George Helgesen Fitch (June 5, 1877 – August 9, 1915) was an American author, humorist, and journalist perhaps best known for his stories about fictional Siwash College.

He worked as a reporter for a number of midwest newspapers including the Council Bluffs, Iowa Daily Nonpareil and the Peoria, Illinois Herald-Transcript.

Eventually he became frequently published in national magazines, breaking in with his popular "Megaphone" series satirizing urban America.

First appearing in the Saturday Evening Post in 1908, they focused on characters including football player Ole Skjarson and Petey Simmons, a coach who paid his "amateur" athletes as well as the fraternity Eta Bita Pie.

[3] Fitch gave an early form of the adage "Journalism is the first rough draft of history": See Wikiquote article for details.