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		Stratemeyer soon realized that the lion's share of the money in the industry came to the owner of the copyright, not necessarily the author.
		Edward Stratemeyer took the financial risk of the success of his literary properties and it is appropriate that he reaped the rewards when a story sold well.
		The Stratemeyer Syndicate decided that it was better to revise the stories rather than pay to have the old, dated stories typeset using the new methods.
	www.washburn.edu /sobu/broach/StratemeyerFAQ.txt (1091 words)

	Edward Stratemeyer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stratemeyer pioneered the technique of producing long-running, consistent series of books using a team of freelance authors to write standardized novels, which were published under a pen name owned by his company.
		Stratemeyer's series were also innovative in that they were intended purely as entertainment, with little of the moral lessons or educational intent found in most other popular fiction of the early twentieth century.
		Stratemeyer is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, New Jersey.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Stratemeyer (238 words)

	Mildred Benson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Stratemeyer hired Mildred Benson in 1926 to assist in expanding his roughly-drafted stories with Syndicate directed, juvenile text in order to satisfy increasing demand for his series books.
		At Edward Stratemeyer's death under the terms of his will, all Syndicate ghostwriters, including Benson, were sent one fifth of the equivalent of the royalties the Syndicate had received for each book series to which they had contributed.
		This was required as the stories were owned and written by the Stratemeyer's, and they had to protect their Syndicate pen names and preserve series continuity as contributors to the series came and went.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mildred_Benson (591 words)

	The Secrets Behind Nancy Drew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Edward was so pleased with her work that he eventually commissioned her to write the next three titles in the series.
		In 1929, Edward Stratemeyer perceived the idea having a similar Hardy Boy's girl detective; this idea was to be the birth of Nancy Drew.
		When Edward died he had made no plans for anyone to take over his business so his death resulted in a period of turmoil while the family tried to sell the business but the depression had begun and there were no buyers.
	www.ebcityfarm.org.uk /wendy/nancy3.html (1171 words)

	Book Publisher - Harcourt, Harvest, Rehak, Girl Sleuth
		Stratemeyer was twenty-six years old, tall, slender, and bespectacled, with a brushy mustache, dark hair combed back off a high forehead, and a preternatural instinct for the arc of a good tale for young people.
		As they grew, the Stratemeyer boys were put to work in their father's thriving tobacco store, in order that he might teach them the basics of commerce and, especially, entrepreneurship.
		Edward, on the other hand, was educated in the public schools of Elizabeth, and though he had an ear for music, too, preferred language.
	www.harcourtbooks.com /bookcatalogs/bookpage.asp?isbn=0151010412&option=excerpt (1609 words)

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		Stratemeyer, besides his own works, heads a literary bureau and his office is within seven or eight minutes' distance of every worth-while publishing house in the metropolis except the downtown house of Harper.
		Stratemeyer and in those early days of his career the series of holiday stories he wrote for the Sunday Call were written with this interest in view.
		Stratemeyer was 3,500 miles from home one summer in Vancouver, British Columbia he met a San Francisco lad who saw his name on the hotel register and instantly identified him as the man who wrote the "Dave Porter" books and the "Old Glory" and "Colonial" series.
	www.readseries.com /joslaw/nwrker.htm (2286 words)

	ALFRED B. STREET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His father, Henry Julius Stratemeyer, came from Germany in 1848 and was in the gold rush to California in 1849.
		Henry's brother in New Jersey having died, he returned there to settle the estate and later married the widow, Anna (Siegel) Stratemeyer, and by her had a daughter and two sons, one of whom was Edward.
		While Stratemeyer managed the syndicate he himself was not inactive, for he spent much of his time collecting data for the stories, and often wrote great parts of them himself.
	www.niulib.niu.edu /badndp/stratemeyer_edward.html (930 words)

	Edward Stratemeyer: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Edward Stratemeyer (October 4, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Stratemeyer produced short plot summaries for the novels in each series, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Stratemeyer's series were also innovative in that they were intended purely as entertainment, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_stratemeyer.htm (753 words)

	THE AUTHORS
		Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) was the founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
		Edna Camilla Stratemeyer Squier (1895-1974) was the youngest daughter of Edward Stratemeyer and Magdalene Baker Van Camp Stratemeyer (1867-1935).
		Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1892-1982) was the eldest daughter of Edward Stratemeyer and eventually became the CEO of the Syndicate.
	home.pacbell.net /dbaumann/authors.htm (2951 words)

	Stratemeyer, Edward (1862-1930) \| St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Edward Stratemeyer revolutionized the world of children's writing by adapting it to the methods of mass production.
		His Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded at the turn of the twentieth century, hired ghostwriters to develop hundreds of stories based on Stratemeyer's outlines.
		The progress of Edward Stratemeyer's career is reminiscent of an Alger plot as well.
	www.bookrags.com /research/stratemeyer-edward-1862-1930-sjpc-04 (383 words)

