"The Hardy Boys The Hardy Boys, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in several mystery series for children and teens. The characters were created by American writer Edward Stratemeyer, the founder of book-packaging firm Stratemeyer Syndicate; the books themselves are written by ghostwriters under the collective pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. The Hardy Boys have evolved since their debut in 1927. Beginning in 1959, the books were extensively revised, partially to eliminate racial stereotypes. The books were also written in a simpler style to compete with television. Some critics argue that the Hardy Boys changed in the process,"
"Thomas Dixon Jr. Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was a Southern Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, politician, lawyer, and author who wrote two early 20th-century novels, ""The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden – 1865–1900"" (1902) and ""The Clansman"" (1905), that glorified the Ku Klux Klan's vigilantes, romanticized Southern white supremacy, and opposed the equal rights for blacks during the Reconstruction era. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted ""The Clansman"" for the screen in ""The Birth of a Nation"" (1915), which stimulated the formation of the 20th-century version of the Klan. Dixon"
"minister, orator, actor, and author Thomas Dixon, Jr. wrote a number of novels, plays, sermons, and non-fiction pieces which were quite popular with the general public all over the USA. Today Dixon is perhaps best known for writing a trilogy of novels about Reconstruction, one of which was entitled ""The Clansman"" (1905), a book which would eventually become the inspiration for D. W. Griffith's infamous 1915 film ""The Birth of a Nation"". Overall Dixon wrote 22 novels, numerous plays and film scripts, Christian sermons, and some non-fiction works during his lifetime. In the 1920s and 1930s, a renaissance in Southern"
"The Traitor (Dixon novel) The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire is a 1907 novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. John Graham, a Confederate veteran and dispossessed planter, serves as the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. As black power has been curtailed, the Grand Wizard orders Graham to have one last march through town and finally discontinue their activities. The Klan members burn their robes and bury them in a grave. Two weeks later, Graham's rival, Steve Hoyle starts a new Ku Klux Klan. The novel is the third part in a"
"Springs, North Carolina. Public Thomas Dixon Jr. Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was a Southern Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, politician, lawyer, and author who wrote two early 20th-century novels, ""The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden – 1865–1900"" (1902) and ""The Clansman"" (1905), that glorified the Ku Klux Klan's vigilantes, romanticized Southern white supremacy, and opposed the equal rights for blacks during the Reconstruction era. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted ""The Clansman"" for the screen in ""The Birth of a Nation"" (1915), which stimulated the formation of the 20th-century version"
"Leslie McFarlane Charles Leslie McFarlane (October 25, 1902 in Carleton Place, Ontario – September 6, 1977 in Oshawa, Ontario) was a Canadian journalist, novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who is most famous for ghostwriting many of the early books in the very successful ""Hardy Boys"" series, using the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. The son of a school principal, McFarlane was raised in the town of Haileybury, Ontario. He became a freelance writer shortly after high school. He and his family moved to Whitby, Ontario, in 1936. This period is described in his 1975 book ""A Kid in Haileybury"". As a young"
"The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905. It was the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas F. Dixon Jr. that included ""The Leopard's Spots"" and ""The Traitor"". It was influential in providing the ideology that helped support the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK or The Klan). The novel was twice notably adapted, immediately by its author as a play entitled ""The Clansman"" (1905), and a decade later by D. W. Griffith in the 1915 silent"
"Brian A. Dixon Brian A. Dixon (born April 19, 1980) is an American author, primarily of short fiction. He was born in Connecticut. His first published short story, ""The McMillen Golf Penalty,"" was awarded the Shannon Searles Fiction Prize by ""Connecticut Review"" in 2002. He has since published short fiction in a number of outlets in addition to work on plays and novels. Dixon served as the editor of ""Revelation"" magazine, an independent literary magazine about the apocalypse. ""Columbia & Britannia"" (2009), an alternate history anthology edited by Brian A. Dixon and Adam Chamberlain, was nominated for the 2010 Sidewise"
