Clement Richardson Wood (September 1, 1888 – October 26, 1950) was an American writer, lawyer and political activist. He graduated from the

University of Alabama The University of Alabama (informally known as Alabama, UA, or Bama) is a Public university, public research university in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Established in 1820 and opened to students in 1831, the University of Alabama is the oldest and la ...

in 1909 and received his law degree from

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in 1911. Wood's second marriage was to Gloria Goddard, who wrote the ''Susan Merton'' series of adventures under the pen name "Louise Logan." He also had at least one son, John Thornton Wood.

Writing career

Wood mainly wrote

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

. He also wrote ''Tom Sawyer Grows Up'', a sequel to

Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has p ...

work Work may refer to: * Work (human activity), intentional activity people perform to support themselves, others, or the community ** Manual labour, physical work done by humans ** House work, housework, or homemaking ** Working animal, an animal tr ...

. He appeared frequently in

pulp magazine Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazine ...

s, in titles as diverse as ''Telling Tales'', ''

Gangster Stories ''Gangster Stories'' was a controversial pulp magazine of the early 1930s. It featured hardboiled crime fiction that glorified the gun-toting gangsters of the Prohibition era. It was published by Harold Hersey, as part of his Good Story Magazine Com ...

'', ''Flynn's'', and ''Ace-High Magazine''. His story "The Coffin" was included in ''The Best Short Stories of 1922''. 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 The Socialist Party of America (SPA) was a socialist political party in the United States formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party of Ameri ...

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 only 10%. He was a member and lecturer of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism.

References

External links

Strangers to Us All • Lawyers and Poetryː Clement Wood
(Selected poems, biography, bibliography)

(Biography, bibliography)
This Goodly Landˑː Alabamaˈs Literary Heritage
* * 1888 births 1950 deaths Writers from Tuscaloosa, Alabama Writers from Birmingham, Alabama University of Alabama alumni Yale Law School alumni Alabama lawyers 20th-century American poets Socialist Party of America politicians from Alabama 20th-century American lawyers {{US-poet-1880s-stub