	11.10.04
		I might have heard that a man named Edward Stratemeyer was behind Nancy Drew and her comrades The Hardy Boys.
		Edward Stratemeyer was the Henry Ford of children's book series.
		Stratemeyer edited the manuscripts for conformity to his formulas and style then published them under an author's name that he owned.
	www.madinpursuit.com /Journal/20041110.htm (409 words)

	USAF Historical Study No. 71 - USAF Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Lieutenant General George Edward Stratemeyer was World War II chief of Air Staff and Far East Air Forces commander during the first year of the Korean War.
		Stratemeyer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1890.
		Stratemeyer was promoted to lieutenant general in May 1945 and from April 1944 until March 1946 was commander of the Army Air Forces in the China Theater with headquarters at Chungking.
	www.wpafb.af.mil /cgi-bin/quiz.pl/history/korea/strat.htm (472 words)

	Stratemeyer, Edward L - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Stratemeyer, Edward L
		Stratemeyer himself probably wrote a total of another 220 books.
		He founded the Stratemeyer Literary Syndicate in New York (later moving to New Jersey).
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Stratemeyer,+Edward+L (243 words)

	The History of the Hardy Boys
		Stratemeyer soon found that he had far more ideas for stories and series than he could write on his own.
		Stratemeyer 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.
		In fact, it is the original Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, begun by Edward Stratemeyer in 1927, that have been the most successful.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Hills/5567/history.html (824 words)

	ReadWriteThink: October 4, 2006: Edward Stratemeyer, creator of book series such as Nancy Drew, was born on this day in ...
		ReadWriteThink: October 4, 2006: Edward Stratemeyer, creator of book series such as Nancy Drew, was born on this day in 1862.
		Edward Stratemeyer was a series book author who began the Stratemeyer Literary Syndicate in 1905.
		Edward Stratemeyer, creator of book series such as Nancy Drew, was born on this day in 1862.
	www.readwritethink.org /calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=303 (545 words)

	Online Book Reviews on Child Literature - Childrens Book Reviews
		Edward Stratemeyer, the son of a German immigrant, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on October 4, 1862.
		Dizer wrote that this literary syndicate was considered to be "the most important single influence in American juvenile literature." Hiring a stable of writers, he supplied characters, plot outlines, and pseudonyms for what quickly became the largest juvenile fiction publishing enterprise in the country.
		Edward Stratemeyer died in Newark, New Jersey on May 10, 1930, at the age of 68 of lobar pneumonia.
	www.lookingglassreview.com /Edward_Stratemeyer.html (348 words)

	Edward Stratemeyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Edward Stratemeyer was born October 4, 1862 in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
		Stratemeyer married Magdalene Baker VanCamp and they went on to have two children.
		Stratemeyer wrote around 160 books himself and outlined around another 800 more.
	www.paralumun.com /biostrat.htm (88 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / The All-American Girl—And Detective
		Nancy Drew, girl detective, was the creation of a rich man, Edward Stratemeyer, and later, his daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, two people who went through the Depression without any serious concessions in their lifestyle.
		Edward Stratemeyer, book packager extraordinaire, was the mind behind some of the biggest publishing successes in twentieth-century America.
		Stratemeyer’s first teen sleuths, the Hardy Boys, were a big success, and a female counterpart was the logical next step.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/web/20060429-nancy-drew-mysteries-carolyn-keene-edward-stratemeyer-bobbsey-twins-tom-swift-agatha-christie-harriet-adams-mildred-wirt-benson-hardy-boys.shtml (1182 words)

	Trudi Johanna Abel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stratemeyer had created a massive literary empire that for over seventy-five years produced such unparalleled best-sellers as the Rover Boys, Tom Swift, Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys, and the Bobbsey Twins adventure series.
		In this dissertation, I demonstrate that Stratemeyer is in part responsible for his absence from history.
		Through a focus on Stratemeyer's career and the Syndicate that he developed, this dissertation explores the production and reception of juvenile popular fiction between 1890 and 1930.
	history.rutgers.edu /graduate/ab93abel.htm (326 words)

	WELCOME TO HARDY BOYS BOOKS HELP PAGE
		In 1927 Edward Stratemeyer, head of the productive literary syndicate that bore his name,proposed a new series to Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian journalist and free-lance writer who had worked for him on other titles.
		"What Stratemeyer had in mind was a series of detective stories on the juvenile level, involving two brothers of high-school age who would solve such mysteries as came their way," McFarlane continues.
		Stratemeyer also used the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon for another series launched in 1927: the "Ted Scott Flying Stories." Edward L. Stratemeyer, Andrew E. Svenson, Harriet S. Adams, and James Duncan Lawrence were among the authors who contributed to the "Hardy Boys" and "Ted Scott" series.
	www.hardyboys.com /hardyboys/hardybh.html (845 words)