"Chuck Dixon Charles Dixon (born April 14, 1954) is an American comic book writer, best known for his work on the Marvel Comics character the Punisher and on the DC Comics characters Batman, Nightwing, and Robin in the 1990s and early 2000s. Chuck Dixon's earliest comics work was writing ""Evangeline"" for in 1984 and then for First Comics. Editor Larry Hama hired him to write back-up stories for Marvel Comics' ""Savage Sword of Conan"". Writing under the name ""Charles Dixon"", he would eventually take over the lead feature of Conan on a semi-regular basis. He contributed stories to the Larry"
"Johnny Dixon (series) Johnny Dixon is a fictional American boy featured in a series of twelve children's gothic horror novels, 1983 to 1999, written by John Bellairs or his successor Brad Strickland. In each book, 13-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world. Alternatively, Johnny Dixon is the book series (""Johnny Dixon and the Professor"" in ISFDB). The series is set in the early 1950s. Johnny lives with his paternal grandparents in fictional Duston Heights, Massachusetts; his mother died of cancer some time prior to the beginning of the series,"
"and ""Fantasy Crossroads"". The book collects the author's fifteen tales of ensorcelled financier W. Wilson Newbury, an ordinary man continually encountering extraordinary situations. His French wife Denise also appears in most of the tales. Two stories (""Balsamo's Mirror"" and ""Far Babylon"") feature characters recognizable as real-life authors H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, though neither is actually named. In two of the stories (""Darius"" and ""The Huns"") de Camp reuses the characters of Henri Michod, Virgil Hathaway and Charlie Catfish, who originally appeared in his early stories ""The Hardwood Pile"" (1940) and ""The Reluctant Shaman"" (1947), set in the"
"should proceed under white supremacy. In popular literature, two early 20th-century novels by Thomas Dixon—""The Clansman"" (1905) and ""The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden – 1865–1900"" (1902)—romanticized white resistance to Northern/black coercion, hailing vigilante action by the Ku Klux Klan. D. W. Griffith adapted Dixon's ""The Clansman"" for the screen in his anti-Republican movie ""The Birth of a Nation"" (1915); it stimulated the formation of the 20th-century version of the KKK. Many other authors romanticized the benevolence of slavery and the élite world of the antebellum plantations in memoirs and histories published in the late nineteenth"
"is its president. The Flax of Dream - a tetralogy following the life of Willie Maddison A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight - a series of 15 novels following the life of Phillip Maddison from his birth in the late 1890s till the early 1950s, based loosely on Williamson's own life and experiences. Other Works Henry Williamson Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English army officer, naturalist, farmer, and writer known for his novels on natural and social history, and his advocacy of ruralism. He won the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 with his"
"As a direct result from that experience, Dixon wrote his first novel, ""The Leopard's Spots"" (1902), which uses several characters, including Simon Legree, recycled from Stowe's novel. Dixon's ""Trilogy of Reconstruction"" consisted of ""The Leopard's Spots"" (1902), ""The Clansman"" (1905), and ""The Traitor"" (1907). Dixon's novels were best-sellers in their day, despite being sordid racist parodies of historical romance fiction. They glorify a antebellum American South white supremacist viewpoint. Dixon claimed to oppose slavery, but he espoused racial segregation and vehemently opposed universal suffrage and miscegenation. Dixon's Reconstruction era novels depict Northerners as greedy carpetbaggers and white Southerners as victims."
"dead man who is the owner of the stolen diamond. Later, they travel to a strange chain of islands and learn of a sinister plot to sabotage nuclear power plants with artificial earthquakes created by miniature nuclear bombs to harm the nuclear power industry and to make oil more popular. The Infinity Clue The Infinity Clue is the 70th title of the Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, written by Franklin W. Dixon. It was published by Wanderer Books in 1981. After a dangerous tour of a nuclear power plant which was struck by an earthquake, Frank, Joe, and Chet travel to"
"the short story ""Trespass!"", written jointly with Poul Anderson, in the Spring 1950 issue of ""Fantastic Stories Quarterly"" (ed. Sam Merwin), the inaugural number of ""Fantastic Story Magazine"" as it came to be titled. Next year three of his solo efforts were published by John W. Campbell in ""Astounding Science Fiction"" and one appeared in ""Planet Stories"". Anderson and Dickson also inaugurated the Hoka series with ""The Sheriff of Canyon Gulch"" (""Other Worlds Science Stories"", May 1951). Dickson's series of novels include the Childe Cycle and the Dragon Knight. He won three Hugo awards and one Nebula award. For a"
