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(1863-1930)
| 1899 | The Rover Boys at School. After initial success with juvenile stories about the Spanish-American War, Stratemeyer launches a series featuring three brothers--Dick, Sam, and Tom Rover--in the first of thirty popular adventures to be published up to 1916. Stratemeyer and the syndicate he founded in 1914 would be responsible for such juvenile literary icons as Tom Swift, the Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and the Hardy Boys. |
| 1904 | The Bobbsey Twins; or, Merry Days Indoors and Out. Writing under the pen name "Laura Lee Hope," Stratemeyer introduces a popular fictional series for girls featuring two sets of twins--Flossie, Freddie, Nan, and Bert. |
| 1910 | Tom Swift and His Motor-Cycle. Stratemeyer introduces the plucky boy inventor whom he had modeled on his idol, Henry Ford, in the first of many adventures in this popular juvenile series. Each novel features an ingenious invention, many of which anticipate actual future technology, and a villain attempting to steal Tom's work. |
| 1927 | The Tower Treasure. Under the pseudonym "Franklin W. Dixon," Stratemeyer, "the king of the juveniles," and his syndicate launch a new juvenile detective series featuring teenage sleuths Frank and Joe Hardy, the Hardy Boys. It becomes one of the most popular series in children's fiction. |
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| Edward Stratemeyer | |
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| Born | October 4, 1862 Elizabeth, New Jersey, United States |
| Died | May 10, 1930 (aged 67) |
| Resting place | Evergreen Cemetery Hillside, New Jersey, United States |
| Occupation | Writer, Publisher |
| Nationality | American |
| Genres | children's fiction |
| Notable work(s) | creator of the book series: Tom Swift The Hardy Boys The Rover Boys The Bobbsey Twins Nancy Drew |
Edward Stratemeyer (October 4, 1862, in Elizabeth, New Jersey — May 10, 1930) was an American publisher and writer of books for children.
He wrote 150 books himself, and created the well-known fictional book series for juveniles including The Rover Boys (starting in 1899), The Bobbsey Twins (starting in 1904), Tom Swift (starting in 1910), The Hardy Boys (starting in 1927), and the Nancy Drew (starting in 1930) series, among others.
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Career
In 1893, Stratemeyer was hired by the popular dime-novel writer Gilbert Patten to write for the Street & Smith publication Good News.[1] Stratemeyer pioneered the technique of producing long-running, consistent series of books using a team of freelance writers to write standardized books, which were published under a pen name owned by his company.
Through his Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded in 1906, Stratemeyer produced short plot summaries for the books in each series, which he sent to other writers who completed the story, writing a specified number of pages and chapters. Each book would begin with an introduction of the characters and would be interrupted for a quick recapitulation of all the previous books in the series.
Death
He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey.
References
- ^ John A. Dinan in Sports in the Pulp Magazines page 66 (1998)
Sources
- O'Rourke, Meghan (2004-11-08, p. 120-129). "Nancy Drew's Father — The Fiction Factory of Edward Stratemeyer". The New Yorker.
External links
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- Works by Edward Stratemeyer at Project Gutenberg
- stratemeyer.org, a fansite on the Stratemeyer Syndicate
- Loh, Sandra Tsing (October 2005). ("Nancy Drew Has Two Mommies — The Secret of the Old Saw". The Atlantic Accessed 2009-09-07. (A book review of Rehak, Melania (2005). Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her. Harcourt (Orlando). ISBN 9780151010417.)
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