1. Jack Woodford was an American novelist and non-fiction writer, author of successful pulp novels and non-fiction, including books on writing and getting published.
11 Facts About Jack Woodford
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The pen name "Jack Woodford" was derived from the first name of a writer he admired and the county where his father was born.
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Jack Woodford grew up in Chicago when the dominant form of transportation was horse-drawn carriage.
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Jack Woodford was raised in well-to-do circumstances by his grandmother Annette whom he called "Nettie".
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Jack Woodford's father was a doctor who started a private practice in Sioux City, Iowa, eventually moving it to Chicago.
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Jack Woodford later taught diagnosis at Rush Medical College, before dying at the age of forty-nine, likely from mercury poisoning.
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Jack Woodford witnessed the Eastland disaster where the steamer ship rolled over in the Chicago River and killed 845 people.
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Jack Woodford gave a firsthand account to the Chicago newspaper the Herald-Examiner and described the event in Chapter 21 of his autobiography.
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Jack Woodford wrote a piece that was published in Pound's early Exile magazine.
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Jack Woodford accompanied Winston Churchill when the former Prime Minister visited New York City.
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Jack Woodford was married on November 20,1916, to the 16-year-old Josephine Hutchings, and divorced 17 years later.