The Peter Pan Alphabet (Esprios Classics)

Oliver Herford (2 December 1860 - 5 July 1935) was an English writer artist and illustrator. He was born in Sheffield England on 2 December 1860 to Rev. Brooke Herford and Hannah Hankinson Herford. Oliver's father Brooke was a Unitarian minister who moved the family to Chicago in 1876 and to Boston in 1882. Oliver attended Antioch College in Yellow Springs Ohio from 1877 to 1879. Later he studied art at the Slade School in London and the Académie Julien in Paris. Afterward he moved to New York where he lived until his death. He has been called The American Oscar Wilde. As a frequent contributor to The Mentor Life and Ladies' Home Journal he sometimes signed his artwork as O Herford. In 1906 he wrote and illustrated the Little Book of Bores. He also wrote short poems like The Chimpanzee and The Hen as well as writing and illustrating The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten (1904) and Excuse It Please (1930).