Question

First introduced in 1927, The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories are a series of books about the adventures of

brothers Frank and Joe Hardy, teenaged detectives who solve one baffling mystery after another. The Hardy

Boys were so popular among young boys that in 1930 a similar series was created for girls featuring a sixteenyear-old detective named Nancy Drew. The cover of each volume of The Hardy Boys states that the author of

the series is Franklin W. Dixon; the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories are supposedly written by Carolyn Keene.

Over the years, though, many fans of both series have been surprised to find out that Franklin W. Dixon and

Carolyn Keene are not real people. If Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene never existed, then who wrote

The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew mysteries?

The Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew books were written through a process called ghostwriting. A

ghostwriter writes a book according to a specific formula. While ghostwriters are paid for writing the books,

their authorship is not acknowledged, and their names do not appear on the published books .Ghostwriters can

write books for children or adults, the content of which is unspecific. Sometimes they work on book series

with a lot of individual titles, such as The Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series.

The initial idea for both the Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series was developed by a man named

Edward Stratemeyer, who owned a publishing company that specialized in children’s books. Stratemeyer

noticed the increasing popularity of mysteries among adults, and surmised that children would enjoy reading

mysteries about younger detectives with whom they could identify. Stratemeyer first developed each book

with an outline describing the plot and setting. Once he completed the outline, Stratemeyer then hired a

ghostwriter to convert it into a book of slightly over 200 pages. After the ghostwriter had written a draft of a

book, he or she would send it back to Stratemeyer, who would make a list of corrections and mail it back to

the ghostwriter. The ghostwriter would revise the book according to Stratemeyer’s instructions and then return

it to him. Once Stratemeyer approved the book, it was ready for publication. Because each series ran for so

many years, Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys both had a number of different ghostwriters producing books;

however, the first ghostwriter for each series proved to be the most influential. The initial ghostwriter for The

Hardy Boys was a Canadian journalist named Leslie McFarlane.

A few years later, Mildred A. Wirt, a young writer from Iowa, began writing the Nancy Drew books.

Although they were using prepared outlines as guides, both McFarlane and Wirt developed the characters

themselves. The personalities of Frank and Joe Hardy and Nancy Drew arose directly from McFarlane’s and

Wirt’s imaginations. For example, Mildred Wirt had been a star college athlete and gave Nancy similar athletic

abilities. The ghostwriters were also responsible for numerous plot and setting details. Leslie McFarlane used

elements of his small Canadian town to create Bayport, the Hardy Boys fictional hometown.

On the basis of your reading of the above passage, fill in the blanks with appropriate words / phrases:

1) The ‘Hardy Boys’ mystery stories are a series of books that contain__________________

2) _________ was a similar series created like ‘The Hardy Boys’ created for the girls.

3) The process of writing the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew was called ______________

4) The initial idea for both the Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series was developed

by______________________________

5) The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books were created based on the idea that

children___________________________

6) Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys both had a number of different ghostwriters producing

books___________

7) The personalities of Frank and Joe Hardy and Nancy Drew arose directly from

__________and___________ imaginations.

8) The ghostwriters were responsible for __________ plot and _________ details.

Answer 1

1) The ‘Hardy Boys’ mystery stories are a series of books that contain stories about the adventures of the Hardy Brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy.

2) Nancy Drew was a similar series created like ‘The Hardy Boys’ created for the girls.

3) The process of writing the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew was called ghostwriting.

4) The initial idea for both the Hardy Boys and the Nancy Drew series was developed  by Edward Stratemeyer.

5) The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books were created based on the idea that  children could relate and identify with younger detective characters.

6) Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys both had a number of different ghostwriters producing  books that are influential.

7) The personalities of Frank and Joe Hardy and Nancy Drew arose directly from  Leslie McFarlane's and Mildred A. Wirt's imaginations.

8) The ghostwriters were responsible for numerous plot and setting details.

Explanation:

The famous children's story series "The Hardy Boys" contain stories of the adventures of Frank and Joe Hardy. Similarly, "Nancy Drew" also came into existence later on. Both of these series were a result of the process of ghostwriting, where the author of the book is unknown, despite the presence of a 'presumed' author in the books.

Both of these book series was developed by a man named Edward Stratemeyer, who owns a publishing company and also produces children's books. These were believed to be based on the belief that children would connect and identify with detective stories that have younger characters to which they can easily relate to. So, both of these books have ghostwriters who produce books that are influential.

But the real ghostwriters, the ideas, and all things related were a result of the imagination of the real writers Leslie McFarlane and Mildred A. Wirt. And like most ghostwriters, they are also responsible for the numerous plots and settings of their stories, even though they get prepared outlines from Stratemeyer.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

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