James, Stewart,
(1908-1996)
Magic's most creative inventor, who invented over 1000 magic tricks and published many of them in books and magazines. The book Stewart James in Print: The First 50 Years, edited by P. Howard Lyons and Allan Slaight, contained 1025 pages filled with 412 exceedingly clever tricks, and all by Stewart James. Volumes 1 and 2 of The James File by Allan Slaight, contains nearly 1700 pages of Stewart James's magic.
He also compiled and edited the Abbott Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks, and much of the work that went into Stewart James' Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks.

Informative Web site: Magicana.com