Clement Wood

'''Clement Richardson Wood''' (September 1, 1888<ref name="UA"/> – October 26, 1950<ref name="Obit1950"/><ref name="UA"/>) was an American writer, lawyer and political activist.

He graduated from the University of Alabama in 1909 and received his law degree from Yale in 1911.

Wood's second<ref name="Bair"/> marriage was to Gloria Goddard, who wrote the ''Susan Merton'' series of adventures under the pen name "Louise Logan."<ref name="Obit1950"/> He also had at least one son, John Thornton Wood.<ref name="Obit1950"/>

==Writing career== Wood mainly wrote poetry. He also wrote ''Tom Sawyer Grows Up'', a sequel to Mark Twain's work.

He appeared frequently in pulp magazines, in titles as diverse as ''Telling Tales'', ''Gangster Stories'', ''Flynn's'', and ''Ace-High Magazine''. His story "The Coffin" was included in ''The Best Short Stories of 1922''.<ref name="Smith1997"/>

In 1929, he wrote the biography, ''Bernarr Macfadden: A Study in Success'', in aid of Macfadden's political aspirations.

==Politics== Wood was a member of the Socialist Party of America and ran for mayor of Birmingham in 1913 as the party's nominee. He was also endorsed by the Birmingham Labor Advocate and Birmingham Trades Council. Wood lost to the Democratic Party candidate by 10%.<ref name="Hild2010"/>

He was a member and lecturer of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism.<ref name="UA"/>

==References== <references> <ref name="Bair">{{cite web |title=The White Peacock |website=Lorne Bair Rare Books |url=https://www.lornebair.com/pages/books/47472/clement-wood/the-white-peacock |quote=an impassioned tribute to his second wife, Gloria Goddard (pseud. Louise Logan; she penned the popular wartime "Susan Merton" books)}}</ref>

<ref name="Hild2010">{{cite book |author=Matthew Hild |title=Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South |date=2010-02-25 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |isbn=9780820336565 |pages=212– |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6pe7kaB1TcgC&pg=PA212 |accessdate=2016-04-10}}</ref>

<ref name="Obit1950">{{cite news |title=Clement Wood, famed novelist, dies at age 62 |author=Associated Press |newspaper=Corpus Christi Times |date=1950-10-27 |url=https://www.newspaperarchive.com/us/texas/corpus-christi/corpus-christi-times/1950/10-27/page-41/ |page=5-D}}</ref>

<ref name="Smith1997">{{Cite book |title=American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography |author=Geoffrey D. Smith |year=1997 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9780521434690 |page=59 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanfiction10000smit/page/59 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

<ref name="UA">{{cite web |title=WOOD, CLEMENT RICHARDSON, 1888-1950 |url=https://www.lib.ua.edu/Alabama_Authors/?p=2309 |publisher=University of Alabama Library}}</ref> </references>

==External links== {{wikisource|works=or}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20121122174002/http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/wood_clement.html Strangers to Us All • Lawyers and Poetryː Clement Wood] (Selected poems, biography, bibliography) *[https://web.archive.org/web/20120211023754/http://www.haldeman-julius.org/haldeman-julius-resources/authors/clement-wood.html Resources for Collectorsː Author Profile of Clement Wood] (Biography, bibliography) *[http://alabamaliterarymap.lib.ua.edu/author?AuthorID=102 This Goodly Landˑː Alabamaˈs Literary Heritage] * {{Gutenberg author | id=40354 | name=Clement Wood}} * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Clement Richardson Wood}} {{Authority control}}

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