The character was created by Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging firm.

The character of Tom Swift was conceived in 1910 by Edward Stratemeyer, founder of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, a book-packaging company.

The rights to the Tom Swift character, along with the Stratemeyer Syndicate, were sold in 1984 to publishers Simon and Schuster.

Stratemeyer Syndicate employee Andrew Svenson described the new series as based " on scientific fact and probability, whereas the old Toms were in the main adventure stories mixed with pseudo-science ".

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.

Published book rights for the Nancy Drew series were owned by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and are currently owned by Simon & Schuster.

With only this, and without access to the Stratemeyer Syndicate archives now held at the New York Public Library, the public presumed that she had a primary authorship claim to the Nancy Drew stories and pen name, Carolyn Keene, who also " wrote " the Dana Girls series.

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Carolyn Keene is the pseudonym of the authors of the Nancy Drew mystery stories and The Dana Girls mystery stories, both produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

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 1978, the Stratemeyer Syndicate changed publishers to Simon & Schuster, a move that the former publishers, Grosset and Dunlap, went to court to prevent the switch, claiming a breach of contract.

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

The Syndicate was wildly successful ; at one time it was believed that the overwhelming majority of the books children read in the USA were Stratemeyer Syndicate books, based on a 1922 study of over 36, 000 children country-wide.

At a time when most children's books were aimed at moral instruction, the Stratemeyer Syndicate specialized in producing books that were meant primarily to be entertaining.

In founding the Stratemeyer Syndicate, Edward Stratemeyer aimed to produce books in an efficient, assembly-line fashion and to write them in such a way as to maximize their popularity.

In 1930, Stratemeyer died, and the Syndicate was inherited by his two daughters, Harriet Stratemeyer and Edna Stratemeyer Squier.

As early as 1914, Edward Stratemeyer proposed making a Tom Swift film ; no film, however, was made.

The character of Nancy Drew was conceived by Edward Stratemeyer who provided Wirt with index card thumbnail sketches.

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

If this was brought out under my own name, the trade on new Stratemeyer books would simply be cut into four parts instead of three.

This trend was begun in 1911, when, under the pseudonym Chester K. Steele, Stratemeyer published The Mansion of Mystery ( which he had written himself ).

In part, these changes were motivated by a desire to make the books more up-to-date ; however, Grosset & Dunlap, the primary publisher of Stratemeyer Syndicate books, requested that the books ' racism be excised, a project that Adams felt was unnecessary.

In 1901, Young Captain Jack was completed by Stratemeyer and promoted as Alger's last work.

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 ).

An important contribution to mystery fiction in the 1920s was the development of the juvenile mystery by Edward Stratemeyer.

It was the final volume edited by Edward Stratemeyer before his death.

The Dana Girls was a series of young adult mystery novels produced by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.

So successful was the series that Stratemeyer created the character of Nancy Drew as a female counterpart to the Hardys.

All royalties went to the Syndicate ; all correspondence with the publisher was handled through a Stratemeyer Syndicate office, and the Syndicate was able to enlist the cooperation of libraries in hiding the ghostwriters ' names.

Stratemeyer also published a number of books under his own name ; however, the books published under pseudonyms sold better.

Stratemeyer realized that " he could offer more books each year if he dealt with several publishers and had the books published under a number of pseudonyms which he controlled.

Through his Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded in 1906, Stratemeyer employed a massive number of editors, copy writers, stenographers, co-authors, and secretaries.

Nancy Drew is a fictional character in a juvenile fiction mystery fiction series created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer.

Harriet Stratemeyer Adams ( December 11, 1892 – March 27, 1982 ) was an American juvenile mystery novelist and publisher who authored some 200 books over her literary career.

Chester K. Steele was a house pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for a series of mystery books.

The book is part of a popular mystery series, created in 1930 by Edward Stratemeyer.

Henty, the Tom Swift series, and the Rover Boys series by Edward Stratemeyer.

Stratemeyer invented the series to capitalize on the market for children's science adventure.

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.

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

Also involved in the Nancy Drew writing process were Harriet Stratemeyer Adams's daughters, who gave input on the series and sometimes helped to choose book titles ; the Syndicate's secretary, Harriet Otis Smith, who invented the characters of Nancy's friends Bess and George ; and the editors at Grosset and Dunlap.

This desire for a series of stories could, Stratemeyer believed, be harnessed for profit.

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.

Harriet Stratemeyer introduced such series as The Dana Girls ( 1934 ), Tom Swift, Jr., The Happy Hollisters, and many others.

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.

For the Tom Swift Jr. series the books were outlined mostly by Harriet ( Stratemeyer ) Adams, head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, attributed to the pseudonymous Victor Appleton II, and published in hardcover by Grosset & Dunlap.

Stratemeyer initially pitched the new series to publishers Grosset & Dunlap and suggested that the boys might be called the Keene Boys, the Scott Boys, the Hart Boys, or the Bixby Boys.

Stratemeyer accordingly hired Canadian Leslie McFarlane to ghostwrite the first volumes in the series.