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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.
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.
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 Pearl.
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...
“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 · 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.
Dumbo is based upon a children's story written by Helen Aberson-Mayer and Harold Pearl, with illustrations by Helen Durney. The children's book was first brought to the attention of Walt Disney in late 1939 by Kay Kamen , the studio's head of merchandise licensing, who showed a prototype of the Roll-A-Book that included Dumbo .
