Jessie Wright Whitcomb,a Topeka writer of juvenile books is a lawyer in active practice with her husband,Judge George H.Whitcomb and a mother of a remarkable family of five boys and one girl.The oldest son gained his A.B.in 1910at the age of eighteen;in 1911was appointed Rhodes scholar for Kansas;and is now a student at Oxford.His father and mother are in England at present visiting him.
Mrs.Whitcomb is a contributor to the magazines and in addition,has written Odd Little Lass,Freshman and Senior,Majorbanks,His Best Friend,Pen's Venture,Queer As She Could Be,and Curly Head.
She is a graduate of the University of Vermont and the Boston University Law School and was the first woman to lecture before a man's law school.