Charles S. Strong

"William McClellan" redirects here. For the baseball player, see Bill McClellan.

Charles S. Strong
Born(1906-11-29)November 29, 1906
Brooklyn, New York
DiedOctober 11, 1962(1962-10-11) (aged 55)
Hempstead, New York
LanguageEnglish
GenreMystery
SubjectNancy Drew

Charles Stanley Strong (November 29, 1906 – October 11, 1962) was an American writer, adventurer and explorer.

His pen names include Chuck Stanley, William McClellan, Carl Sturdy, Kelvin McKay, Nancy Bartlett, Myron Keats, Charles Stoddard, Larry Regan, the house names Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon and possibly several others.[1][2][3][4][5] His own name was used as a pseudonym for other writers, including Samuel Epstein and Beryl Williams.[6] He wrote the Hardy Boys book The Hooded Hawk Mystery[7] and the Nancy Drew book The Scarlet Slipper Mystery,[8] and once machine-gunned a shark from an airplane.[9]

  1. ^ Detecting Canada: Essays on Canadian Crime Fiction, Television, and Film Jeannette Sloniowski, Marilyn Rose; Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, March 25, 2014
  2. ^ Wisconsin Valley Library Service catalog Archived November 22, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Science Fiction Encyclopedia
  4. ^ Library of Congress Name Authority File "Keats, Myron 1906–"
  5. ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 239.
  6. ^ Publishers Weekly
  7. ^ Who Wrote the Hardy Boys? Secrets from the Syndicate Files Revealed Archived 2019-11-04 at the Wayback Machine James D. Keeline
  8. ^ Rediscovering Nancy Drew Carolyn Stewart Dyer, Nancy Tillman Romalov; University of Iowa Press, 1995, page 155
  9. ^ Cite error: The named reference Eagle was invoked but never defined (see the help page).