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Writer

William Jourdan Rapp (June 17, 1895 - 1942) was a writer and editor in the United States. He wrote plays, novels, and radio scripts. He edited True Story magazine.

Rapp was born in New York City. He graduated from Cornell in 1917 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.

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.

He wrote with Wallace Thurman, Hughes Allison, and Lowell Brentano.

He married actress Virginia Venable Rapp and had a son and daughter.

Plays

  • Osman Pasha
  • Whirlpool (1929)
  • Hilda Cassidy
  • Substitute for Murder
  • Holmses of Baker Street
  • Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro life in Harlem written with Wallace Thurman, 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"

Books

  • When I Was a Boy in Turkey
  • Looking Down from Olympus
  • Poolroom

References

  1. "William Jourdan Rapp (Writer)". Playbill.
  2. ^ "William Rapp, Playwright born". African American Registry.
  3. Wallace Thurman's Harlem Renaissance. Rodopi. 1994. ISBN 9789051836929.
  4. 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.
  5. ^ "William J. Rapp papers - Archives West". archiveswest.orbiscascade.org.
  6. "Death of William Jourdan Rapp, 1942". Poughkeepsie Journal. August 13, 1942. p. 15 – via newspapers.com.
  7. "William Jourdan Rapp – Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
  8. Atkinson, J. Brooks (December 4, 1929). "THE PLAY:Love Comes to the Parson". The New York Times. p. 40. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 104719414.
  9. "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}.
  10. 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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