George Edward Stanley
July 15, 1942 – February 7, 2011 (aged 68)
Birth place: Memphis, Texas, USA
Professor of African and Middle-Eastern Languages and Linguistics, Cameron University (Lawton, Oklahoma, USA)
Prolific author of fiction and nonfiction, primarily for children; Stanley also wrote numerous books featuring teenage detectives Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys (non-genre here), under house names and respectively.
--archive.org (archived 2011)