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Don Herold (July 9, 1889
["United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JBG1-W49 : accessed July 19, 2013), Don Herold, June 1966.] – June 1, 1966) was an American humorist, writer, illustrator, and
cartoonist who wrote and illustrated many books and was a contributor to national magazines.
Biography
He was born in
Bloomfield, Indiana, to Otto F. Herold and Clara Dyer Herold. He graduated from high school in 1907 and went on to the
Art Institute of Chicago until 1908 when he transferred to the
Indiana University
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Campuses
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*Indiana Universi ...
. He was a member of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity and in 1913 he graduated with an
AB degree. He married Katherine Porter Brown on August 12, 1916, and they had two children; one of whom was the writer
Doris Herold Lund. He lived in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s and New York City from 1940 to 1962. He died in
Vero Beach
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, Florida.
Perhaps one of his more famous works is a poem called "I'd Pick More Daisies" which was published in Reader's Digest in 1953.
It was also known as "If I had My Life to Live over", which was translated to Spanish as "
Instantes"
and misattributed to
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (; ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, as well as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature. His best-known b ...
. The real poem, written by Don Herold, was also misattributed to Nadine Stair.
Publications
* ''A Lap Full of Fun''; Don Herold Book no.1 (1919) Mellett Publishing Co.
* ''So Human'' (1924)
* ''Bigger and Better'' (1924)
* ''There Ought to be a Law'' (1926)
* ''Our Compassionate Goldfish'' (1927)
* ''Strange Bedfellows'' (1930)
* ''Doing Europe and Vice-Versa'' (1931)
* ''How to Choose a Slide Rule'' (1940, 1952)
* ''Enlarging Is Thrilling or The Joy of Making Big Ones Out of Little Ones'' (1945)
* ''Typographical Handbook'' (1946)
*'' Love That Golf'' (1952)
* ''Drunks are Driving Me to Drink'' (1953)
* ''The Happy Hypochondriac'' (1962)
* ''Humor in Advertising'' (1963)
* ''Adventures in Golf'' (1965)
References
External links
Don Herold quotesShort Biography and one of his illustrations
1889 births
1966 deaths
American humorists
American cartoonists
School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni
People from Bloomfield, Indiana
Artists from New York City
Artists from Los Angeles
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