A member of the Lockport High School Glee Club and the Lockport High School basketball team (1922),[2] Ferrin Fraser was in the Columbia University class of 1927 but did not graduate.

His first successful work for radio was "A Piece of String," adapted from the Guy de Maupassant short story.

Dramatic and thriller programs with scripts by Fraser include Suspense, Lights Out and Nick Carter, Master Detective.

[5] Ferrin and his wife Beatrice Fraser published Bennie, the Bear Who Grew Too Fast (1956), a musical nonsense tale that teaches the names of various stringed instruments and the differences in their sizes and sounds, Arturo and Mr. Bang (1963) and other children's music books.

[6][7] Wife Beatrice Ryan Fraser, an author, composer and church musician, was a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and was a featured organist at the Eastman Theater and an organist with the Rochester Philharmonic.