1940 Press Photo Everett Rhodes Castle, Famous Author, at Home Smoking

Everett Rhodes Castle, Famous Author, paused here with his wife on way to Guatemala. The creator of such beloved characters of fiction as the irrepressible Mrs. Tupper and the fraudulent Colonel Humphrey Flack was in New Orleans today. Everett Rhodes Castle, whose series on Mrs. Tupper's adventures is currently running in the Sunday Item-Tribune This Week magazine, and who has been creating Colonel Humphrey Flack to grace the pages of the Saturday Evening Post these many years.

Photo is dated 1940.

Photo measures 7 x 9 inches.