Biography

Ham Fisher was born on September 24, 1900 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for The Joe Palooka Story (1954), Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950) and Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (1949). He died on December 27, 1955 in New York, New York, USA.

Creator of comic strip "Joe Palooka."

He lived in a Spanish-styled mansion on South Lake Shore Drive in Carol Beach in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Boxer Joe Louis often trained there, arriving by Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee interurban trains at the Tobin Road station. In the summer of 1954, a year before his death by suicide, Fisher's mansion was destroyed by a massive "northeaster" storm off Lake Michigan, although the empty shell of the house remained for some years thereafter.