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
Wallace Henry Thurman (August 16, 1902 – December 22, 1934) was an American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals. He is bes ...
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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
Wallace Henry Thurman (August 16, 1902 – December 22, 1934) was an American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance. He also wrote essays, worked as an editor, and was a publisher of short-lived newspapers and literary journals. He is bes ...
,[{{Cite journal, url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&issn=0163755X&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA128169772&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs, title=Harlem shadows: re-evaluating Wallace Thurman's The Blacker the Berry, first=I. I. I., last=Daniel M. Scott, date=September 22, 2004, journal=MELUS, volume=29, issue=3–4, pages=323–340, doi=10.2307/4141858 , jstor=4141858 , via=go.gale.com] adapting Thurman's first novel '' The Blacker the Berry'' to the stage
*''Jeremiah the Magnificent'' written with Wallace Thurman about Marcus Garvey
Marcus Mosiah Garvey Sr. (17 August 188710 June 1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African ...
and "Black Mecca"[{{Cite web, url=https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv50134, title=William J. Rapp papers - Archives West, website=archiveswest.orbiscascade.org]
Books
*''When I Was a Boy in Turkey''
*'' Looking Down from Olympus''
*''Poolroom''
References
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External links
Findagrave entry
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American male dramatists and playwrights
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
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1895 births
1942 deaths
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