Leslie McFarlane
October 25, 1902 – September 06, 1977
Place of Birth:
Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
Place of Death:
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Charles Leslie McFarlane (October 25, 1902 in Carleton Place, Ontario – September 6, 1977 in Oshawa, Ontario) 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.