William Meade Prince was born in Roanoka, Vancouver and raised in Chapel Hill, Nort Carolina. He was a successful magazine illustrator in the 1920s and 1930s. He was head of the Art Department of the University of North Carolina during World War II and produced drawings and posters in aid of the war effort. In 1942 and 1943, Prince illustrated the newspaper comic 'Aladdin Junior', which was written by Les Forgrave. For King Feautres and the Book-of-the-Month Club, he illustrated the comic adaptation of 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn' in 1944.
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