Question: The author credited with the fable The Tortoise & The Hare was what kind of ethnicity?

Context articles: Toby Tortoise Returns
Elise M. Boulding
The Tortoise &amp; The Hare
The Story of The Tortoise &amp; the Hare
Jazz Jackrabbit
Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent
The Tortoise and the Hare (film)
An Collins
Aesop
Tortoise Wins by a Hare

Toby Tortoise Returns is an animated Technicolor cartoon in Walt Disney's "Silly Symphonies" series.
 It was directed by Wilfred Jackson.
 It is a sequel to "The Tortoise and the Hare".
 It premiered on August 22, 1936.
Elise M. Boulding (July 6, 1920 – June 24, 2010) was a Quaker sociologist, and author credited as a major contributor to creating the academic discipline of Peace and Conflict Studies.
 Her holistic, multidimensional approach to peace research sets her apart as an important scholar and activist in multiple fields.
 Her written works span several decades and range from discussion of family as a foundation for peace, to Quaker spirituality to reinventing the international “global culture.”
 Particularly of note is her emphasis on women and family in the peace process.
The Tortoise & The Hare is a 2013 picture book of Aesop's classic fable and is illustrated by Jerry Pinkney.
 It is about a tortoise and a hare that compete in a foot race with the tortoise surprisingly winning.
The Story of The Tortoise & the Hare is a stop motion short film directed and animated by Ray Harryhausen based on the Aesop fable "The Tortoise and the Hare".
Jazz Jackrabbit is a video game trilogy featuring the eponymous character of Jazz Jackrabbit, a green anthropomorphic hare, who fights with his turtle nemesis, Devan Shell, in a science fiction parody of the fable of "The Tortoise and the Hare".
 Created by Arjan Brussee and Cliff Bleszinski and developed by Epic MegaGames, the series debuted on the personal computer in 1994 with "Jazz Jackrabbit".
 The series consists of two computer games and a handheld console game.
Mr. Frank, the Underground Mail-Agent is an 1853 parody novel written by an unknown author credited as "Vidi".
The Tortoise and the Hare is an animated short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson.
 Based on an Aesop's fable of the same name, "The Tortoise and the Hare" won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject: Cartoons.
 This cartoon is also believed to be one of the inspirations for Bugs Bunny, who first appeared in 1940.
An Collins is an English poet, and the otherwise unknown author credited with the authorship of "Divine Songs and Meditacions", a collection of poems and prose meditations published in 1653.
Aesop ( ; Ancient Greek: Αἴσωπος , "Aisōpos "; c. 620 – 564 BCE) was a Greek fabulist and story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as "Aesop's Fables".
 Although his existence remains unclear and no writings by him survive, numerous tales credited to him were gathered across the centuries and in many languages in a storytelling tradition that continues to this day.
 Many of the tales are characterized by animals and inanimate objects that speak, solve problems, and generally have human characteristics.
Tortoise Wins by a Hare is a Merrie Melodies cartoon released on February 20, 1943 and directed by Bob Clampett.
 It stars Bugs Bunny and Cecil Turtle.
 Bob Clampett took Tex Avery's scenario from "Tortoise Beats Hare" and altered it for this film.
 The title is an appropriate pun on "hair".
 This is one of the first shorts to feature Robert McKimson's design of Bugs Bunny.
 A newspaper's front page (the "Chicago Sunday Tribunk") shown in this cartoon accurately predicts Adolf Hitler's suicide two years later.