Charles S. Strong
Charles Stanley Strong 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.
Early life and education
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 29, 1906, Strong studied at the Pace Institute of Accounting and Law and the Royal Fredrick University in Norway.Writing career
In 1931, the Brooklyn Eagle Magazine carried a feature article titled "Long Island Man Kills Sharks from Airplane" by Joan Crockett which saidThe article adds that a Norwegian newspaper called him "The American who knows Scandinavia thoroughly" and a Swedish newspaper "The American who discovered Sweden". He studied Scandinavian literature at the University of Oslo, and his hobbies included riding, hunting, fishing, and automobile and motorboat racing. His "hydroaerographic chart" was used by European pilots. He proposed a peace plan after World War I to the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
Writing as Charles Stoddard, Strong was one of the writers who popularized the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in fiction, with his leading characters: Corporal Buchanan and Constable Carter of the RCMP.
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.
Death
Strong died in Hempstead, New York, at the age of 55 on October 11, 1962.Works
- Ranger, Sea Dog of the Royal Mounted – about a Samoyed pup which becomes an accomplished sailor
- South Pole Husky
- Ranger's Arctic Patrol
- We Were There with Byrd at the South Pole
- The Real Book About the Antarctic – written for the International Geophysical Year
- The Story of American Sailing Ships
- North of the Stars as Charles Stoddard
- Bullwacker as Larry Regan
He wrote a two-page text article for List of [Standard Comics publications|Real Life Comics #2 (1941)] Light of Liberty about the Statue of Liberty.