Laura Lee Hope is a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for the Bobbsey Twins and several other series of children's novels. A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) The Stratemeyer Syndicate was the producer of a number of series for children and adults including the Nancy Drew mysteries The Hardy Boys, the various Tom Swift The Bobbsey Twins are the principal characters of what was for many years the Stratemeyer Syndicate 's longest-running series of children's novels penned under the pseudonym Actual writers taking up the pen of Laura Lee Hope include Howard and Lilian Garis, Elizabeth Ward, Harriet (Stratemeyer) Adams, and Nancy Axelrad. Howard Roger Garis, ( 25 April 1873, Binghamton, New York – 6 November 1962, Amherst, Massachusetts Lilian C Garis, born Lilian C McNamara (1873- 14 April 1954) was an American Author who wrote hundreds of books of juvenile fiction Harriet Adams ( December 11 1892 in Newark New Jersey as Harriet Stratemeyer – March 27, 1982) was an American