Mort Walker Papers 1972.

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Mort Walker Papers 1972.

Collection contains typescripts, correspondence, articles and reviews for two children's books.

4 folders.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7520956

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Walker, Mort

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Born Addison Morton Walker in Eldorado, Kansas in 1923; reared in Kansas City; graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia; and served with the U.S. Army in Italy as a 1st Lieutenant in World War II. At age twelve he sold his first cartoon, at fifteen was drawing a comic strip, The Lime Juicers, for the Kansas City Journal. At twenty-six he married Jean Walker and created Beetle Bailey which he sold to King Features Syndicate. His honors include the Reuben Award, 1953; "Silver Lady" outst...