He wrote in excess of 1300 books himself, selling in excess of 500 million copies[2], and created the well-known fictional book series for juveniles including The Rover Boys (starting in 1899), The Bobbsey Twins (starting in 1904), Tom Swift (starting in 1910), The Hardy Boys (starting in 1927), and the Nancy Drew (starting in 1930) series, among others. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Edward Stratemeyer was born to Henry J. Stratemeyer (1815-1891) and Anna Siegel (1828-1905) on October 4, 1862. He was the youngest son of Henry, who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1837.2 The Stratemeyer family came from a distinguished line of “scholars, churchmen and musicians.”3 As a boy, Edward Stratemeyer (1862-1930) was an enthusiastic reader of the works of Horatio Alger, Jr. (1834-1899) and “Oliver Optic” (William T. Adams (1822-1897)). He is said to have declared that if he could write stories like those of his favorite writers, he would be the happiest person alive.
In 1893, Stratemeyer was hired by the popular dime-novel writer Gilbert Patten to write for the Street & Smith publication Good News.[3] Stratemeyer pioneered the technique of producing long-running, consistent series of books using a team of freelance writers to write standardized books, which were published under a pen name owned by his company.
Through his Stratemeyer Syndicate, founded in 1906, Stratemeyer employed a massive number of editors, copy writers, stenographers, co-authors, and secretaries. With their help, he greatly contributed to a new genre of juvenile fiction.[4]
He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Hillside, New Jersey.
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