Stratemeyer Family
James D. Keeline

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Contents

	Introduction
	Surnames
	Contact
	Home Card
	Index

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Introduction

Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) was probably the most influential creator of children's literature in this century. He exerted this influence not only as a writer of books, he also created ideas for books in series which were completed by hired "ghostwriters" for a flat fee and then offered to publishers on a royalty basis. Between 1904 and 1985 the Stratemeyer Syndicate produced more than 1,400 series book volumes which were written by 100 ghostwriters under about 75 different pseudonyms. The most popular series include The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Baseball Joe, and the Happy Hollisters. After Edward Stratemeyer's death on 10 May 1930, his two daughters, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams and Edna Stratemeyer (Squier), began to run the business after they could not find a suitable buyer in the midst of the Great Depression. Edna worked in the office for twelve years and created many plot outlines for series like Nancy Drew, the Dana Girls, and Kay Tracey, before moving to Florida with her husband in 1942. Her significant contribution to the Syndicate is often overlooked by researchers. Harriet had attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts and eventually became the head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate for more than fifty years until her death in 1982. Although she claimed to have written all of the Nancy Drew books after her father's death, she began writing stories 1942. The success of the Stratemeyer Syndicate books paved the way for modern successes like R.L. Stine's Goosebumps books and other mass-market paperback series. The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew continue to have new adventures as mansged by Simon & Schuster.

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Surnames

A	ADAMS, AERTSEN, ARSDALE
B	BAKER, BANNING, BEEKMAN, BELKNAP, BERGEN, BERRIEN, BLACKISTON, BODINE, BOGAERT, BOGERT, BONELL, BOUKER, BOYD, BRITAIN, BROKAW, BROOKS, BROWVER, BURBACK
C	CALSHET, CAMP, CAMPION, CHILLINGWORTH, CLARKE, CLEEF, COOK, COX
D	DAVIS, DELAMATER, DEPMAN, DICKINSON, DITMARS, DOANE, DOREN, DOUGLAS, DOUGLASS, DREW, DUMONT, DUYNE
E	ELMENDORF, ESTESS, ETNIER, EYCK
F	FISCHER, FLANAGAN, FREEMAN, FRELINGHUYSEN
G	GARRETSON, GOULD, GOW, GRANGE, GRANT, GREGG
H	HAMILTON, HARR, HARVEY, HAWKINS, HEGEMAN, HEIDRITTER, HENDRICK, HILL, HOAGLAND, HOLMAN
I	IVORY
J	JANSEN, JOHNSON, JORDAN
K	KIDD, KING, KISSERMAN, KNOX
L	LACOUR, LANE, LARSON, LEWIS, LITTELL, LITTLE LITTELL, LOHMEYER
M	MASON, MCCLAVE, MCCONAUGHY, MCGOWEN, MCKINGHT, MIDDLESWART, MIDDLESWORTH, MILLER
N	NEST, NICOLL, NITZER, NYSSEN
O	OBERT, OOOTHOUT
P	PATTON, PECK, PERLEE, PETERSON, PEYSTER, POLHEMUS, PORTER, PROBASCO
R	RAPALIE, RAPALJE, RAPALJIE, RHEA, RIDDLE, ROLL, ROSEBOOM
S	SAUMS, SCHENCK, SCUDDER, SHUART, SIEGEL, SQUIER, STAATS, STEVENS, STILLWELL, STOOTHOFF, STRATEMEYER, STRYKER, SWARTOUT, SWORDS
T	TAYLOR, TENBROOK, TEUTSCHER, TRAVERIER, TRICO, TUNISON, TUNNISON
V	VANDENBURGH, VEGHTE, VETCHEN, VOORHEES, VROOM
W	WALL, WHEELER, WHITENACK, WICKELEN, WIKOFF, WILDEY, WILLIAMSON, WILLIS, WIZZELPENNING, WOOD, WOODHULL, WRIGHT, WYCKOFF
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Contact

	james@keeline.com
	http://www.keeline.com
	5707 Spartan Dr. San Diego, CA 92115

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Created 6 Apr 2000 by Reunion, from Leister Productions, Inc.