Robert Wexelblatt

Robert Wexelblatt

Robert Wexelblatt is a professor of humanities at Boston University’s College of General Studies. He has published seven fiction collections; two books of essays; two short novels; two books of poems; stories, essays, and poems in a variety of journals, and a novel awarded the Indie Book Awards first prize for fiction.  

Stratemeyer hired generations of hacks.  They wrote under pseudonyms known to millions of children.  The kids pictured these authors’ handsome faces, imagined their happy, fulfilled lives.  The pseudonyms weren’t pen-names.  Those are for individuals.  What Stratemeyer pioneered was the house name.

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