Ralph Stock

Ralph Stock was an English writer and screenwriter whose dates are commonly given as 1881–1962. Sources available here describe him as a travel writer as well as a novelist and short-story writer, with several books drawn from his own journeys.

His published works include The Confessions of a Tenderfoot (1913), The Chequered Cruise (1916), and The Cruise of the Dream Ship (1921). Accounts of his career say he traveled widely, including through Canada, the South Seas, and Australia, and that those experiences fed directly into his books.

He is also remembered for writing screenplays in addition to prose. While the surviving summaries are brief, they consistently present him as a versatile early-20th-century author who blended travel, storytelling, and adventure.