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Brooks Henderley
A vintage house name tied to brisk, wholesome adventure stories for young readers, this byline is best known for the Y.M.C.A. Boys books. The name points to the storytelling machinery of the Stratemeyer Syndicate, where fast-moving plots and dependable heroes were part of the appeal.
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The Y. M. C. A. boys on Bass Island : or, The mystery of Russabaga camp
by Brooks Henderley
The Y. M. C. A. boys of Cliffwood; or, The struggle for the Holwell Prize
by Brooks Henderley
About the author
Brooks Henderley is best known as the credited author of early 20th-century boys' adventure fiction, especially The Y. M. C. A. Boys of Cliffwood and The Y. M. C. A. Boys on Bass Island. Surviving catalog and library records consistently connect the name with those books.
Reliable reference pages also note that Brooks Henderley was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate rather than a clearly identified individual author. That helps explain why solid biographical details are scarce: the name seems to have functioned as a series byline for commercial juvenile fiction, not as a public literary persona with a well-documented life story.
For readers, that means the interest here is less in a personal biography and more in a style and era: clean-cut adventure, teamwork, mystery, and moral confidence, written for young audiences during the heyday of American series fiction.