Chappell, George S
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1877-1946) US architect and author, author of some Broadway musicals, well known in the 1920s as a humorist. Most of his work of genre interest was written as by Walter E Traprock; he also published essays on architectural subjects as by Tsquare. As Traprock, he is best known for the Kawa sequence of spoof travelogues beginning with The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas (1921) as by Walter E Traprock, and other similar titles. Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera: A Fascinating Trip to the Interior (1930), under his own name, explores the human body after the fashion of Alfred Taylor Schofield's Travels in the Interior (1887) as by Luke Courteney, though again mainly to spoof the venture; both titles crudely prefigure Isaac Asimov's belated Fantastic Voyage (1966) (see Great and Small). [JC]
George Shepard Chappell
born New London, Connecticut: 2 January 1877
died Banta, Connecticut: 25 November 1946
works
as by Walter E Traprock
series
Kawa
- The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1921) as by Walter E Traprock [Kawa: hb/]
- My Northern Exposure: The Kawa at the Pole (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1922) as by Walter E Traprock [Kawa: hb/]
- Sarah of the Sahara: A Romance of Nomads Land (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1923) as by Walter E Traprock [Kawa: hb/]
individual titles
- Dr Traprock's Memory Book; Or, Aged in Wood (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1930) as by Walter E Traprock [hb/]
as George S Chappell
- Through the Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera: A Fascinating Trip to the Interior (New York: Frederick A Stokes, 1930) [illus/hb/Otto Soglow]
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