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Wood, Clement1888-1950Born at Tuscaloosa, Ala., Sept. 1, 1888, but reared in Birmingham, Ala., where he attended Taylor’s Academy and Birmingham High School. Received his degree of A.B. from the University of Alabama in 1909, and of LL.B. from Yale University in 1911. He returned to his home city of Birmingham and practiced law for several years, becoming assistant city attorney of Birmingham in 1912, and police magistrate of the Central District of Birmingham, 1912-13. The following year he came to New York for advanced work in sociology and literature and became a contributor of poems, essays, and short stories to various magazines. In 1917 he was awarded the first prize of $250 by the Newark Committee of One Hundred, as part of their Anniversary Celebration, for his poem, “The Smithy of God”, and in 1919 he was also awarded one of the three Lyric Society Prizes, of $500 each, for his poem, “Jehovah”. In 1914 Mr. Wood married Mildred M. Cummer, of Buffalo, N.Y., who is also a writer. In poetry he is the author of the following books: “Glad of Earth”, 1917; “The Earth Turns South”, 1919; and “Jehovah”, 1920. He has also written a novel called “Mountain”, published in 1920.

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