On this day, July 11, 1913, illustrator Harold William McCauley was born in Chicago, Illinois. At the age of 14, McCauley studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with J. Allen St. John and later at the American Academy of Art also in Chicago. From 1939 to 1942 McCauley worked in Haddon Sundblom’s Chicago studio, and after 1946 he worked for Ziff-Davis creating pulp cover illustrations.