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Line 3: She was born in [[Mendota, Illinois]], the daughter of Adolph Hokinson, a farm machinery salesman, and Mary Hokinson, the daughter of Phineas Wilcox, the "Carpenter Orator". She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (now known as the [[School of the Art Institute of Chicago]]), and worked as a freelance fashion illustrator in [[Chicago]] for department stores such as [[Marshall Fields]]. In 1920, Hokinson moved to [[New York City]] and began her career as a cartoonist. She was one of the first cartoonists to be published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', appearing in the magazine for the first time in 1925. She specialized in wealthy, plump, and ditsy society women and their foibles, referring to them as 'My Best Girls', those [[dowager]] denizens of ~~women~~woman's clubs, beauty parlors, art galleries, summer resorts, and Lane Bryant~~, when she gave them a title to one of her collections of ''The New Yorker'' drawings~~. According to [[James Thurber]] and [[Brendan Gill]], Hokinson relied on the magazine's staff writers to provide captions for her cartoons, a common practice at ''The New Yorker'' in the [[Harold Ross]] era, until entering into a professional partnership with James Reid Parker in 1931. Hokinson and Parker also provided a monthly cartoon for the ''[[Ladies Home Journal]]'' as well as occasional cartoons for advertising campaigns and other magazines. Hokinson died in the [[Eastern Airlines Flight 537]] mid-air collision at [[Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport\|Washington National Airport]] on November 1, 1949. She left dozens of cartoons, many of which were published by ''The New Yorker'' in subsequent months. Her estate published three volumes of her cartoons in the 1950s.

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