"in a 1972 history of comics, that after his daughter's death In 1973, Binder worked for Vincent Fago's Pendulum Press, adapting classic science-fiction stories into comic book format, including ""Frankenstein"", ""The Invisible Man"", ""The Time Machine"", ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" and ""The Mysterious Island"". He died in Chestertown, New York on October 13, 1974, leaving behind, counted Bridwell, ""almost 50,000 pages of comics"" comprising ""over 1,300 scripts for Fawcett"" and ""more than 2,000 for 20 other publishers"", including ""some 93 heroes in 198 magazines."" Binder was posthumously inducted into the Will Eisner Hall of Fame in 2004 and given"
"The Infinity Clue The Infinity Clue is the 70th title of the Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, written by Franklin W. Dixon. It was published by Wanderer Books in 1981. After a dangerous tour of a nuclear power plant which was struck by an earthquake, Frank, Joe, and Chet travel to Washington, DC. This is after they receive a strange, cryptic letter from their father commanding them to go there and to be aware of Infinity. After they arrive in Washington, DC, they are threatened by a ruthless terrorist who seems to have a hobby with explosives. The Infinity clue seems"
"that the scene where the original Klan members burn and bury their robes is reminiscent of scenes of burials in Edgar Allan Poe's fiction. Moreover, she suggested it paralleled the natural shedding of skin by snakes. Andrew Warnes, a Reader in American Studies at Leeds University in England, suggested the depictions of the mob mentality of the Ku Klux Klan in Richard Wright's novels were influenced by ""The Traitor"". The Traitor (Dixon novel) The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire is a 1907 novel by Thomas Dixon Jr. John Graham, a Confederate veteran and dispossessed planter,"
"1905 novel ""The Clansman"", later adapted to the screen by D. W. Griffith in his highly successful but controversial ""The Birth of a Nation"" in 1915. Noting that Dixon and Griffith collaborated on ""Birth of a Nation"", Blight wrote: Dixon's vicious version of the idea that blacks had caused the Civil War by their very presence, and that Northern radicalism during Reconstruction failed to understand that freedom had ushered blacks as a race into barbarism, neatly framed the story of the rise of heroic vigilantism in the South. Reluctantly, Klansmen—white men—had to take the law into their own hands in"
"to stimulate new ideas for stories. The best-remembered story of 1934 is probably Jack Williamson's ""The Legion of Space"", which began serialization in April, but other notable stories include Murray Leinster's ""Sidewise in Time"", which was the first genre science-fiction story to use the idea of alternate history; ""The Bright Illusion"", by C.L. Moore, and ""Twilight"", by John W. Campbell, writing as Don A. Stuart. ""Twilight"", which was written in a more literary and poetic style than Campbell's earlier space opera stories, was particularly influential, and Tremaine encouraged other writers to produce similar stories. One such was Raymond Z. Gallun's"
"The Crimson Flame The Crimson Flame is the 77th title of the Hardy Boys Mystery Stories, written by Franklin W. Dixon. It was published by Wanderer Books in 1983. The plot begins with Frank and Joe witnessing a westerner being attacked by a notorious jewel thief Oscar Tamm. The westerner reveals himself as Alfred McVay and as an avid jewel collector. Due to suspicious happenings at his ranch house in Arizona, he hires the Hardys for protection. Upon reaching there the Hardys start to investigate the strange happenings and develop an immediate dislike of the foreman, Wat Perkins. They are"
"fictional town of Gahato in upstate New York, were much later reused by de Camp in two of his tales of W. Wilson Newbury, ""The Huns"" (1978) and ""Darius"" (1977). The anthology placed eleventh in the 1971 Locus Poll Award for Best Anthology/Collection. The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales is a collection of short stories by American science fiction and fantasy author L. Sprague de Camp, first published in paperback by Pyramid Books in November 1970. An E-book edition was published by Gollancz's SF Gateway imprint on September 29, 2011 as part"
"<br> Tom Camp – A Confederate soldier <br> Flora – Tom's daughter <br> Simon Legree – Ex-slave driver and Reconstruction leader <br> Allan Mcleod – A scalawag (Union sympathizer) <br> Everett Lowell – Member of Congress from Boston <br> Helen Lowell – Everett's daughter <br> Major Stuart Dameron – Head of the Ku Klux Klan <br> Hose Norman – poor white man <br> Hon. Tim Shelby – Political Boss <br> George Harris, Jr – An educated Negro<br> Leonidas The Leopard's Spots The Leopard's Spots is the first novel of Thomas Dixon's Ku Klux Klan trilogy that included """" and ""The"
"and his father is a fighter pilot in the United States Air Force during the Korean War. Johnny's best friend, history professor Roderick Childermass, lives across the street. In ""The Mummy, the Will and the Crypt"", Johnny meets a boy his own age, Byron Q. ""Fergie"" Ferguson, at a Boy Scout camp. Thenceforth, Johnny, Fergie, and Professor Childermass (who is typically referred to as simply ""the professor"") are the three principal characters of the series. Johnny Dixon (series) Johnny Dixon is a fictional American boy featured in a series of twelve children's gothic horror novels, 1983 to 1999, written by"
