Sewell Ford (1868-1946) was an American prolific author who wrote Horses Nine: Stories of Harness and Saddle (1903), Shorty McCabe (1906), Cherub Divine (1907), Side-Stepping with Shorty (1908), Torchy (1911), Trying Out Torchy (1912), Odd Numbers (1912), On With Torchy (1914), Torchy, Private Sec. (1915), Shorty McCabe on the Job (1915), Wilt Thou Torchy (1917), The House of Torchy (1918), Torchy and Vee (1919) and Torchy as a Pa (1921).