![]() ![]() ![]() What mattered most was that the product should possess a certain distinctive feel, and yet remain consistent from book to book. His central-and perhaps unsettling-insight was that, when it came to series fiction, it didn’t matter who in particular wrote the stories. He had sold several dime novels and was already a prolific writer himself before he hit on what was to become his hit-generating, money-making formula. ![]() ![]() Stratemeyer, the son of German immigrants, was born and lived in New Jersey. All these “authors” were just as fictitious as the novels they were supposed to have written, and all were the creation of Edward Stratemeyer and his Stratemeyer syndicate. and the rest weren’t even pen names in the usual sense since there was no single author behind any of the series. Emerson (“Ruth Fielding”), nor Margaret Penrose (“The Motor Girls) and many other beloved writers of popular series fiction. Dixon (author of the “Hardy Boys” series), Laura Lee Hope (“The Outdoor Girls, “The Moving Picture Girls,” “The Bobbsey Twins”), Victor Appleton (“Tom Swift”), Alice B. It’s no longer a secret that Carolyn Keene, the hardworking, prolific, zippily-named and incredibly long-lived author of the “Nancy Drew” books, as well as the “Dana Girls” series, never existed. ![]()
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