Stratemeyer Syndicate

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The Stratemeyer Syndicate was a pioneering American book-packaging firm that created and managed popular children's series fiction, including Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, using teams of ghostwriters under collective pseudonyms.

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Stratemeyer Syndicate canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf American company
book-packaging firm
literary syndicate
businessModel book packaging
work-for-hire ghostwriting
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved 1980s
distributedBy Appleton-Century-Crofts NERFINISHED
Grosset & Dunlap NERFINISHED
Simon & Schuster NERFINISHED
employed ghostwriters
foundedBy Edward Stratemeyer NERFINISHED
founder Edward Stratemeyer NERFINISHED
genre juvenile fiction
series fiction
headquartersLocation New York City
Newark, New Jersey NERFINISHED
inception 1905
industry children's literature
publishing
influenced American children's series fiction
languageOfWork English
notableEmployee Harriet Stratemeyer Adams NERFINISHED
Leslie McFarlane NERFINISHED
notableFor creating long-running branded series
standardizing formula fiction for children
use of house pseudonyms
notableWork Nancy Drew NERFINISHED
The Bobbsey Twins NERFINISHED
The Dana Girls NERFINISHED
The Hardy Boys NERFINISHED
The Rover Boys NERFINISHED
Tom Swift NERFINISHED
operationalPeriod early 20th century
mid 20th century
parentCompany Stratemeyer Literary Syndicate NERFINISHED
primaryAudience children
young adults
publishingFormat hardcover series books
subjectOf scholarly studies on mass-market juvenile fiction
usedPseudonym Carolyn Keene NERFINISHED
Clarence Young NERFINISHED
Franklin W. Dixon NERFINISHED
Laura Lee Hope NERFINISHED
Victor Appleton NERFINISHED
writingMethod collective pseudonyms
detailed outlines for contracted writers

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Nancy Drew series producedBy Stratemeyer Syndicate
The Hardy Boys series producedBy Stratemeyer Syndicate
Tom Swift series producedBy Stratemeyer Syndicate
Bobbsey Twins series usesPseudonymOf Stratemeyer Syndicate