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Helen Aberson-Mayer (June 16, 1907 – April 3, 1999) [1] [2] was an American children's book author. Aberson-Mayer was best known for co-authoring the story that inspired Walt Disney's 1941 film Dumbo. [3]
Oct 25, 2015 · I started working this in April 1999 after I read Helen Aberson Mayer's obituary in The New York Times. Helen, a Syracusan, wrote the original story of Dumbo with her husband, Harold...
When she died on April 3, 1999, at the age of ninety-one, Helen Aberson was living in Manhattan, had been married to a businessman named Richard Mayer since 1944, and was known as Helen Aberson Mayer.
“Back in the day, in 1999 when I still wrote for the Syracuse Post-Standard, the word “Syracuse’’ jumped out at me as I read an obituary in the New York Times for Helen Aberson Mayer, at 91. The by-lined death notice said Helen wrote the story that inspired the 1941 Walt Disney film, “Dumbo.’’.
Apr 10, 1999 · Helen Aberson Mayer, who wrote the children's story that inspired the 1941 Walt Disney cartoon, ''Dumbo,'' died last Saturday at her home in Manhattan. She was 91.
Helen Aberson, author: born Syracuse, New York 1907; married Richard Mayer (one son); died New York 3 April 1999.
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Dumbo is a 1941 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, and illustrated by Helen Durney for the prototype of a novelty toy ("Roll-a-Book"). [4][5]
