| Helen Hokinson AKA Helen Elna Hokinson Born: 29-Jun-1893
Birthplace: Mendota, IL
Died: 1-Nov-1949
Location of death: Washington, DC
Cause of death: Accident - Airplane
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Cartoonist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Cartoonist for The New Yorker A fashion artist, Hokinson submitted a cartoon to the New Yorker in 1925 and almost immediately started work for them. After 1931, she partnered with James Reid Parker (who did the captions to her cartoons.) Hokinson died when her aircraft collided with a Bolivian fighter, ending up in the Potomac.
Father: (farm machinery salesman)
Mother: (dau. of lecturer Phineas Wilcox)
High School: Mendota High School (1913)
University: Chicago Academy of Fine Arts
The New Yorker Cartoonist (1925-)
Author of books:
So You're Going to Buy a Book (1931, cartoons)
My Best Girls (1941, cartoons)
When Were You Built? (1948, cartoons)
The Ladies, God Bless Them (1950, published posthumously by her estate)
The Hokinson Festival (1956, published posthumously by her estate)
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