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Oct 25, 2015 · Helen Aberson and her husband, Harold Pearl, created him in 1938, when they wrote a book, "Dumbo, the Flying Elephant." Helen was a native Syracusan; Harold came here from New York City to...
“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.’’
Jan 14, 2010 · The 1941 softcover book, the earliest book version of Dumbo in the Disney Archives' collection when I was there in the '90s, is titled Dumbo the Flying Elephant and shows Helen Aberson (who had by then dropped Pearl from her name) and Harold Pearl as the authors, with no mention of Disney on the cover. Published by Whitman—that is, by Disney ...
HELEN ABERSON - the "Mayer" came later - was the otherwise unknown author of Dumbo, the Flying Elephant, first published in 1939 and two years later made into the famous Disney film. Born in...
Helen Aberson's story of the elephant who could fly was originally published as a roll-a-book (a sort of cardboard box with a rolling paper sheet in a window much like the rolls in a player piano). You can read more about the mysterious original here: http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/...
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Helen Aberson-Mayer (June 16, 1907 – April 3, 1999) [1] [2] was an American children's book author.
Helen Aberson-Mayer (June 16, 1907 – April 3, 1999) 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.
