1. Joseph Ward Moore was an American science fiction writer.
13 Facts About Ward Moore
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The story is told from multiple viewpoints, and Ward Moore himself appears briefly as a character in the novel.
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Ward Moore is known for the two short stories "Lot" and "Lot's Daughter", which are postapocalyptic tales with parallels to the Bible.
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Ward Moore was born in Madison, New Jersey, a western suburb of New York City.
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Ward Moore's parents were Jewish and had married in 1902, the previous year.
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Ward Moore's grandfather Joseph Solomon Moore had been a successful German-born commission merchant and the statistician of the New York custom house, the author of several books on the tariff question and a friend of Carl Schurz.
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Ward Moore's parents divorced and remarried around this time, and his father died in 1916.
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Ward Moore claimed to have spent several years tramping around the United States as a hobo during the early 1920s.
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In 1929, Ward Moore relocated to California, where he was to live for the rest of his life.
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Ward Moore's occupation is listed as writer-novelist in the magazine publishing industry.
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On May 3,1943, in Los Angeles Ward Moore was married to his second wife, Lorna Lenzi.
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Ward Moore was a friend of the magazine's California-based editors, Anthony Boucher and J Francis McComas, and soon became a popular favorite with the magazine's readers.
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Ward Moore published little during the 1960s, but published several stories in the mid-1970s.