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    Is Franklin W. Dixon a real person?

    Question #86532. Asked by apathy100. (Sep 27 07 4:37 PM)


    geniusonwheels

    		Franklin W. Dixon, no.
    It is a pen name.

    The pen name is given to the author of the Hardy Boys series and the Ted Scott Flying Stories.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_W._Dixon

    Sep 27 07, 4:49 PM
    zbeckabee

    		"Although he is said to be the author of every Hardy Boys book, there is actually no writer named Franklin W. Dixon. There never has been. For that matter, neither was there ever a Carolyn Keene, nor a Victor Appleton. These are all pen names for a group of writers established by a man named Edward Stratemeyer."


    http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/5567/history.html



    Sep 27 07, 8:02 PM
    bigponder

    		Let's give Leslie McFarlane some credit here. As those two sites indicate, he wrote the first 16 books in the Hardy Boys series and a few of the later ones.

    Sep 27 07, 8:59 PM

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