1. Harriet Stratemeyer Adams was an American juvenile book packager, children's novelist, and publisher who was responsible for some 200 books over her literary career.
13 Facts About Harriet Adams
1. 2.
Harriet Adams wrote the plot outlines for many books in the Nancy Drew series, using characters invented by her father, Edward Stratemeyer.
3.
Edna ran the daily business operations, while Harriet Adams dealt with publishers and wrote; Edna became inactive when she married in 1942, and Harriet Adams took over the business.
4.
Harriet Adams is credited with keeping the Syndicate afloat through the Great Depression, and with revising the two most popular series, Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys, in the 1950s and 1960s, removing stereotypes and streamlining plots and characters.
5.
Harriet Adams came up with plot ideas and hired ghostwriters to flesh them out.
6.
Harriet Adams Stratemeyer was born in Newark, New Jersey, on December 12,1892, the daughter of Edward Stratemeyer and Magdalena Van Camp.
7.
At a young age, Harriet Adams wanted to break free from being a "proper, young lady who should stay at home".
Related searches
Edward Stratemeyer 8.
Harriet Adams climbed trees, made friends with local boys, and loved books from an early age.
9.
Harriet Adams's father forbade her to work outside the estate, so she edited manuscripts at home.
10.
In 1915, she married Russell Vroom Harriet Adams, and raised four children, becoming involved in the family business only after her father's death.
11.
Harriet Adams resided in Maplewood, New Jersey, and in Pottersville, New Jersey, an area within Tewksbury Township.
12.
Harriet Adams lived in Pottersville at her estate, Bird Haven New Jersey and died of a heart attack while watching The Wizard of Oz for the first time.
13.
Harriet Adams was interred in the Stratemeyer crypt in Fairmount Cemetery in Newark.