George Shepard Chappell

He was born and died in Connecticut, USA, studied at Yale, and trained as an architect at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. After compiling An Architectural Monograph on Colonial Architecture in Vermont, he wrote more than a dozen mostly humerous books, the last of which was published in 1933. Many of these were under the pseudonym of Walter E Traprock. Information retrieved from Wikipedia, 7 September, 2014.