author
George Van Schaick
1861–1924
A New York physician who turned his love of wilderness travel into lively fiction, George Van Schaick wrote stories filled with remote villages, frontier landscapes, doctors, trappers, and unforgettable characters. His novels blend adventure, romance, and close observation of life far from the city.
3 Audiobooks
A Top-Floor Idyl
by George Van Schaick
The Peace of Roaring River
by George Van Schaick
Sweetapple Cove
by George Van Schaick
About the author
George Van Schaick (1861–1924) was an American physician and novelist. He also published medical writing under his full name, George Gray Van Schaick, including Regional Minor Surgery, and was associated with the French Hospital in New York as a surgeon.
His fiction includes Sweetapple Cove (1914), The Son of the Otter (1915), The Girl at Big Loon Post (1916), A Top-Floor Idyl (1917), and The Peace of Roaring River (1918). Several of his novels draw on Canadian and northern wilderness settings, portraying fishing villages, frontier communities, and the people who lived beyond the main roads.
Contemporary accounts described Van Schaick as an eminent New York physician who spent his vacations far from civilization among Indians, trappers, and lumber workers. Those journeys supplied much of the atmosphere and local knowledge that shaped his novels.