A museum curator wrote the first T. rex novel on his daily commute
The first T. rex novel, from 1915, beat Edgar Rice Burroughs by 3 years and a museum skeleton by 9 months.
Louis Pope Gratacap was the curator of mineralogy at the American Museum of Natural History from 1880 until his death in 1917. He usually read during his three-hour round trip to the museum from Staten Island. He also wrote novels,…
