ABSTRACT
Poppy Ott, a character in a series of boys’ books, emerged as a hero for Jerome Singer in his preadolescent and early adolescent years. Poppy Ott was clever, intellectually gifted, and in Singer’s fantasies became a football superstar, although the original stories had nothing to do with the game. Other fantasy figures of his, the distinguished senator and the great composer, helped fill Singer’s idle moments through the use of his vivid imagination and elaborate daydreaming. With detailed drawings and scribblings in his notebooks, he depicted these figures as well as an assortment of associated characters.
