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Edward L. Stratemeyer (October 4, 1862May 10, 1930) was an American publisher and writer of children's fiction. He was one of the most prolific writers in the world, producing in excess of 1,300〔Omnibus II (2005). Veritas Press. p. 148.〕 books himself, selling in excess of 500 million copies,〔Omnibus II (2005). Veritas Press, p. 148.〕 and created the well-known fictional-book series for juveniles including The Rover Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series, among others. On Stratemeyer's legacy, ''Fortune'' wrote: "As oil had its Rockefeller, literature had its Stratemeyer."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lookingglassreview.com/html/edward_stratemeyer.html )〕 ==Early life and education== He was born the youngest of six children in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to Henry Julius Stratemeyer, a tobacconist, and Anna Siegel, both immigrants from Germany. Growing up, Edward read the likes of Horatio Alger and William T. Adams, writers who penned beloved rags to riches tales of the hardworking young American. As a teenager, Stratemeyer operated his own printing press in the basement of his father's tobacco shop—distributing flyers and pamphlets amongst friends. Stratemeyer graduated from high school but it wasn't until the age of 26 that Stratemeyer sold his first story to the popular children's magazine "Golden Days" for $76—over six times the average weekly paycheck at the time.〔 In 1899, the year Stratemeyer's literary predecessor Horatio Alger died, Stratemeyer wrote and published The Rover Boys a tremendously popular series in the vein of the classic dime novel. The Rover Boys was: "The first highly successful series by Edward Stratemeyer, each volume had a preface from Edward Stratemeyer himself, thanking his readers and touting the other books. It's generally accepted that Stratemeyer wrote all of the books. He is on record as stating it is his favorite series." He married Magdalena Van Camp in 1891,〔 and had two daughters: Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (1892–1982) and Edna C. Squier (1895–1974), both of whom would later take over the future Stratemeyer Syndicate 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edward Stratemeyer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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