Violet Idelle Moore was born in
Elgin, Illinois on November 28, 1886. She graduated from
Elgin High School, a
public high school, in 1905. In the early 1900s, she attended the
Art Institute of Chicago. In 1910, she married artist Edward Robert Higgins, who was an art director for the
Newspaper Enterprise Artists Services (NEA) of
Scripps-Howard. They had a son, Lindley Roberts Higgins. They had a daughter named Mary Elizabeth Higgins in 1912, who died at one year old in 1913. In 1913, Higgins painted a cover for the
Saturday Evening Post that focused on the
United States women's suffrage movement. Around the mid-1910s, she created a series of books for the Whitman Publishing Co. under the name "Story Time Tales". The books contained retellings of traditional stories from different areas of the world. By the 1920s, Higgins worked for newspapers as a journalist. She interviewed and wrote articles about celebrities, and wrote and illustrated for the NEA along with her husband. Higgins was also the illustrator of the
comic strip "Drowsy Dick", first published in the
Sunday World. The comic was originally illustrated by Ernest J. King, but after less than a month, the strip was taken over by Higgins. Her first comic of "Drowsy Dick" was published on October 10, 1926. The cartoon was later dropped from the newspaper when they lowered their number of comic pages. In the 1920s, after readers asked about the comic's absence, the comic was brought back and published in the
New York World. Between 1946 and 1947, she additionally was an illustrator for the comic book,
Treasure Chest. From 1954 to 1963, she was a
feature writer and illustrator for the
Associated Press, with an illustrated children's feature named "Junior Editors". "Junior Editors" started in 1954 and was meant to capture children's attention during the competing rise of magazines and television. The feature ran six times a week and included text and a
do-it-yourself section for children. Higgins died at age 80 on July 28, 1967, in
New York City. At the time of her death, she lived in
The Bronx. ==Gallery==