Don Quinn (November 18, 1900 – December 30, 1967) was an American comedy writer who started out as a cartoonist based in Chicago.

However, what little is known is that after discovering that, even though his drawings were thrown away by magazines, his captions were kept, Quinn found a job at WENR in Chicago writing for some of the up-and-coming comedians there.

After the wife of a Johnson Wax executive heard the program, the Jordans, and Quinn, moved to their more memorable radio series Fibber McGee and Molly.

Many from the show remember that he would wait until the last minute then lock himself in his office with a big plate of sandwiches, a huge pot of coffee, and two cartons of cigarettes.

[1] Fibber McGee co-star Gale Gordon once recalled that Quinn would sometimes send his ideas to other radio comedians including Fred Allen.

In 1950, Quinn created The Halls of Ivy a lighthearted comedy about a professor, William Todhunter Hall, the president of Ivy, a small Midwestern College, and his wife, Victoria, a former British musical comedy star who sometimes felt the tug of her former profession, and followed their interactions with students, friends, and college trustees.

[7] The audition episode originally starred Gale Gordon, (of Our Miss Brooks fame), and Edna Best as William and Victoria Hall.

Gordon and Best were replaced by Ronald Colman and Benita Hume during the show's actual radio run; they had made a lasting impression with their numerous appearances on The Jack Benny Program in the late 1940s.

According to the Internet Movie Database, Quinn also composed the theme song to the short-lived Desilu-CBS western series Yancy Derringer.