Jessie Wright Whitcomb, a Topeka writer of juvenile books is a lawyer in
active practice with her husband, Judge George H. Whitcomb and a mother
of a remarkable family of five boys and one girl. The oldest son gained
his A. B. in 1910 at the age of eighteen; in 1911 was appointed Rhodes
scholar for Kansas; and is now a student at Oxford. His father and
mother are in England at present visiting him.
Mrs. Whitcomb is a contributor to the magazines and in addition, has
written "Odd Little Lass," "Freshman and Senior," "Majorbanks," "His
Best Friend," "Pen's Venture," "Queer As She Could Be," and "Curly
Head."
She is a graduate of the University of Vermont and the Boston University
Law School and was the first woman to lecture before a man's law school.