Low Man on a Totem Pole Author:H. Allen Smith Harry Allen Wolfgang Smith (1907?1976) was an American journalist and humorist whose books were popular in the 1940s and 1950s. Smith dropped out of high school and began working odd jobs, eventually finding work as a journalist. — Smith began in 1922 at the Huntington Press, relocating in Jeffersonville, Indiana, Louisville, Kentucky, Florida,Tu... more »lsa, Oklahoma, Denver, and finally moving to New York in 1934.
He found fame when his humor book Low Man on a Totem Pole (1941) became a bestseller during WWII, popular not only on the home front, but also read on troop trains and at military camps.« less