author
George Randolph Chester
1869–1924
Best remembered for the wildly popular Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford stories, he moved easily from newspaper work into fiction, theater, and the early film world. His writing has a brisk, satirical energy that captures the hustle and ambition of turn-of-the-century America.
6 Audiobooks
Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress
by George Randolph Chester
The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man
by George Randolph Chester
The Ball of Fire
by George Randolph Chester, Lillian Chester
The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story
by George Randolph Chester
Young Wallingford
by George Randolph Chester
Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford A Cheerful Account of the Rise and Fall of an American Business Buccaneer
by George Randolph Chester
About the author
Born on January 27, 1869, and dying on February 26, 1924, George Randolph Chester was an American writer whose career also reached into screenwriting, film editing, and directing. He is most closely associated with Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, the comic swindler who became his best-known creation.
Chester first worked in journalism before building a successful career as a magazine fiction writer. His stories were popular enough to cross into other media, and several of his works were adapted for the stage and for silent film during his lifetime.
That mix of popular storytelling and early screen work gives him an interesting place in American literary history. He wrote with a sharp commercial instinct and a lively sense of character, which helped his work travel far beyond the printed page.