death_date death_place birth_place pseudonym notableworks name birth_date genre image article_title birth_name occupation
27 march 1982 tewksbury township , new jersey newark , new jersey , u.s. carolyn keene nancy drew series harriet adams 11 december 1892 juvenile mystery fiction harriet stratemeyer adams.jpg harriet adams
 harriet stratemeyer adams novelist , publisher
harriet adams

harriet stratemeyer adams -lrb- december 11 , 1892 -- march 27 , 1982 -rrb- was an american juvenile mystery novelist and publisher who authored some 200 books over her literary career .
she wrote many books in the `` nancy drew '' series -lrb- under the pseudonym carolyn keene -rrb- and a few in the `` hardy boys '' series -lrb- under the pseudonym franklin w. dixon -rrb- .
she also oversaw other ghostwriters who wrote for these and many other series as a part of the stratemeyer syndicate .
