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Bari Wood (born December 31, 1936) is an American
author An author is the writer of a book, article, play, mostly written work. A broader definition of the word "author" states: "''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
of science fiction, crime and horror novels.


Life and work

Wood was born in 1936 in
Jacksonville, Illinois Jacksonville is a city in Morgan County, Illinois, Morgan County, Illinois, United States. The population was 19,446 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Morgan County. It is home to Illinois College, Illinois School for the Deaf, and the ...
, the daughter of Israel S. Prosterman and Gertrude Ritman. She grew up in and around Chicago, and graduated from
Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...
in Evanston, Illinois with a degree in English. She moved to New York in 1957, where she first worked in the library of the
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, later as editor of the society's publication, ''CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians'' and of the medical journal ''Drug Therapy''. In the early 1970s she began writing fiction. In New York she fell in love with and married Dr. Gilbert Congdon Wood (b. 1915 – d. 2000), a biologist for the American Cancer Society. In 1981 they moved to a farmhouse in Ridgefield,
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. In 2008, she married Dennis Preston Kazee and moved to
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,
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. Wood wrote her first novel, ''The Killing Gift'', in 1975. It won the Putnam Prize for high-quality novels.''The Bowker annual of library and book trade information'', vol. 21, New York, NY: R.R. Bowker, 1976, p. 430. It was followed by ''Twins'', co-written with Jack Geasland in 1977. In 1988 the novel was adapted into a film under the title '' Dead Ringers'' with Jeremy Irons in the eponymous lead roles. Her 1993 novel ''Doll's Eyes'' was adapted into a film titled ''In Dreams'' in 1999.


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Fantastic Fiction
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Illinois Center For The Book
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