Smith described the author as well-spoken and gentlemanly, short of stature, with a pleasant, smooth tone.Smith says he met the author in a hotel room and was paid for his artwork with a check.Marshall Smith did the illustrations for the book.Some of the illustrations in the book carry a copyright statement right beneath the drawing, but others don't.
The author points out in the introduction the need for money.The author's last name in reverse is "e s andrews".Andrews who was active around the turn of the century and whose biography seems to fit Erdnase's. Karr's candidate is identified as a Midwestern-based con artist named E. The candidates by Alexander and Hatch have been profiled in (respectively) Genii, MAGIC and Magicol. There are numerous possible candidates discovered by David Alexander, Richard Hatch, and Todd Karr (among others), any of whom might be the pseudonymous author. Andrews, lending support to the theory that Andrews was the author's last name) Martin Gardner's research, now largely discredited, proposes that the real Erdnase was Milton Franklin Andrews, and that the book was ghost-written by William John Hilliar. 1 Research into the identity of Erdnase.
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