George Shepard Chappell

George Shepard Chappell (1877-1946) was an American architect, journalist (with the magazine Vanity Fair) and author. He graduated from Yale University in 1899 and then trained at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He wrote several humorous books during the 1920s and early 1930s, including a series of travel parodies under the pseudonym of Walter E. Traprock.

Bibliography

As well as numerous magazine articles, books authored or coauthored by Chappell include:

• 1918 – An architectural monograph on colonial architecture in Vermont. White Pine Bureau. (With Russell Fenimore).
• 1920 – High Society: Hints on How to Attain, Relish, and Survive It. Putnam: New York. (With Dorothy Parker. Illustrated by Fish).
• 1921 – The Cruise of the Kawa. Wanderings in the South Seas. Putnam: New York. (As Walter E. Traprock).
• 1922 – My Northern Exposure (the Kawa at the Pole). Putnam: New York. (As Walter E. Traprock).
• 1922 – Rollo in Society: a Guide for Youth. Putnam: New York. (Illustrated by Rockwell Kent as “William Hogarth Jr”).
• 1924 – A Basket of Poses. Albert & Charles Boni: New York. (Illustrated by Rockwell Kent as “William Hogarth Jr”).
• 1925 – Sarah of the Sahara: a Romance of Nomads Land. Putnam: New York. (As Walter E. Traprock).
• 1925 – The Restaurants of New York. New York.
• 1926 – The Younger Married Set. Houghton Mifflin: Boston. (Text illustrations by Gluyas Williams).
• 1930 – Through the alimentary canal with gun and camera, a fascinating trip to the interior. Stokes: New York. (Illustrated by Otto Soglow).
• 1930 – The Saloon in the Home, or a Garland of Rumblossoms. Coward-McCann: New York. (With Ridgely Hunt. Illustrated by John Held, Jr.).
• 1931 – Dr Traprock's Memory Book; or, Aged in the Wood. Putnam: New York.
• 1931 – The Gardener’s Friend and Other Pests. Stokes: New York. (With Ridgely Hunt. Illustrated by H. W. Haenigsen).
• 1932 – Evil Through the Ages: An Outline in Indecency. Stokes: New York. (Illustrated by Otto Soglow).
• 1933 – Shoal Water. Putnam: New York.

References

• alibris: The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas
• Edgar Rice Burroughs Library: Walter E. Traprock
• Katz, Alvin. (31 October 2001). Humor in the 1920s. Notes of a Used and Out-of-Print Book Dealer 15.[1]
• Leverenz, Scott. (31 December 2005). Traprock.net: FAQ [2]

External links

• Works by George Shepard Chappell at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about George Shepard Chappell in libraries (WorldCat catalog)