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Jack Woodford

Jack Woodford was born Josiah Pitts Woolfolk, and raised in Chicago by his grandmother. His father was a physician who moved his practice from Sioux City, Iowa to Chicago and then went on to teach diagnosis at Rush Medical College.

Woodford wrote erotic pulp novels and nonfiction. His books were very successful, and in the 1930s he founded Jack Woodford Press. In addition to his popular books on how to write and get published, he was famous for writing Trial and Error, which caused a scandal with its frank description of the publishing industry.

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Born 1894
Died 1971

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  • Cover of: Trial And Error: A Key To The Secret Of Writing And Selling

    First published in 1934 — 6 editions
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    First published in 1950 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: How To Write For Money

    First published in 1944 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Evangelical cockroach

    First published in 1929 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: How To Write And Sell A Novel

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  • Cover of: The College Crowd

    First published in 1963 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Plotting: How To Have A Brain Child

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  • Cover of: Illicit

    First published in 1947 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Illegitimate

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  • Cover of: Strangers in love

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  • Cover of: Unconventional

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  • Cover of: Desire in New Orleans

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  • Cover of: Five fatal days

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  • Cover of: Gentleman from Parnassus

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  • Cover of: God's lap

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  • Cover of: Honey

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  • Cover of: How to make your friends and murder your enemies

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Born 1894
Died 1971

Subjects

Authorship, Fiction, Fiction, romance, general, Technique, collectionID:Sleazy_pulp, erotic fiction, Biography, Lesbians, Plots (Drama, novel, etc.), sleaze, American Authors, American Novelists, CHR 1952, Correspondence, Creative writing, Criminals, Fantasy fiction, Hypnotism, Man-woman relationships, Married people, Publishers and publishing, Pulp fiction, Pulp literature, Romance, Sexuality

Places

New Orleans, New York, New York (State), United States

People

Jack Woodford (1894-1971), Al Capone (1899-1947), Josiah Pitts Woolfolk (1894-)

Time

20th century

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Alternative names

  • Josiah Pitts Woolfolk
  • Jack Woolfolk
  • Gordon Sayre
  • Sappho Henderson Britt
  • Howard Hogue Kennedy

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January 17, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris Edited without comment.
January 17, 2024 Edited by Tom Morris Split AKAs
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
March 31, 2017 Edited by MARC Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import