Leslie McFarlane was a Canadian journalist and author who, under the famous pseudonym, Franklin W. Dixon, wrote the original Hardy Boys mysteries for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. McFarlane died in 1977.
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In 1926, twenty-three-year-old cub newspaper reporter Leslie McFarlane responded to an ad: 'Experienced Fiction Writer Wanted.' The ad was signed by Edward Stratemeyer, whose syndicate effectively invented mass-market children's book publishing in America... SEE MORE