Eric S. Hatch (October 31, 1901 - July 4, 1973) was an American writer on the staff of The New Yorker and a novelist and screenwriter best known for his novels 1101 Park Avenue, (which became the hit 1936 film, My Man Godfrey) and The Year of the Horse (adapted as the 1968 Disney comedy, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit).[1]