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Franklin W. Dixon Biography

The Hardy Boys series, like most of the books produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, is a joint effort of in-house editors and ghost writers.

Behind the Hardy Boys, though, stood the figure of Edward Stratemeyer, who created the characters and devised an ingenious way to mass-produce and mass-distribute these inexpensive books for early adolescents. As ghost writer Leslie McFarlane said, Stratemeyer was "a Henry Ford of fiction for boys and girls." The series Stratemeyer originated has achieved an enduring place in the hearts and minds of millions of readers.

Edward Stratemeyer was born on October 4, 1862, in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

He received a high school education that was rounded out by private tutoring, and began writing stories in 1886 simply to pass the time while working in his brother's local tobacco store. One slow afternoon when few customers had come around, Stratemeyer started scrawling out a...

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Franklin W. Dixon

The Tower Treasure (The Hardy Boys, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 19,027 ratings — published 1927 — 184 editions

The House on the Cliff (The Hardy Boys, #2)

3.95 avg rating — 11,186 ratings — published 1927 — 160 editions

The Secret of the Old Mill (The Hardy Boys, #3)

3.90 avg rating — 9,076 ratings — published 1927 — 189 editions

The Missing Chums (The Hardy Boys, #4)

3.92 avg rating — 7,678 ratings — published 1928 — 126 editions

Hunting for Hidden Gold (The Hardy Boys, #5)

3.93 avg rating — 6,726 ratings — published 1928 — 110 editions

The Secret of the Caves (The Hardy Boys, #7)

3.91 avg rating — 6,020 ratings — published 1929 — 77 editions

The Shore Road Mystery (The Hardy Boys, #6)
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3.90 avg rating — 5,469 ratings — published 1928 — 75 editions

While the Clock Ticked (The Hardy Boys, #11)

3.97 avg rating — 5,199 ratings — published 1932 — 49 editions

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Franklin W. Dixon, is the pen name or house name that has been used for all Hardy Boys books, except for the graphic novels, and Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys SuperMystery (with house name Carolyn Keene used for the crossover title).

An interview with two authors then writing under the name of Dixon was published in a 1995 edition of Boy's Life magazine. Both authors remained anonymous (Mr. X and Mr. Y), stating they were sworn to secrecy to protect the pen name.

A tribute to Franklin W. Dixon was found in the second-person narrative "Choose Your Own Adventure" book Longhorn Territory, where the reader is given the option to work as a rider for the Pony Express. One of the station masters is named Frank Dixon.

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The following series or books have been published under the Franklin W. Dixon name:

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The Hardy Boys series[]

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Ted Scott Flying Stories (1927-1943)

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Many different authors have written under the pseudonym, while most still are not known, some have been revealed. Below is a li