attorney threatened legal action against Walter Karig for claiming authorship.

Walter Karig wrote himself into the novel as a beleaguered naval officer working at a US Navy public information office, where dozens of people paraded by his desk daily trying to obtain appointments to meet with the "highest authority" in the United States government.

The novel's name was inspired by Walter Karig's meeting with a member of the Zotz family:.

In Washington, DC, Walter Karig was a member of the Cosmos Club, Gridiron, Carabao, National Press, and Circus Saints and Sinners.

Walter Karig died in Bethesda, Maryland, on September 30,1956.