Sewell Ford

Born in South Levant, Maine, on March 7, 1868, he spent much of his youth in Cheboygan, Michigan, before his family moved to Haverhill, Massachusetts. He later worked as a newspaper reporter in Haverhill, Boston, Baltimore, and New York, and was also part of the editorial staff of the American Press Association.

He became widely known for light, entertaining fiction, especially the Shorty McCabe and Torchy stories. Those books helped make him a familiar name to magazine readers in the early 1900s, and his work often mixed humor, urban energy, and quick-moving dialogue.

He died on October 26, 1946, in Keene, New Hampshire. I couldn't confirm a suitable portrait image from reliable pages checked here, so no profile image is included.