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