Art of Freddy

Walter R. Brooks was born in Rome, New York, on January 9, 1886, and died in Roxbury, New York, on August 17, 1958. Brooks attended the University of Rochester and, after graduation, worked for the American Red Cross and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. He became associate editor of Outlook in 1928 and then a staff writer for several magazines, including The New Yorker. The short stories he wrote during this time were published in the Saturday Evening Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and Esquire. Brooks's short story, "Ed Takes the Pledge," was the basis for the 1960s television series, Mr. Ed, but his most lasting achievement is the Freddy the Pig series, which began in 1927 with To and Again (Freddy Goes to Florida). He subsequently wrote twenty-five more delightful books starring Freddy Kurt Wiese was born in Minden, Germany, on April 22, 1887. In 1909 he traveled to China to begin a career as a merchant. When revolution broke out, he was captured by the Japanese army and held in Australia by the British as a prisoner of war for five years. After World War I, he lived in Brazil, where he began working as an illustrator of textbooks and children's books. In 1927, he moved to the United States, where he wrote and illustrated twenty books, and illustrated over 300 books written by other authors, including the twenty-six Freddy the Pig books on which he collaborated with Walter Brooks. Kurt Wiese died in Frenchtown, New Jersey, in 1974Brooks, Walter R. is the author of 'Art of Freddy' with ISBN 9781585673155 and ISBN 1585673153.