| LC control no. | n 83169423 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer |
| Variant(s) | Adams, Harriet, 1892-1982 |
| See also | For works written in collaboration with the Stratemeyer Syndicate, search also under Keene, Carolyn Keene, Carolyn Officer of: Stratemeyer Syndicate |
| Other standard no. | 0000000382397998 28452353 Q3040664 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1892-12-12 |
| Death date | 1982-03-27 |
| Place of birth | Newark (N.J.) |
| Place of death | Tewksbury (N.J. : Township) |
| Field of activity | Children's stories Ghostwriting Publishers and publishing |
| Affiliation | Stratemeyer Syndicate |
| Profession or occupation | Authors Ghostwriters |
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| Found in | Data from ALA Booklist for The Secret of Nancy Drew [MP] 1982 (Protean Productions; New York, N.Y.) Contemp. auth., via WWW, May 29, 2003 (Adams, Harriet Stratemeyer; b. Dec. 3, 1892 or 94 in Newark, N.J.; d. March 27, 1982 in Pottersville, N.J.) Wikipedia, 28 Dec. 2020 (Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, born December 12, 1892 in Newark, N.J., died March 27, 1982 in Tewksbury Township, N.J., aged 89; American juvenile book packager, children's novelist, and publisher who was responsible for some 200 books over her literary career; Adams wrote the plot outlines for many books in the Nancy Drew series, using characters invented by her father, Edward Stratemeyer; Adams also oversaw other ghostwriters who wrote for these and many other series as a part of the Stratemeyer Syndicate; she then rewrote many of the novels to update them starting in the late 1950s; with her sister, Edna, Adams took over control of the Stratemeyer Syndicate after her father Edward Stratemeyer's death in 1930; Edna ran the daily business operations, while Adams dealt with publishers and wrote; Edna became inactive after she married in 1942, and Adams took over the business; Harriet Adams is credited with keeping the Syndicate afloat through the Great Depression, and with revising the two most popular series, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, in the 1950s and 1960s, removing stereotypes and streamlining plots and characters; she ran the Syndicate successfully for 52 years) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Adams> Wikipedia, 28 Dec. 2020: in an entry for 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 Heights, and the Nancy Drew Notebooks; Mildred Wirt Benson (a.k.a. Mildred A. Wirt) is credited as the primary writer of Nancy Drew books under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene; Harriet Adams (Stratemeyer's daughter) later rewrote the original books and added new titles after the withdrawal of Ms. Benson) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Keene> |
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