Edward Stratemeyer
Edward Stratemeyer (October 4th 1862 - May 10th 1930) was an American writer. Native of Elizabeth to the New Jersey, it wrote and published several series of books for children, of which the Hardy Boys, the Jumeaux Bobbsey, Nancy Drew, the Rober Servant boys and the series of Tom Swift, among others.
Stratemeyer developed the technique which consisted in producing elaborate long series of books by using a team of independent writers, who published under a Pen name had by his own company.
With its Agency Stratemeyer, it produced short summaries of intrigues, which it sent to other authors to supplement the account, each one writing a number of chapters and pages dictated in advance. Each book was to start by introducing the characters and was to be stopped by a cliffhanger and a recall of the preceding books of the series.
Its works were produced in the only reason for the entertainment and did not make lessons in morals, which was then new in literature. Its detective novels granted much place to the mystery and idealized the heroes and heroins.
Srtatemeyer is buried with the cemetery Evergreen de Hillside with the New Jersey.
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