Raymond's parents were Harry Abrashkin, born in what is now
Kropyvnytskyi,
Ukraine, and Bertha Kornfeld, born in England. Raymond was born in
Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from the
City College of New York and taught in
New York City public schools. His writing career began as the education editor of
PM Newspaper. He became the principal writer for Young People's Records. He wrote the syndicated comic strip
Timmy, drawn by Howard Sparber. Around 1935, he married Evelyn Kurinski. They had two children, John Michael (West) Abrashkin, an artist (1941–1992), and William Henry (Hank) Abrashkin, a Trial Court Judge in Massachusetts (b. 1944). There are two grandchildren, Karen Anna Abrashkin (b. 1981) and John Raymond Abrashkin (b. 1983). During
World War II Abrashkin served in the
United States Maritime Service on supply ships in the Atlantic. During and after the war, he lived in
Greenwich Village, New York. In 1951 he and his family moved to a converted barn in
Weston, Connecticut, where he lived for the remainder of his life. ==
Little Fugitive==