Charles Erskine Scott Wood
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Charles Erskine Scott Wood (b. Erie, Pennsylvania February 20, 1852; d. Los Gatos, California January 22, 1944) is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, Heavenly Discourse.
He served as an infantry officer and fought in the Nez Perce war in 1877. Following his service he became a prominent attorney in Portland, Oregon. He began to write, became a frequent contributor to Pacific Monthly, and a leader of Portland's literary community.
From 1925 until his death in 1944 he lived with his second wife, Sara Bard Field, in Los Gatos, California in a house named "The Cats." During his lifetime, he numbered among his friends Chief Joseph, Mark Twain, Emma Goldman, Ansel Adams, Robinson Jeffers, Clarence Darrow, Childe Hassam, Margaret Sanger, and John Steinbeck.