	Edward Stratemeyer - Biography and Works
		Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930), American author and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which published more than eighty juvenile fiction series under myriad ghostwriters and dozens of pseudonyms.
		Edward Stratemeyer was the youngest son of the six children of German tobacconist Henry Julius Stratemeyer and Anna Siegal.
		Stratemeyer married Magdalene Van Camp in 1891, with whom he'd have two daughters, Edna and Harriet.
	www.online-literature.com /stratemeyer (605 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Available documentation attests that between the years of 1886 and 1930, Edward Stratemeyer published 150 titles that were exclusively his own and that he also masterminded a literary machine which produced some 700 titles published under more than sixty-five pseudonyms and translated into a dozen languages.
		Stratemeyer did, and Under Dewey at Manila; or, The War Fortunes of a Castaway, featuring Larry and Ben Russell and their chum Gilbert Pennington, became "the financial hit of the juvenile publishing industry in 1899," according to Prager.
		Stratemeyer's prose was also rather stilted, reflecting his early association with Alger and Adams at Street and Smith, and he often relied on stereotyped views of various ethnic groups.
	home.sc.rr.com /cameronebersole (4448 words)

	The Secret Life of the Hardy Boys: Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stratemeyer was the successful creator of numerous series books, including the Rover Boys series and the Tom Swift series.
		Stratemeyer often found his ghostwriters by running magazine ads, and such an ad prompted McFarlane to write to Stratemeyer in 1926.
		Pleased, Stratemeyer hired McFarlane to write the first volumes of a new series featuring two brothers known as the Hardy Boys.
	www.ohiou.edu /oupress/greenwald/observer.HTM (500 words)

	Fredericksburg.com - Step back into that fantasy world
		Rehak tracks and explains the machinations of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, whereby Stratemeyer roughed out a bare outline of a story, then farmed out the actual writing to an author who was paid a flat fee for the work, but received no future royalties.
		Stratemeyer, knowing his daughters had no business experience, had intended for them to sell the syndicate upon his death.
		Edward Stratemeyer always intended the stories to be timeless, and for that reason even the Great Depression and World War II were never mentioned.
	fredericksburg.com /News/FLS/2005/112005/11272005/144556 (925 words)

	MYSTERY GIRL / Uncovering the hidden history of a pre-feminist icon
		Dreamed up by children's book magnate Edward Stratemeyer, Keene was the pseudonym of two women: first, a no-nonsense Iowa journalist named Mildred Wirt Benson, and then Edward's daughter, a suburban mother of four named Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
		In 1929, Edward wrote a treatment for a series about a high-school-aged amateur sleuth, who he suggested might be named Stella Strong, Diana Dare or Nan Drew.
		Edward Stratemeyer died shortly after the first book was published, and his daughters, Harriet and her younger sister Edna, took over the syndicate themselves, with Harriet assuming most of the burden despite her lack of business experience.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/18/LVG4JEN2A81.DTL (1336 words)

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		The Stratemeyer Syndicate was established to allow Stratemeyer to purchase existing stories and plot new ones to be completed by ghostwriters.
		It quickly moved to their daughters, HARRIET S. ADAMS and EDNA C. STRATEMEYER (aka EDNA C. Although Edna submitted many of the plot outlines for the NANCY DREW series, she soon became an inactive partner and moved to Florida.
		In general, the Stratemeyer Syndicate series were better than many of its competetors published at similar price ranges.
	members.aol.com /sharonr899/library/StratemeyerFAQ.txt (1090 words)

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		Chronicles the history of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, concentrating on the efforts of Franklin K. Mathiews, chief librarian for the Boy Scouts, to destroy the Syndicate.
		A2326 SODERBERGH, PETER A. "Edward Stratemeyer and the Juvenile Ethic." International Review of History and Political Science (Meerut, India) 11 (February 1974):61-71.
		Examines the values expressed by Stratemeyer in the prefaces to a number of his books.
	www.unm.edu /~lhendr/author/author6.98.html (318 words)

	Edward Stratemeyer - Encyclopedia.com
		He began writing stories in imitation of Horatio Alger and other adventure writers, and he later edited several publications and began writing series of books.
		In 1906 he founded the Stratemeyer Literary Syndicate, which would publish the Rover Boys, Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Bobbsey Twins, and Nancy Drew series, written by himself and a stable of hack writers under a variety of names.
		After his death his company was largely directed by his daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1893?–1982), who also wrote many books in several series.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1B1-379682.html (511 words)

	Josephine Lawrence--Children's Books
		In 1917, during her early years at the Call, she interviewed Edward Stratemeyer, author of numerous boys' books and head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
		Lawrence impressed Stratemeyer enough for him to tell her that, should she want to write juveniles, he'd be interested in seeing her work.
		The latter was somewhat of a departure from the Stratemeyer Syndicate's previous tots' series, since it used a group of friends rather than members of only one family as protagonists.
	www.readseries.com /joslaw/joslaw-1c.htm (501 words)

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