![]() He later taught diagnosis at Rush Medical College, before dying at the age of forty-nine, likely from mercury poisoning. His father was a doctor who started a private practice in Sioux City, Iowa, eventually moving it to Chicago. Despite his general hatred of organized religion, Woodford joined the Freemasonry organization and remained a lifelong member. ![]() Nettie was a practicing member of Christian Science but was unable to bring Jack into the fold. He was raised in well-to-do circumstances by his grandmother Annette (of Welsh stock) whom he called "Nettie". Woodford grew up in Chicago when the dominant form of transportation was horse-drawn carriage. Other pen names include Gordon Sayre, Sappho Henderson Britt, and Howard Hogue Kennedy. The pen name "Jack Woodford" was derived from the first name of a writer he admired ( Jack Lait, a writer for Hearst Publications) and the county where his father was born ( Woodford County, Kentucky). ![]() Most famously, Woodford authored Trial and Error, which caused something of a scandal at the time of publication because of its no-holds-barred insights into the publishing industry.īorn Josiah Pitts Woolfolk, he also wrote under the name Jack Woolfolk. Jack Woodford (1894–1971) was an American novelist and non-fiction writer, author of successful pulp novels and non-fiction, including books on writing and getting published. ![]()
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