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	Stratemeyer Syndicate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, Dave Fearless and others.
		In Stratemeyer's view, it was not the promise of sex or violence that made such reading attractive to boys; it was the thrill of feeling "grown-up," and the desire for a series of stories, an "I want some more" syndrome.
		In 1930 Stratemeyer died and the Syndicate was inherited by his two daughters, Harriet and Edna (ironically enough, Stratemeyer had been a firm believer that a woman's place was in the home).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate (817 words)

	Keene, Carolyn - Families.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1942, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams assumed full control of the Stratemeyer Writing Syndicate, which she ran from offices in New Jersey for the next forty years (until her death in 1982 at the age of eighty-nine).
		Adams had graduated in 1914 from Wellesley College, where she was editor of the school newspaper.
		In 1984, two years after Harriet Adams's death, Simon and Schuster bought the Stratemeyer Writing Syndicate, and the Nancy Drew series of books continue to be written by a stable of their writers, still under the penname Carolyn Keene.
	encyclopedias.families.com /keene-carolyn-521-ecc (495 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The brainchild of children's book mogul Edward Stratemeyer, Nancy was brought to life by two women: Mildred Wirt Benson, a pioneering journalist from Iowa, and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, a well-bred wife and mother who took over as CEO after her father died.
		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.
		Stratemeyer was just sixteen years old, but he had grown up reading the books of Oliver Optic (the nom de plume of William T. Adams) and Horatio Alger, the two predominant boys' fiction authors of the period, and the adventure-filled, rags-to-riches stories...
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0151010412/reviews (2282 words)

	The Seattle Times: Books: Nancy Drew, starring in an updated book series, has a fascinating past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The idea for Nancy was actually that of Edward Stratemeyer, Harriet's father and owner of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, which eventually launched as many as 100 book series, including those featuring Tom Swift, the Bobbsey Twins and the Hardy Boys.
		In retrospect, Stratemeyer's initial hesitation can be seen as a harbinger of the ongoing, albeit cloaked, struggle that would ensue between Benson and Adams.
		Adams, a 1914 Wellesly graduate, lived a refined life in the upper echelons of society.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/books/2001877846_kari13.html (1379 words)

	Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Harriet Adams took over the Stratemeyer syndicate after the death of her father in 1930.
		The highlight of Harriet's career as Carolyn Keene was a fifty-year anniversary celebration given by Simon and Schuster in her honor.
		All in all, Harriet's obsession with Nancy Drew is rather amusing, considering Nancy Drew is often considered to be dime-store junk, or "non" literature.
	ils.unc.edu /nancy.drew/adams.html (509 words)

	Nikhil Bendre: 08/15/2004 - 08/21/2004
		The series was created by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the publisher of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, Jr., and others.
		Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (who succeeded her father Edward as the head of the Syndicate), contributed a number of volumes and oversaw the substantial revisions begun in the fifties.
		Stratemeyer hired writers, including Mildred Benson, to write the novels in this series, who were initially were paid only $125 for each book and were required by their contract to give up all rights to the work and to maintain confidentiality.
	nikhilbendre.blogspot.com /2004_08_15_nikhilbendre_archive.html (2717 words)

	Geoffrey Lapin on Mildred Wirt Benson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stratemeyer felt that Wirt's approach to the Fielding books was an indication that his new heroine would do well in her hands.
		Stratemeyer expressed bitter disappointment when he received the manuscript, saying the heroine was much too flip, and would never be well received." Wirt's manuscript nevertheless was sent off to Alexander Grosset and George Dunlap, whose publishing house aggressively had been selling Stratemeyer's Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and Bobbsey Twins books.
		Harriet Adams and new publisher Simon and Schuster were in the spotlight.
	www.lib.uiowa.edu /spec-coll/Bai/lapin.htm (4672 words)

	Interview with Melanie Rehak, author of Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her — Harcourt
		It was there that I got the idea to write about both her and Harriet Adams because she had kept a lot of news clippings about Harriet in among her Nancy Drew files.
		Harriet and Mildred were such fascinating people, and seeing them make their way through the times in which they lived is really inspirational.
		Luckily, Mildred and Harriet were directly involved in many of the huge changes that took place, so I was able to use their personal stories to illuminate a lot of the big sweeps of history in an intimate way, which I hope puts them on a more human level and makes them more compelling.
	www.harcourtbooks.com /GirlSleuth/interview.asp (1558 words)

