Jack Woodford was an American novelist and non-fiction writer, author of successful pulp novels and non-fiction of the 1930s and 1940s. He wrote unique books on writing and getting published. Most famously, Woodford authored Trial and Error which caused something of a scandal at the time of publication because of its no-holds-barred insights into the publishing industry.
Born Josiah Pitts Woolfolk, he also wrote under the name Jack Woolfolk. The pen name "Jack Woodford" was derived from the first name of a writer he admired and the county where his father was born . Other pen names include Gordon Sayre, Sappho Henderson Britt, and Howard Hogue Kennedy.
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“Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.”
Trial and Error http://books.google.com/books?id=5uiVyB4Hu2oC&pg=PT177&dq=%E2%80%9CCharacterization+is+an+accident+that+flows+out+of+action+and+dialogue.%E2%80%9D&hl=en&sa=X&ei=qhvHUaSpKfHa4APz9YCgAw&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA (1980)