"as a monster-making, globe-hopping magician who calls himself Frankenstein; the science fiction novel ""The Frankenstein Murders"" portrays Dippel as an assistant to Victor Frankenstein; Topps' three-part comic book miniseries ""The Frankenstein-Dracula War"" lists Dippel as one of Dr. Frankenstein's chief inspirations; Warren Ellis's graphic novel ""Frankenstein's Womb"" hypothesizes that Shelley indeed visited Castle Frankenstein and heard of Dippel before writing her famous work; Christopher Farnsworth's debut novel ""Blood Oath"" features a vampire trying to stop an immortal Dippel (who had once worked for Adolf Hitler) from creating a Frankenstein-like army; G.M.S. Altman's novel ""Dippel's Oil"" features a kindhearted Dippel living"
"books for juvenile readers called the ""[[Ted Scott Flying Stories]]"" (1927–1943), which were written by a number of authors all using the ""[[pen name|nom de plume]]"" of [[Franklin W. Dixon]], in which the pilot hero was closely modeled after Lindbergh. Ted Scott duplicated the solo flight to Paris in the series' first volume, entitled ""Over the Ocean to Paris"" published in 1927. Another fictional literary reference to Lindbergh appears in the [[Agatha Christie]] book (1934) and movie ""[[Murder on the Orient Express (1974 film)|Murder on the Orient Express]]"" (1974) which begins with a fictionalized depiction of the [[Lindbergh baby kidnapping]]."
"Award for Alternate History. Dixon and Chamberlain are also the editors of ""Back to Frank Black"" (2012), a volume of original essays and interviews celebrating Chris Carter's ""Millennium"". Brian A. Dixon Brian A. Dixon (born April 19, 1980) is an American author, primarily of short fiction. He was born in Connecticut. His first published short story, ""The McMillen Golf Penalty,"" was awarded the Shannon Searles Fiction Prize by ""Connecticut Review"" in 2002. He has since published short fiction in a number of outlets in addition to work on plays and novels. Dixon served as the editor of ""Revelation"" magazine, an"
"Stephen Dixon (author) Stephen Dixon (born 1936 in New York City) is an author of novels and short stories. Dixon has been nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for ""Frog"" and in 1995 for ""Interstate"". Dixon was one of seven children in the family. His work, characterized by mordant humor, long sentences, and a frank attention to human sexuality, has also earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart prize. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1958 and"
"as an adult and gave them as gifts. Another author whom Mitchell read as a teenager and who had a major impact in her understanding of the Civil War and Reconstruction was Thomas Dixon. Dixon's popular trilogy of novels ""The Leopard's Spots: A Romance of the White Man's Burden"" (1902), """" (1905) and ""The Traitor: A Story of the Rise and Fall of the Invisible Empire"" (1907) all depicted in vivid terms a white South victimized during the Reconstruction by Northern carpetbaggers and freed slaves, with an especial emphasis upon Reconstruction as a nightmarish time when black men ran amok,"
"the publication of ""The Clansman"". One of the images most commonly associated with the Klan, that of a burning Latin cross, was actually taken from ""The Clansman"", but was not used by the original clan. Dixon, who had Scottish ancestry, drew upon the Scottish tradition of the ""Crann Tara"", a burning cross used to call clan members to arms, as inspiration for the depiction of cross burning. The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905. It was the second work in the"
"an immediate success: by mid-1929, more than 115,000 books had been sold. So successful was the series that Stratemeyer created Nancy Drew as a female counterpart to the Hardys. Each volume is penned by a ghostwriter under the pseudonym Franklin W. Dixon. In accordance with the customs of Stratemeyer Syndicate series production, ghostwriters for the Syndicate signed contracts that have sometimes been interpreted as requiring authors to sign away all rights to authorship or future royalties. The contracts stated that authors could not use their Stratemeyer Syndicate pseudonyms independently of the Syndicate. In the early days of the Syndicate, ghostwriters"
"books, and ghost-wrote several novels published under the names of well-known sportsmen. He died in Haywards Heath, Sussex, in 1971. Reginald Alec Martin Reginald Alec Martin (11 January 1908 – 27 June 1971) was a British author of a children's series and other novels. He wrote under a series of pseudonyms, including E. C. Eliott and Rex Dixon. Martin was born in South London in 1908. He claimed to have started work at 13, and spent time in various countries, working as a cowboy, gold prospector, and wild-horse trader, among numerous other occupations. During the Second World War he lived"