William Jourdan Rapp (June 17, 1895 - 1942) was a writer and editor in the United States. He wrote plays,[1] novels, and radio scripts. He edited True Story magazine.
Rapp was born in New York City. He graduated from Cornell in 1917[2] and worked as a health inspector in New York City until World War I. He served in France. After the war he also worked in Turkey.[3]
He kept a scrapbook during his time at a YMCA camp in Greece. He went on to edit the popular True Story magazine and various radio series. In 1925 he wrote a piece in the New York Times about French Royalists.[4]
He wrote with Wallace Thurman, Hughes Allison, and Lowell Brentano.[5]
He married actress Virginia Venable Rapp and had a son and daughter.[6]
Plays
edit- Osman Pasha[2]
- Whirlpool (1929)[7][8]
- Hilda Cassidy
- Substitute for Murder[9]
- Holmses of Baker Street
- Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro life in Harlem written with Wallace Thurman,[10] adapting Thurman's first novel The Blacker the Berry to the stage
- Jeremiah the Magnificent written with Wallace Thurman about Marcus Garvey and "Black Mecca"[5]
Books
edit- When I Was a Boy in Turkey
- Looking Down from Olympus
- Poolroom
References
edit- ^ "William Jourdan Rapp (Writer)". Playbill.
- ^ a b "William Rapp, Playwright born". African American Registry.
- ^ Wallace Thurman's Harlem Renaissance. Rodopi. 1994. ISBN 9789051836929.
- ^ Rapp, William Jourdan (September 6, 1925). "FRENCH ROYALISTS STILL LIVE IN HOPE; " Camelots du Roi," Militant Supporters of the Pretender, Have Gained in Influence Since the War" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ a b "William J. Rapp papers - Archives West". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
- ^ "Death of William Jourdan Rapp, 1942". Poughkeepsie Journal. August 13, 1942. p. 15 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ "William Jourdan Rapp – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- ^ Atkinson, J. Brooks (December 4, 1929). "THE PLAY:Love Comes to the Parson". The New York Times. p. 40. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 104719414.
- ^ "NEWS OF THE STAGE:' Substitute for Murder' Descends This Evening on The Ethel Barrymore Theatre". The New York Times. October 22, 1935. p. 16. ISSN 0362-4331. {{Proquest|101317343}.
- ^ Daniel M. Scott, I. I. I. (September 22, 2004). "Harlem shadows: re-evaluating Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry". MELUS. 29 (3–4): 323–340. doi:10.2307/4141858. JSTOR 4141858 – via go.gale.com.
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