Edward Stratemeyer hired Mildred Benson in 1926 to assist in expanding his roughly-drafted stories in order to satisfy increasing demand for his series.

Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Syndicate, hired writers, beginning with Mildred Wirt, later Mildred Wirt Benson, to write the manuscripts for the Nancy Drew books.

In 1893, Stratemeyer was hired by the popular dime-novel writer Gilbert Patten to write for the Street & Smith publication Good News.

Benson declined series work when the Depression forced a reduction in the contract fee provided to Stratemeyer Syndicate writers, so Karig was hired.

Franklin W. Dixon is the pen name used by a variety of different authors ( Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author, being the first ) who wrote The Hardy Boys novels for the Stratemeyer Syndicate ( now owned by Simon & Schuster ).

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1929.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1945.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1927.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1934, purportedly by Leslie McFarlane however the writing style is noticeably different from other books in the series known to have been written by McFarlane.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1927.

He did this by taking the original 1927 edition and stripping out all the details to form an outline of the story similar to, in his opinion, the outline Leslie McFarlane would have received from the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1927.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1928.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1928.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1928.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1929.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1930.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1931.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1932.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1933, purportedly by Leslie McFarlane ; however, the writing style is noticeably different from other books in the series known to have been written by McFarlane.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1935, purportedly by Leslie McFarlane ; however, the writing style is noticeably different from other books in the series known to have been written by McFarlane.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1936.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1937.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate in collaboration by John Button and Leslie McFarlane in 1938.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1943.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Leslie McFarlane in 1944.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Amy McFarlane, the wife of long time Hardy Boys author Leslie McFarlane, in 1947.

Note that this would not likely have been permitted in the original, for ( as McFarlane writes in " Ghost of the Hardy Boys " ) Stratemeyer expected the girls to make only occasional appearances and to have relationships with the boys that " would not go beyond the borders of wholesome friendship and discreet mutual esteem.

Writing under Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name Carolyn Keene from 1929 to 1947, she contributed to 23 of the first 25 originally published Nancy Drew mysteries.

Created by Edward Stratemeyer, the Stratemeyer Syndicate was the first book packager to have its books aimed at children, rather than adults.

The first series that Stratemeyer created was the Rover Boys, published under the pseudonym Arthur M. Winfield.

Stratemeyer began writing other series books: The Bobbsey Twins first appeared in 1904, under the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope, and Tom Swift in 1910, under the pseudonym Victor Appleton.

Some time in the first decade of the twentieth century Stratemeyer realized that he could no longer juggle multiple volumes of multiple series, and he began hiring ghostwriters, such as Howard Garis.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

Edward Stratemeyer's daughter, Edna Stratemeyer Squier, and possibly Stratemeyer himself, wrote outlines for the first volumes in the series.

Edward Stratemeyer himself is believed to have written the first volume in its original form in 1904.

In the original editions, the first books in the series ( like those in previous Stratemeyer series ) took place in a clear chronology, with the characters aging as time passed.

This book was written for the Stratemeyer Syndicate by Andrew E. Svenson and first published in 1971.

The first title, The Mansion of Mystery, was written by Edward Stratemeyer and the rest were ghostwritten.

One book from the Ted Scott series appears to be the first Stratemeyer Syndicate book to be reprinted in a foreign country and language, in the first half of the 1930s.

Edward Stratemeyer and Howard Garis wrote most of the volumes in the original series ; Stratemeyer's daughter, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, wrote the last three volumes.

In the 1950s, Harriet ( by now Harriet Stratemeyer Adams ) began substantially revising old volumes in the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, updating them by removing references to " roadster " and the like.

In 1987, Simon and Schuster purchased the syndicate from its partners-Edward Stratemeyer Adams, Camilla Adams McClave, Patricia Adams Harr, Nancy Axelrod and Lilo Wuenn-and turned to Mega-Books, a book packager, to handle the writing process for new volumes.

Speculation that Stratemeyer also wrote the second and third volumes of the series is believed to be incorrect ; these books are now attributed to Lilian Garis, wife of Howard Garis, who is credited with volumes 4 – 28 and 41.

Elizabeth Ward is credited with volumes 29 – 35, while Harriet Stratemeyer Adams is credited with 36 – 38, 39 ( with Camilla McClave ), 40, 42, 43 ( with Andrew Svenson ), and 44 – 48.

In 1960, the Stratemeyer syndicate began to rewrite most of the older volumes, many of which became almost unrecognizable in the process.