Franklin W. Dixon is the

pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...

used by a variety of different authors who were part of a team that wrote

The Hardy Boys The Hardy Boys, brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens. The series revolves around teenagers who are amateur sleuths, solving cases that stumped their adult counterp ...

novels for the

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(now owned by

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). Dixon was also the writer attributed for the ''

Ted Scott Flying Stories The ''Ted Scott Flying Stories'' was a series of juvenile aviation adventures created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate using the pseudonym of Franklin W. Dixon (also used for ''The Hardy Boys'') and published almost exclusively by Grosset & Dunlap. The ...

'' series, published by

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. Canadian author

Charles Leslie McFarlane Charles Leslie McFarlane (October 25, 1902 – September 6, 1977) was a Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful ''Hardy Boys'' series, using ...

is believed to have written the first sixteen Hardy Boys books, but worked to a detailed plot and character outline for each story. The outlines are believed to originated with

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, with later books outlined by his daughters Edna C. Squier and

Harriet Adams Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (December 12, 1892 – March 27, 1982) was an American juvenile book packager, children's novelist, and publisher who was responsible for some 200 books over her literary career. She wrote the plot outlines for many boo ...

. Edward and Harriet also edited all books in the series through the mid-1960s. Other writers of the original books include MacFarlane's wife Amy, John Button,

Andrew E. Svenson Andrew E. Svenson (May 8, 1910 – August 21, 1975) was an American children's author, publisher, and partner in the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Under a variety of pseudonyms, many shared with other authors, Svenson authored or coauthored more t ...

, as well as Adams herself; most of the outlines were done by Adams and Svenson. A number of other writers and editors were recruited to revise the outlines and update the texts in line with a more modern sensibility, starting in the late 1950s. The principal author for the Ted Scott books was John W. Duffieldhttps://www.fadedpage.com/csearch.php?author=Duffield,%20J.%20W.%20(John%20William)

Bibliography

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

''The Hardy Boys'' series

*'' The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories'' (1927–2005) *'' Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: Be a Detective Mystery Stories'' (1984–1985) *'' The Hardy Bibles'' (1987–1998) *'' Hardy Boys and Tom Swift Ultra Thriller'' (1992–1993) *'' The Hardy Boys are: The Clues Brothers'' (1997–2000) *'' The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers'' (2005–2012) *'' The Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers Super Mystery'' (2006–2007) *'' Undercover Brothers Graphic Novels'' (2005–2010) *'' Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Mystery'' (with

Carolyn Keene 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. In addition, the Keene pen name is credited with the Nancy Drew spin-off, ''River H ...

) (2007) * ''Hardy Boys Clue Book'' (2016)

Other series

*''

'' (1927–1943) *''

Joanna Brady stories Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from from he, יוֹחָנָה, translit=Yôḥānāh, lit=God is gracious. Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jan, Jane, Janet, Jani ...

'' by Judith Jance: Joanna's second husband is Franklin W. Dixon, a writer who has to use a pseudonym because his real name has been pre-empted by the house-name for the Hardy Boys authors.

Individual books

*''

The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook ''The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook'' is a special volume in the original Hardy Boys book series published by Grosset & Dunlap. The book is composed of several didactic short fictional stories illustrating various actual crime detection methods ...

'' (1959) *''The Hardy Boys Handbook: Seven Stories of Survival'' (1980) *''Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Sleuths'' (with Carolyn Keene) (1981) *''Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Super Sleuths #2'' (with Carolyn Keene) (1984) *''Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys Campfire Stories'' (with Carolyn Keene) (1984) *''The Hardy Boys Ghost Stories'' (1984) *''Hardy Boys Adventures'' (2014)

References in other works

* In
The Jealous Kind
' by

James Lee Burke James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series. He has won Edgar Awards for ''Black Cherry Blues'' (1990) and ''Cimarron Rose'' (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Master ...

, the main character, Aaron Holland Broussard, uses the alias Franklin W. Dixon.

References

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