Background
Wood, Clement was born on September 1, 1888 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Son of Sterling Alexander and Ida May (Richardson) Wood.
Wood, Clement was born on September 1, 1888 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States. Son of Sterling Alexander and Ida May (Richardson) Wood.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Alabama, 1909. Bachelor of Laws, Yale, 1911.
Practiced law at Birmingham, Alabama, 1911-1912, assistant city attorney, 1912-1913. Recorder, Birmingham, 1913. Teacher, Pingry School, Elizabeth, New Jersey, 1914-1915.
With Barnard School for Boys, New York City, 1915-1920, principal Upper School of same, 1919-1920. Vice-principal Dwight School New York City, 1920-1922. Secretary New York Preparatory School, 1920-1923.
Vice president Bankers Financial Trust since 1934. Visiting lecturer Division of General Education, New York University, 1939, instructor in versification, 1940. Instructor in versification, Richmond Professional Institute, 1941-1942.
Resident poet, College of William and Mary, Richmond Division, 1941-1942. Founder, director, Bozenkill School of Creative Writing. Vice-president Service Kits, Inc., since 1941.
President, Special Social Services, Inc., since 1942. Member Schoolmasters Association of New York, Poetry Society America, Catholic Poetry Society America, Songwriters Protective Association, The Writers, Bookfellows, American Literary Association (president 1924-1926), Poetry Society Alabama, Poetry Institute, of America (director), Poetry Society of Virginia, National Poetry Society of America (member academic), American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Southern Society of New York, Sons of Confederate Veterans (member headquarters camp, Richmond. Assistant historian in chief since 1933), Order Stars and Bars (assistant historian-general 1938), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Gamma Delta, Theta Nu Epsilon, Delta Sigma Rho.
Author: (poems) Glad of Earth, 1917. The Earth Turns South, 1919. Jehovah, 1920; Mountain (novel), 1920.
The Laugher, 1922; Nigger (novel), 1922. The Tide Comes In (poems), 1923. For Walt Whitman (with Mildred Cummer Wood), 1923.
The Stone Age, 1923; Poets of America, 1924. Folly (novel), 1925; The Eagle Flies (poems), 1925. The Greenwich Village Blues, 1926.
Amy Lowell—A Critical Life, 1926. A Slang Dictionary (with Gloria Goddard), 1926. The Outlone of Man’s Knowledge, 1927.
Don’t Tread on Me—A Study of Aggressive Legal Action for Labor Unions (with Arthur Garfield Hays), 1927. The Shadow From the Bogue, 1928. Ivanhoe (comic opera), produced 1927.
Cipher Stories Puzzle Book, 1928. The White Peacock (verse), 1928. King Henry the Rake, 1929.
The Craft of Poetry, 1929. Hunters of Heaven—The American Soul as Revealed by Its Poetry, 1929. Flesh, and Other Stories, 1929.
The Sociology of Lester Ward, 1930. Six Indiscreet Lovers, 1930. Macfadden, the Conqueror, 1930.
Dreams—Their Meaning and Practical Interpretation, 1931. The Tabloid Murders, 1931. Honeymoon, 1931; The Woman Who Was Pope, 1931.
The Man Who Killed Kitchener, 1932. Warren Gamaliel Harding—An American Comedy, 1932. Herbert Clark Hoover—An American Tragedy, 1932.
Your Dreams, and What They Mean, 1933. Deep River (novel), 1934. If There Is a Hell (novel), 1934.
The Life of a Man—A Biography of John R. Brinkley, 1934. A Popular History of the World, 1935. A Complete History of the United States, 1935.
The Glory Road; an Autobiography (collected poems), 1936. The Complete Rhyming Dictionary and Poet’s Craft Book, 1936. A History of he World (5 vols.), 1937.
Lays for the Laity, 1937. Games for Two (with Gloria Goddard), 1937. Carelessness: Public Enemy Northern 1, 1937.
The Complete Book of Games (with Gloria Goddard), 1938. Let’s Have a Good Time Tonight: an Omnibus of Party Games (with Gloria Goddard), 1938. Let’s Play the Game: The Complete Book of Charades, 1939.
Tom Sawyer Grows Up, 1939. The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (published anonymously), 1939. More Power to Your Words, 1940.
More Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1940. Poets Handbook, 1940. The 1941 Quiz Book (with Gloria Goddard), 1941.
Ripe Olives (poems), 1941. The Unabridged Rhyming Dictionary and Complete Formbook for Poets, 1943. The Sensualist (novel), 1941.
Efil: A Masque, 1942. The Eagle Sonnets, 1942. The United States of the World: Permanent Global Peace the AmericanWay, 1943.
The Poetry Workshop: Writing and Marketing Poetry, 1943. Death in Ankara, 1944. Death on the Pampas, 1944.
The Corpse in the Guest Room, 1945. Emily Dickinson, the Volcanic Heart, 1945. The Song of Sapph. 1945.
The Art and Technique of Versification, 1945. Global Quiz Book, 1946. Double Jeopardy, 1947.
The Eagle Returns, 1947. Rombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die, 1947. The Ballad of Jonathon Swain and Other Poems, 1947.
The Ballad of Sally Skull and the Corpus Christi Squite, 1948. Poet and Songwriters Guide: the Complete Book of Sansion, 1948. The Glory Road and The Eagle Sonnets, 1950.
Many novels over the pseudonym of Alan Dubois, Alvin Winston, etc. Biographical Forewards on Poe, Whitman, Lanier, Emerson, Kilmer, and others, to the annual Muse anthologies since 1940. Also over sixty-five books in Haldeman-Julius “Little Blue Books,” on literature and scientific themes.
Editor: Summaries of Buckle and Lacky, The Vanguard Series. Writer of The Glory Road, Gwine to Heaven, Short’nin’ Bread, and Five Songs on Negro Themes, and also Cahawba Days, a song cycle, 1933, also Carry Me Home and Weeping Mary (with Leonard Thomas), 1935, The Dummy Line and If the Seas Dry (with Carroll Ely), 1935. The Lord’s Baptizing (with David Guion), 1939.
Contributing editor Voices, The Circle, The Harp, The New Leader, Popular Biography, Better English, Interchange, Poetry Caravan, The Southern Literary Messenger, Kansas City Poetry Magazine, etc. Publisher and editor The Bozenkill Breeze, since 1929. Publisher, The Bozenkill Press.
Member Schoolmasters Association of New York, Poetry Society America, Catholic Poetry Society America, Songwriters Protective Association, The Writers, Bookfellows, American Literary Association (president 1924-1926), Poetry Society Alabama, Poetry Institute, of America (director), Poetry Society of Virginia, National Poetry Society of America (member academic), American Society of Composers.
Married Mildred Mary Cummer, October 31, 1914 (divorced 1926).; married second, Gloria Goddard, April. Children: Janet, John Thornton.