Her home, 'Wolf Hollow', was the model for Crabapple Farm and Campbell actually lived on Glendale Road.Īfter completing Trixie Belden and the Mystery in Arizona, Campbell decided to stop. The Trixie Belden series was set in 'Sleepyside' but was based on the town Campbell was living in at the time in the Hudson River Valley near Ossining. She is also credited for writing 'Rin Tin Tin's Rinty' for Whitman in 1954, but in an article Campbell denied having written that book and wonders why Whitman credited her with the title.

So is a wonderful book called To Nick from Jan, which has many similarities to Trixie Belden except the main character is almost 17 years old. The last Cherry Ames book Campbell wrote in 1955, Cherry Ames: Country Doctor's Nurse, is set in Sleepyside-on-the-Hudson, the setting of the Trixie Belden mysteries. Cherry Ames: Dude Ranch Nurse is set in Tucson, Arizona which is the setting of Campbell's last Trixie Belden Mystery. There are several similarities to the Trixie Belden series. It is believed that Campbell wrote Cherry Ames, Cruise Nurse in three weeks during the same period she was also writing the first Trixie Belden and Ginny Gordon books.Ĭampbell wrote the series under her married name of Julie Tatham. At the same time, Campbell stepped in to take over the Cherry Ames and Vicki Barr series and wrote twelve books in total for these series over the same time period. The Ginny Gordon series consisted of five books published between 19, while her contribution to the Trixie Belden series consisted of six books between 19. Campbell proposed four series, two that would be written by herself and the others by two of her authors Hal Burton and John Henry Cutler.īoth series were published under her maiden name, Julie Campbell. She had her own literary agency in the 1940s when Western Publishing invited literary agents to find authors who could produce mystery and adventure books that would be marketed to children at an affordable price. Campbell lived in a remodelled farmhouse in the Hudson River Valley with her husband and two sons when she began writing the Trixie Belden series. on the 30th March 1933 and they worked together on many magazine stories and articles.

As the daughter of an Army Officer, she travelled widely during her childhood and, at the age of eight, won her first short story contest while living in Hawaii.Ĭampbell married Charles Tatham Jr. Julie Campbell was born on the 1st of June 1908 in Flushing, New York and shares the same birthday as her character, Mart Belden. Julie Campbell, Julie Tatham and Julie C. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name.

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