Leslie McFarlane | |
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Born | Charles Leslie McFarlane October 25, 1902 Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada |
Died | September 6, 1977 Oshawa, Ontario, Canada | (aged 74)
Pen name | Franklin W. Dixon, Carolyn Keene |
Occupation | novelist, screenwriter, journalist, filmmaker |
Genre | Young adult adventure fiction |
Notable works | Hardy Boys series |
Children | Brian McFarlane |
Charles Leslie McFarlane (October 25, 1902 – September 6, 1977)[1] was a Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful Hardy Boys series, using the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon.[2]