Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1892-1982) US author and, after the death of her father Edward Stratemeyer in 1930, editor of his publishing syndicate. Under a variety of house names, including Carolyn Keene, Franklin W Dixon and Laura Lee Hope, she was herself responsible for writing approximately 170 of the Stratemeyer Syndicate novels about the Bobbsey Twins, the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and others; for further titles, she supplied plots and outlines. Under the House Name Victor Appleton she wrote the last three volumes in the first series of Tom Swift books – beginning with Tom Swift and His Television Detector (1933) [see Checklist] – and also successfully revived Tom Swift, or, to be more accurate, his son Tom Swift, Jr., in a new series which began publication in 1954 (see Tom Swift for details). [JC]
Harriet Stratemeyer Adams
born Newark, New Jersey: 11 December 1892
died Pottersville, New Jersey: 27 March 1982
works
- Tom Swift and His Television Detector; or, Trailing the Secret Plotters (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1933) [hb/]
- Tom Swift and His Ocean Airport; or, Foiling the Haargolanders (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1934) [hb/]
- Tom Swift and His Planet Stone; or, Discovering the Secret of Another World (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1935) [hb/]
about the author
- Deirdre Johnson, editor. Stratemeyer Pseudonyms and Series Books: An Annotated Checklist of Stratemeyer and Stratemeyer Syndicate Publications (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982) [bibliography: hb/]
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