Stratemeyer Syndicate, the Glossary
The Stratemeyer Syndicate was a publishing company that produced a number of mystery book series for children, including Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift series, the Bobbsey Twins, the Rover Boys, and others.[1]
Table of Contents
32 relations: Bobbsey Twins, Book packaging, Boy Scouts of America, Chester K. Steele, Don Sturdy, Edward Stratemeyer, Ghostwriter, Grosset & Dunlap, Harriet Adams, Howard R. Garis, Josephine Lawrence, Laura Lee Hope, Leslie McFarlane, List of Stratemeyer Syndicate series, Mildred Benson, Nancy Drew, New York Public Library, Plot (narrative), Rover Boys, Ruth Fielding, Simon & Schuster, Streisand effect, Ted Scott Flying Stories, The Dana Girls, The Happy Hollisters, The Hardy Boys, The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion, The Secret at Shadow Ranch, Tom Swift, Tom Swift Jr., Victor Appleton, Walter Karig.
- Book packagers
Bobbsey Twins
The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was, for 75 years, the Stratemeyer Syndicate's longest-running series of American children's novels, written under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope.
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Book packaging
Book packaging (or book producing) is a publishing activity in which a publishing company outsources the myriad tasks involved in putting together a book—writing, researching, editing, illustrating, and even printing—to an outside company called a book-packaging company.
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Boy Scouts of America
tag and place it alphabetically by ref name.
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Chester K. Steele
Chester K. Steele was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for a series of mystery books.
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Don Sturdy
Don Sturdy is a fictional character in the Don Sturdy series of 15 American children's adventure novels published between 1925 and 1935 by Grosset & Dunlap.
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Edward Stratemeyer
Edward L. Stratemeyer (October 4, 1862 – May 10, 1930) was an American publisher, writer of children's fiction and founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
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Ghostwriter
A ghostwriter is a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are putatively credited to another person as the author.
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Grosset & Dunlap
Grosset & Dunlap is a New York City-based publishing house founded in 1898.
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Harriet Adams
Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (December 12, 1892 – March 27, 1982) was an American juvenile book packager, children's novelist, and publisher who was responsible for some 200 books over her literary career. Stratemeyer Syndicate and Harriet Adams are book packagers.
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Howard R. Garis
Howard Roger Garis (–) was an American author, best known for a series of books that featured the character of Uncle Wiggily Longears, an engaging elderly rabbit.
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Josephine Lawrence
Josephine Lawrence (1889–1978) was an American storyteller, novelist and journalist.
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Laura Lee Hope
Laura Lee Hope is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and several other series of children's novels.
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Leslie McFarlane
Charles Leslie McFarlane (October 25, 1902 – September 6, 1977) was a Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful Hardy Boys series, using the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon.
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List of Stratemeyer Syndicate series
This list of Stratemeyer Syndicate series gives the titles of all series produced by the book packaging firm the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
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Mildred Benson
Mildred Augustine Wirt Benson (July 10, 1905 – May 28, 2002) was an American journalist and writer of children's books.
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Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew is a fictional character appearing in several mystery book series, movies, video games, and a TV show as a teenage amateur sleuth.
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New York Public Library
The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.
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Plot (narrative)
In a literary work, film, or other narrative, the plot is the sequence of events in which each event affects the next one through the principle of cause-and-effect.
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Rover Boys
The Rover Boys, or The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans, was a popular juvenile series written by Arthur M. Winfield, a pseudonym for Edward Stratemeyer.
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Ruth Fielding
The Ruth Fielding books were an early Stratemeyer Syndicate series, published between 1913 and 1934 under the pseudonym Alice B. Emerson.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
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Streisand effect
The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
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Ted Scott Flying Stories
The Ted Scott Flying Stories was a series of juvenile aviation adventures created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate using the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon (also used for The Hardy Boys) and published almost exclusively by Grosset & Dunlap.
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The Dana Girls
The Dana Girls was a series of young adult mystery novels produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
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The Happy Hollisters
The Happy Hollisters is a series of books about a family who loves to solve mysteries.
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The Hardy Boys
The Hardy Boys, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens.
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The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion
The Mystery at the Moss-Covered Mansion is the eighteenth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series published by Grosset & Dunlap, and was first published in 1941.
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The Secret at Shadow Ranch
The Secret at Shadow Ranch is the fifth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series.
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Tom Swift
Tom Swift is the main character of six series of American juvenile science fiction and adventure novels that emphasize science, invention, and technology.
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Tom Swift Jr.
Tom Swift Jr. is the central character in a series of 33 science fiction adventure novels for male adolescents, following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift ("Senior") novels.
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Victor Appleton
Victor Appleton was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and its successors, most famous for being associated with the Tom Swift series of books.
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Walter Karig
Walter Karig (November 13, 1898 – September 30, 1956) was a prolific writer, who served as a US naval captain.
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See also
Book packagers
- Alloy Entertainment
- Andrew Fluegelman
- Ben M. Baglio
- Bolder Media
- Byron Preiss
- DK (publisher)
- Harriet Adams
- John Boswell (publishing-business figure)
- Martin H. Greenberg
- Melcher Media
- Myriad Editions
- Stratemeyer Syndicate
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate
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