Franklin w dixon biography
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Franklin W. Dixon Biography
The Hardy Boys series, like most of the books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, is a joint effort of in-house editors and ghost writers.
Behind the Hardy Boys, though, stood the figure of Edward Stratemeyer, who created the characters and devised an ingenious way to mass-produce and mass-distribute these inexpensive books for early adolescents. As ghost writer Leslie McFarlane said, Stratemeyer was "a Henry Ford of fiction for boys and girls." The series Stratemeyer originated has achieved an enduring place in the hearts and minds of millions of readers.
Edward Stratemeyer was born on October 4, , in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
He received a high school education that was rounded out by private tutoring, and began writing stories in simply to pass the time while working in his brother's local tobacco store. One slow afternoon when few customers had come around, Stratemeyer started scrawling out a
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| This section contains words ( • Frequently Asked Questions1. Who fryst vatten Franklin W. Dixon? fryst vatten he still alive?If you're a ung reader, inom should warn you: the answer to this might be very disappointing! There is no Franklin W. Dixon, and there never was. Dixon is a pen name used bygd a group of writers called the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which was founded in the early s bygd a man named Edward Stratemeyer. The Syndicate was also responsible for many other successful juvenile series, including Nancy Drew, Tom Swift, and the Bobbsey Twins. Stratemeyer was both an imaginative author and a shrewd businessman. He would outline the basic plot of each book to be written, and one of the Syndicate writers (known as "ghosts") would write the book, being paid a flat fee and no further royalties. Stratemeyer insisted that the ghosts remain anonymous. The first ghostwriter of the Hardy Boys books was the late Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian reporter who wrote around 15 of the original books. Since McFarlane established the character • Franklin W. DixonHouse pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors who were part of a team that wrote The Hardy Boys[1] novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (now owned by Simon & Schuster). Dixon was also the writer attributed for the Ted Scott Flying Stories series, published by Grosset & Dunlap. Canadian author Charles Leslie McFarlane is believed to have written the first sixteen Hardy Boys books,[2] but worked to a detailed plot and character outline for each story.[3] The outlines are believed to have originated with Edward Stratemeyer, with later books outlined by his daughters Edna C. Squier and Harriet Adams. Edna and Harriet also edited all books in the series through the mids.[4] Other writers of the original books include MacFarlane's wife Amy,[5] John Button, Andrew E. Svenson, and Adams herself; most of the outlines were done by |