Helen Aberson-Mayer (June 16, 1907 – April 3, 1999)[1][2] was an American children's book author.
Aberson-Mayer was best known for co-authoring the story that inspired Walt Disney's 1941 film Dumbo.
[3] In collaboration with her then husband, Harold Pearl, Aberson-Mayer wrote Dumbo the Flying Elephant and sold it to Roll-A-Book, the publisher of a kind of novelty toy, although no copies of this original version have been found.
[4] Everett Whitmyre, the Syracuse advertising agent behind Roll-a-Book, sold the story to Walt Disney Productions in 1939.
A series of Disney Golden Book versions of the story began publication in 1940.