The Hardy Boys

by Franklin W. Dixon

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1. Alun CochraneInterview

   LOADS. Very early would be Enid Blyton, then adventure stuff like The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon. I always got The Broons or ‘Oor Wullie’ annuals for Christmas every year (I am Scottish under my English accent). I have a distinct memory of reading all the so-called ‘boys books’ a particular teacher had. He…

2. Lawrence GrobelInterview

   I think about The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon; The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger; Siddhartha by Herman Hesse; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; and Franz Kafka’s stories.

3. Jonah BergerInterview

   My earliest memory of reading is reading The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon. Loved those books, they created an immersive world that you just wanted to be a part of. As a kid, you couldn’t help but get sucked in. You wanted to know what was going to happen next.

4. Juliette KayyemInterview

   The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein; maybe because I’m a mother of 3 now. I’d also add Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon! The first book I ever fell in love with though, was To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

5. Pat HarrisInterview

   While the Hardy Boys seemed almost real in our house, where I was the youngest of three curious boys, my classmates and I often talked about reading Moby Dick. It was complex and elusive, and reading it would be as much of an adventure as the story itself. One of them read it in the 4th grade, but despite attempts in…

6. Barbara TverskyInterview

   A charming book on world cultures, anthropology, which my beloved grandfather (a warm, wise man who narrowly escaped the pogroms in Russia at 19, arriving alone in NYC with no English) wisely sent me when I was 7. It described creation stories from all over the world and made me a confirmed atheist at a young age…

7. Matti FriedmanInterview

   I remember reading old series from the ‘50s, like the Hardy Boys and Tom Swift. I used to buy them for a quarter at used book sales in Toronto, where I grew up. They were obsolete by the time I was a kid in the 1980s, but they appealed to me – maybe because of the fundamentally optimistic world they represented and…

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