	Salon \| What would Nancy do? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But in 1959, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, who inherited Nancy after the death of her father in 1932, decided that if Nancy was going to continue to appeal to the daughters of her original readers, she needed some freshening up.
		It's worth asking why it took Harriet Adams nearly 30 years to realize that a villain pool that included "coloreds," "Orientals," "misers" with "hooked noses," household help and transients might cause some people to look askance at her darling cash cow.
		The revised editions read like porn: Stratemeyer held her finger on the fast-forward button to cut straight to the action, slowing down just long enough to add exclamation points and physical descriptions of people, rooms and food, with character, scene and dialogue pared to such a minimum that the books barely make sense.
	archive.salon.com /mwt/feature/1999/10/07/nancydrew/print.html (1960 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stratemeyer sent him outlines, cautioning McFarlane to remember that these books were less flashy than their cheaper counterparts: “You perhaps understand our cloth books go in a different field from the paper volumes and the stories are not quite so melodramatic.” The books were to be two hundred and sixteen pages and twenty-five chapters.
		Stratemeyer had signed up a young college graduate named Mildred Wirt, and he sent her the outline of “The Secret of the Old Clock.” Wirt went on to write twenty-three of the first thirty Nancy Drews.
		In 1930, the syndicate was inherited by Stratemeyer’s daughters, Edna Stratemeyer and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/critics/041108crat_atlarge (4674 words)

	Bobbsey Twins Formats
		Stratemeyer was furious at the poor showing by Chatterton-Peck and forbade them to publish any more of his books.
		Stratemeyer made arrangements to have his lines published by a relatively new firm, Grosset and Dunlap.
		Naturally, Chatterton-Peck was upset that Stratemeyer would pull his books and offer them to another publisher and there were a number of lawsuits and counter suits which extended into 1908.
	www.keeline.com /Bobbsey (1968 words)

	Twisted History, One Day at a Time - 4 October 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stratemeyer built a fiction factory, sketching plots that others wrote for a flat fee, and selling millions.
		After he died his syndicate was continued by his daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, who continued to grow the series for decades.
		A newspaper publisher who had gained wealth by first making paper from wood pulp criticized President John Adams' "continual grasp for power" and his "unbounded thirst for ridiculous pomp, foolish adulation, and selfish avarice." The sentence was four months in jail and $1,000 fine, he was easily reelected while in prison.
	www.twistedhistory.com /issues/october/1004.html (1235 words)

	At 70 years old, Nancy Drew still touches readers - 11/03/05
		Stratemeyer had given up his own writing career to oversee his publishing business, handing over story outlines to a stable of ghostwriters who wrote under the names Laura Lee Hope (The Bobbsey Twins), Franklin W. Dixon (The Hardy Boys) and Victor Appleton (Tom Swift).
		Adams' efforts to perpetuate the Carolyn Keene-is-a-real-person myth were so successful that in the 1940s the Authors Guild asked the make-believe author to join their membership.
		While Adams did write some titles in the 1960s and 70s, her denouement came in 1980 when Benson testified in a widely covered trial between the Stratemeyer Syndicate/Simon & Schuster and Grosset & Dunlap that she, in fact, was Nancy Drew's original author.
	www.detnews.com /2005/books/0511/03/ent-369998.htm (1214 words)

	Nancy Drew
		As years passed, Adams began to encourage the belief that she was the real "Carolyn Keene." Feminists sang her praises and women's colleges gave her honorary degrees.
		Unlike Benson, Adams was strongly anti-feminist, a stance she shared with her father who would not allow her in the office because he felt women shouldn't hold paying jobs.
		Stratemeyer's death thrust Adams into the business, and her sister's departure left her to write the story outlines.
	home.earthlink.net /~ggghostie/drew.html (1677 words)

	MYSTERY GIRL / Uncovering the hidden history of a pre-feminist icon
		Mildred and Harriet were as opposite as Betty and Veronica, and their personalities are reflected in the changing tone of the books over the decades.
		When Harriet took over the series in the '50s, Nancy became more demure, less inclined to use slang or talk back, and more concerned with the affections of her perennial boyfriend, Ned Nickerson.
		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&feed=rss.news (1360 words)

	Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonyms
		In addition, the founder of the Syndicate, Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) is known to have used many pseudonyms (either by his choice or the publishers of his stories in story papers, dime novels, or in book form).
		This article seems to take the same viewpoint of "official" Stratemeyer Syndicate legends which indicate that the owners of the Syndicate were the main authors and ignoring the ghostwriters who made the volumes a reality.
		I readily admit that Stratemeyer took the risks and deserved to reap any rewards for the success that his series made but it is wrong to ignore the dozens of ghostwriters.
	www.trussel.com /books/strat.htm (1664 words)

	The Judy Bolton/Margaret Sutton Articles Archive
		Harriet Stratemeyer Adams persistently and irritatingly asserts that SHE, in fact, is the actual author of Nancy Drew.
		Beyond this, though, there are many additional facts about the Stratemeyer Syndicate itself that are, to say the least, not very prepossessing, and foremost among these is the simple truth that the Syndcate is to part responsible for driving many other mystery-adventure series for young readers off the market.
		The answer is simple: because Nancy Drew was written by the Stratemeyer Syndicate headed by Harriet Adams, the company had more power than a single author and were able to influence the publishers more.
	www.judybolton.com /jbkent.html (978 words)

