Bunker Bean

Bunker Bean is a novel by Harry Leon Wilson. It was originally published as a serial under the title His Majesty Bunker Bean in The Saturday Evening Post beginning in the October 12, 1912 publication and ending in the December 14, 1912 edition. The nine issues were illustrated by Frederic Rodrigo Gruger. Well received, it was published in book form in January 1913 by Doubleday under the title Bunker Bean. The novel included one of the earliest representations of the "flapper" in literature; although many of the later stylized associations with that term such as bobbed hair and hip flasks did not emerge until later in the 1920s.