Part of a TRILOGY [1919, 1918 and 1917]. OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS and interviews with family and friends of Nell. __ Talented NELL BRINKLEY was America's "American Idol," our celebrated romantic writer and illustrator. She was born in Denver just before the 1890's. The "Denver Post" and later the "Denver Times," hired "little Smearo." __ She was asked to come to New York as an illustrator and reporter for Hearst's editor Arthur Brisbane at the "New...