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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Wasn't Carolyn Keene just the penname for Mildred Benson?
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No, she was just one of the original employed writers by Stratemeyer. Franklin Dixon, Laura Lee Hope and others were house names for their series. Maybe one of their best writers.
Edward Stratemeyer or his wife may have written the first volume of some their series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratemeyer_Syndicate (may contain inaccuracies). Of course it was decades and post-internet that I discovered that Franklin Dixon, Carolyn Keene and Laura Lee Hope were not even pen names like Cordwainer Smith or John le Carré or Leslie Charteris, though Charteris, like Patterson, eventually employed ghost writers for The Saint.