Charles S. Strong

Charles Stanley Strong (November 29, 1906 – October 11, 1962) was an American writer, adventurer and explorer.

His pen names include Chuck Stanley, William McClellan, Carl Sturdy, Kelvin McKay, Nancy Bartlett, Myron Keats, Charles Stoddard, Larry Regan, the house names Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon and possibly several others. His own name was used as a pseudonym for other writers, including Samuel Epstein and Beryl Williams.

Strong wrote The Hardy Boys book The Hooded Hawk Mystery and the Nancy Drew book The Scarlet Slipper Mystery, and once machine-gunned a shark from an airplane. Strong studied at the Pace Institute of Accounting and Law and the Royal Fredrick University (now the University of Oslo) in Norway.

An honor student, he gained some early recognition as a twelve-year-old for writing a history of the Great War. The book had nine chapters, brief bios of main figures, 100 photographs, 25 maps, and appendices.

In June 1920, he graduated from Public School No. 90.

Writing career In 1931, the Brooklyn Eagle Magazine carried a feature article titled "Long Island Man Kills Sharks from Airplane" by Joan Crockett which said

The article adds that a Norwegian newspaper called him "The American who knows Scandinavia thoroughly" and a Swedish newspaper "The American who discovered Sweden".

He wrote one of the chapters, "Twelve Days Eastward", in Conquerors of the Sky by Joseph Lewis French, which has an introduction by Amelia Earhart.

He was even mentioned in the Icelandic newspaper Morgunblaðið on November 1, 1928, describing him as the editor of the Scandinavian American News Bureau.

Strong was also the New York correspondent for the short-lived radio publication What's On the Air, circa 1931.

Strong was an editor at Standard Magazines, a.k.a. the Thrilling pulps, from approximately 1936 through 1954, when he retired to devote himself to writing books.

Death Strong died of a heart attack in Hempstead, New York, at the age of 55 on October 11, 1962.

Works

Books Fiction by Charles S. Strong: Ranger, Sea Dog of the Royal Mounted (1948) About a Samoyed pup which becomes an accomplished sailor. South Pole Husky (1950) Ranger's Arctic Patrol (1952) Snow King, Herd Dog of Lapland (1954, Dodd, Mead) Based on his 1928 treks in Lapland. Lassie: Treasure Hunter (1960) The Lost Convoy (1960, Chilton) (last published book)

by Charles Stoddard: North of the Stars (1937, Dodge, New York, 256 pp.) The Trapper of Rat River (1941) Killer of Fort Norman (1944) Malloy of the Royal Mounted (1944) The Timber Beasts (1944) The Killer of Sheep River (1946) Prairie Peril (1946) Tundra Trail (1947, Arcadia House) (Mallory of the Royal Mounted) Northwest Trouble (1948) The Golden Arrow (1956)

by Larry Regan: Bullwacker (1955, W. Foulsham & Company, 150 pp.)

by Franklin W. Dixon: The Hooded Hawk Mystery (1954, Grosset & Dunlap) (The Hardy Boys #34)

by Carolyn Keene: The Scarlet Slipper Mystery (1954, Grosset & Dunlap) (Nancy Drew #32) Based on an outline by Harriet S. Adams.

Nonfiction by Charles S. Strong: We Were There with Byrd at the South Pole (1956) (illus. J. Graham Kaye) The Story of American Sailing Ships (1957) (illustrated by Gordon Hope Grant) The Real Book About the Antarctic (1959) – written for the International Geophysical Year

Magazines Fiction by Charles S. Strong: "Right Side Up in the Arctic", Flying Aces, July 1934 (first known pulp story) "Sahara Scout", Sky Birds, February 1935 "Sealed", Popular Detective, July 1937 "Chinese Thunder", Thrilling Adventures, August 1938 "Deep Purple", Army-Navy Flying Stories, Summer 1945 "Ten Years for Butch", Popular Detective, December 1945 by Chuck Stanley: "The Brand Blotter", Blue Ribbon Western, December 1948 (novel length) (last known pulp story)

Nonfiction by Charles Strong: "Hot Ice", Easy Money, July 1936 "First Page Signals", Writer's 1943 Year Book, February 1943 by Charles S. Strong: "Finland's Fight for Freedom", Thrilling Adventures, February 1940 by Chuck Stanley: "Firearms", Exciting Western, December 1945 "Oklahoma Place Names", Exciting Western, March 1949

Comic Books Two-page text article for Real Life Comics #2 (1941) Light of Liberty about the Statue of Liberty.