ABSTRACT
The son of James Hitchcock and Adalaide Rickets Ford, Corey Ford was born in New York City on April 29, 1902. He was raised in the city and attended Columbia University where he worked on the staff of the Jester, the university humor magazine. Deciding to pursue a career as a writer, Ford left Columbia in 1923 without taking a degree and moved quickly into the circle of humorists who wrote for such magazines as Life and Vanity Fair. With the outbreak of World War II, Ford served in the US Army Air Force for a time before joining the Office of Strategic Services. Spending most of the war in the OSS, he attained the rank of colonel. Though humor writing was no longer his major concern, he did write a number of book-length parodies during the 1950s and 1960s. Ford died in Hanover, New Hampshire, on July 27, 1969.
