Franklin W. Dixon (1902-) is the author of The Hardy Boys Mysteries and the Ted Scott Flying Stories. Before his career as a novelist, he was a journalist for Literary Monthly in New York. Mr. Dixon currently resides on Scrapetown Road in Pemberton Heights, New Jersey, near the Fort Dix Military Reservation, named in honor of his father, Spanish-American War hero Lieutenant Colonel W. Chester "Dix" Dixon (1867-1929), praised by former United States president Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he served in the charge up San Juan Hill, as "a true American patriot, as only Presbyterians can produce."

- from Who's Who in American Literature (1990 edition), edited by Sylvia Longhouse.