(1868-1955) US writer and optical physicist whose sf works were written with Arthur Train (whom see for details). His comic verses in How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers (coll 1907) – positing unlikely Evolutionary links based on supposed visual similarities – once had a cult following. [JC/DRL]

Robert Williams Wood

born Concord, Massachusetts: 2 May 1868

died Amityville, New York: 11 August 1955

works (selected)

• How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers: A Manual of Flornithology for Beginners (New York: Paul Elder, 1907) [poetry: coll: chap: hb/]
• The Man Who Rocked the Earth (Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1915) with Arthur Train [hb/]
• The Moon Maker (Hamburg, New York: Krueger, 1958) with Arthur Train [chap: hb/]

about the author

• William Seabrook. Dr Wood, Modern Wizard of the Laboratory (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1941) [nonfiction: hb/]

links

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• 08/11/2011
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