	The Hindu : Mystery solved?
		Harriet Stratemeyer Adams let it be known that Carolyn Keene was her pseudonym and she was credited with having written all the Nancy Drew books between 1930 and 1982, the year of her death.
		Although Harriet did write a few of the Nancy Drew stories in her later years, after 1953, that was long after the character of Nancy Drew was firmly established.
		Most authors, including Mildred Benson, took the oath and the contract seriously and never thought of letting out the truth when Harriet Adams told the world that she was the author of the Nancy Drew series.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/yw/2002/03/30/stories/2002033000130300.htm (676 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)

	www.reviewingtheevidence.com \| GIRL SLEUTH, by Melanie Rehak
		In a world where finances were collapsing and women weren't taken seriously as businesspeople, Harriet and her sister Edna had just inherited the largest publishing juggernaut in America -- a property which included an up-and-coming author named Mildred Wirt.
		Mildred and Harriet (mostly Harriet) ushered their charge from an era of white gloves, 50-cent novels, racism, and "marrying up" to blue jeans, paperbacks, political correctness, and feminism.
		Rehak not only covers the familiar territory of Harriet's rewrites of Mildred's material, but also Harriet's approaches to alternative adaptations of Nancy from the 30s B-movies, the parodies, the television show, and its scandalous aftermath.
	www.reviewingtheevidence.com /review.html?id=5344 (509 words)

	F. W. DIXON - CARD SIGNED
		In 1926, Edward Stratemeyer, who had been writing children's stories for 40 years, sold an idea to Grosset and Dunlap, his syndicate's publishers: "Detective stories are as interesting to boys as grown folks.
		Harriet signed this card with the pen name used for the Hardy Boys series, which she began revising in 1959, making the books shorter (down to 20 chapters from 25) and updating them for a new generation of readers.
		Harriet, who died in 1982, had been a major contributor to other syndicate lines, including the Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew books.
	www.galleryofhistory.com /archive/5_2002/authors/F_W_DIXON.htm (280 words)

	Untitled
		No one ever accused Edward Stratemeyer of being a feminist, but he knew that female children were a large part of the reading market, and he wanted to tap them.
		Unfortunately, Edward Stratemeyer died a few months after the first Nancy Drews were published, and he never realized the extent of their success.
		Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, the CEO of the Syndicate who dictated all aspects of the Nancy Drew formula, died in the early 1980s.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/955/32991 (834 words)

	Lost Classics - Stratemeyer Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edward Stratemeyer, the son of a German immigrant, was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, on October 4, 1862.
		John T. 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.lcbcbooks.com /bios/stratemeyer.htm (313 words)

	Dana Girls Mystery Stories
		Harriet S. Adams took over writing the Dana Girls series at about the same time that she took over writing all of the Nancy Drew books.
		The Danas are orphans whose guardians are their Aunt Harriet and Uncle Ned, who are brother and sister and live together.
		Uncle Ned is a reference to Edward Stratemeyer, who founded the Stratemeyer Syndicate, an organization that supplied publishers with stories for publication.
	www.geocities.com /brmthebgs/danagirls/danamain.html (734 words)

	The History of Nancy Drew
		The Stratemeyer Syndicate's devotion to the series over the years under the reigns of Harriet Stratemeyer Adams helped to keep the series alive and on store shelves for each succeeding generation of girls and boys.
		Harriet's dedication to the series helped tremendously in ensuring that Nancy is still around today and likely will be for many years to come.
		Harriet Stratemeyer Adams begins what will be a nearly 20 year revision project for the first 34 volumes.
	www.nancydrewsleuth.com /history.html (2697 words)

	Style & Whimsy
		She was bound by an agreement with the publisher not to publicly reveal her identity as the series author, but it became known in 1980 when she testified in a court case involving Nancy Drew's publisher.
		Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, the daughter of the founder of the chain and long-time publisher, had taken credit for the authorship, even accepting honorary degrees from universities for her pioneering "feminism," although when the books were being written, she constantly urged Benson to make Nancy more obedient and tame.
		At the 1980 trial, it was reported that Adams saw Mildred Benson in the hallway, paled, and said, "I thought you were dead." Benson lived to see the truth prevail.
	www.egamegazette.net /style.html (2043 words)

	boys clothing: American children's literature types -- series the Bobbsey Twins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Stratemeyer was believed to have written the first three books.
		When Stratemeyer died in 1930, his daughter Harriet Stratemeyer Adams began managing the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
		Stratemeyer was also associated with many of the other important series of American children's literature.
	histclo.hispeed.com /lit/child/nat/us/ser/is/is-bobb.html (1340 words)

	Hardy Boys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate created the plot outlines, while Leslie McFarlane wrote 18 of the first 24 books in the series, all under the pen-name Franklin W. Dixon.
		(Some later books were also written by Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams, daughter of Edward Stratemeyer).
		In 1959, the first 38 titles were revised, "revisions ranged from slight alteration to completely new stories.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/ha/hardy_boys.html (400 words)

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