Frank Callan Norris was born on March 3, 1907 in Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA, son of Ernest Eden and Kathryn Augusta (Callan) Norris. He died of a stroke on August 8, 1967 at his Nantucket Island summer home, Nantucket County, Massachusetts, USA. He was a magazine editor and novelist who created Smoky the Bear for a campaign against forest fires. His father was president of the Southern Railway. Norris grew up in Knoxville, Atlanta, Richmond and Washington. He graduated from Princeton University in 1929 and joined the staff of Time magazine where he was co-managing editor from 1937 to 1941 (he coined the term World War II) before becoming managing editor of the March of Time from 1941 to 1946; he then joined Newsweek as a senior editor and six years later retired to write fiction, producing three novels: “Tower in the West”, a parable of brotherly love, which won the 1957 Harper novel prize, “Nutro 29” and “At Last To Kiss Amanda”. He Married Lula Lee Bacon, September 2, 1931; he married his second wife, Marta Brodie, November 21, 1954. He had two children: Amanda Lee, Mary Bacon.