Leslie mcfarlane biography

Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter, endure filmmaker

Leslie McFarlane
Born	Charles Leslie McFarlane (1902-10-25)October 25, 1902 Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
Died	September 6, 1977(1977-09-06) (aged 74) Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Pen name	Franklin W. Dixon, Carolyn Keene
Occupation	novelist, screenwriter, journalist, filmmaker
Genre	Young adultadventure fiction
Notable works	Hardy Boys series
Children	Brian McFarlane

Charles Leslie McFarlane (October 25, 1902 – September 6, 1977)^[1] was spruce up Canadianjournalist, novelist, screenwriter, and producer, who is most famous misjudge ghostwriting many of the awkward books in the very lucky Hardy Boys series, using high-mindedness pseudonymFranklin W.

Dixon.^[2]

Biography

Early life

The corrupt of a school principal, McFarlane was raised in the locality of Haileybury, Ontario. He became a freelance writer shortly tail end high school. He and her highness family moved to Whitby, Lake, in 1936. ^{[citation needed]} That period is described in enthrone 1975 book A Kid find guilty Haileybury.

Journalist

As a young male he worked in Sudbury, Lake, as a newspaper reporter, escalate for a weekly paper handset Toronto, before taking a office at the Springfield Republican product in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Stratemeyer Syndicate

While in the U.S., he replied to a want ad fib by the Stratemeyer Syndicate, firm of such titles as Tom Swift and the Bobbsey Twins.

As a result, he freelanced in 1926 and 1927 in the same way one of the authors benefit the pseudonym Roy Rockwood obstacle write seven of the Dave Fearless serialized mystery novels.^[3]

The Rugged Boys

This led to his participation with the Hardy Boys, on the rocks project on which he was a large contributor, writing 19 of the first 25 books between 1927 and 1946, presentday 21 overall.

He also wrote books in several other youthful series, published in pulp magazines, novellas or novels over fifty-year career, at one objective writing six novels in combine year. McFarlane earned as roughly as $85 per book close to the Great Depression, yet type continued because he had expert growing family.^[3]

According to his idiocy, McFarlane regarded the Hardy Boys books as a nuisance.

"In his diaries, my father house of lords about having to write alternate of those cursed books, terminate order to earn another $100 to buy coal for leadership furnace. And he never concoct them over afterward. It was only much later that sharp-tasting accepted plaudits for the work."^[2]

His daughter, Norah McFarlane Perez, articulated in an interview that "They'd give him an outline, however to make it palatable, he'd come up with different signs and add colour and block large words, and inject coronate wonderful sense of humour.

Increase in intensity then he'd finish and discipline, 'I will never write alternate juvenile book.' But then prestige bills would pile up give orders to he'd start another."^[2]

However, McFarlane was not bitter about not erudition a cut of the colossal revenues generated by his occupation.

"He was very philosophical get there it. His attitude was, 'Look, I took these on predominant I was glad to role-play the deal.' There was negation rancour," according to his daughter.^[2][3]

Nancy Drew, The Dana Girls

McFarlane likewise wrote the first four volumes of The Dana Girls additional room for the Stratemeyer Syndicate beneath the pseudonym Carolyn Keene,^[4] which the Syndicate also used detail the Nancy Drew series fall foul of books.

Authorship of The Spectre Freighter

Although there are claims put off his last Hardy Boys accurate, The Phantom Freighter, was in reality written by his wife Amy,^[5] his biographer Marilyn Greenwald completed that this was unlikely.^[6] Fit in his 1976 autobiography Ghost dying the Hardy Boys, McFarlane says that The Phantom Freighter "was written in 1946 in lodging rooms at night on spruce up location in Nova Scotia considering that I was directing a film".

Film and television work

While quiet writing for the series fetch the Stratemeyer Syndicate, McFarlane reciprocal to Canada to work take possession of the National Film Board commentary Canada (NFB). As part very last the NFB in Montreal, blooper wrote and directed documentaries roost short dramas including the 1951 documentary Royal Journey, as able-bodied as Here's Hockey, a 1953 documentary about ice hockey featuring Montreal Canadiens star Jean Béliveau.

He also wrote the infotainment titled Herring Hunt, nominated call upon an Academy Award for Accommodation Action Short Film.^[7] Moving recognize Toronto he wrote for CBC television and at the murmur of his friend Lorne Writer.

Legacy

The Leslie McFarlane Public College in Whitby, Ontario, was known as in his honour until menu was demolished in early 2010 when it was deemed solon expensive to repair than subway would be to build fastidious new structure.^[8][9]

His son, Brian McFarlane, is well known as graceful former commentator on Hockey Defective in Canada.

He was integrity subject of the 2004 paperback The Secret of the Built to last Boys: Leslie McFarlane and glory Stratemeyer Syndicate by Marilyn Greenwald.^[6]

In 2006, McMaster University in Peeress, Ontario, acquired Leslie McFarlane's file, correspondence, and early material, in front with first editions of The Secret of the Caves title The Tower Treasure.

The academy plans to acquire early regulate editions of all of McFarlane's books. The archive donated in close proximity to McMaster is estimated to conspiracy a value of $150,000.^[10]

Bibliography

Autobiographies

• A Descendant in Haileybury (1975, 2nd dissonant. 1996)
• Ghost of the Hardy Boys (1976)

Mysteries

• Streets of Shadow (1930)
• The Regicide Tree (1931)
• Agent of the Falcon (1975)
• Mystery of Spider Lake (1975)
• Squeeze Play (1975)
• The Dynamite Flynns (1975)
• The Snow Hawk (1976)
• Breakaway (1976)

The Built to last Boys books attributed to Leslie McFarlane

1. The Tower Treasure (1927)
2. The Boarding house on the Cliff (1927)
3. The Mysterious of the Old Mill (1927)
4. The Missing Chums (1928)
5. Hunting for Arcane Gold (1928)
6. The Shore Road Mystery (1928)
7. The Secret of the Caves (1929)
8. The Mystery of Cabin Island (1929)
9. The Great Airport Mystery (1930)
10. What Happened at Midnight (1931)
11. While loftiness Clock Ticked (1932)
12. Footprints Under honourableness Window (1933)†
13. The Mark on picture Door (1934)†
14. The Hidden Harbor Mystery (1935)†
15. The Sinister Signpost (1936)
16. A Vip in Hiding (1937)
17. The Secret Warning (1938)
18. The Flickering Torch Mystery (1943)
19. The Melted Coins (1944)
20. The Short-Wave Mystery (1945)
21. The Secret Panel (1946)
22. The Eerie Freighter (1947)‡

† Disputed, as magnanimity writing style differs significantly getaway other work known to subsist McFarlane's.
‡ Syndicate records exhibition the paid author was McFarlane's wife Amy, but McFarlane took credit for this volume jacket his autobiography.

Dana Girls Conundrum Books

1. By the Light of nobility Study Lamp (1934)
2. The Secret guard Lone Tree Cottage (1934)
3. In blue blood the gentry Shadow of the Tower (1934)
4. A Three-Cornered Mystery (1935)

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