Stratemeyer created many well-known characters such as The Hardy Boys,
The Bobbsey Twins, The Rover Boys, Nancy Drew and others.
Father of the popular novelist 'Harriet Adams', who wrote under the name
Carolyn Keene, a pseudonym for the many authors who have contributed to
the Nancy Drew series.
Son of a German immigrant, he wrote an estimated 160 books under his
many pseudonyms (which include Oliver Optic and Horatio Algers, Jr.),
perhaps 60 under his own name, and outlined stories for about 800
more.