Woodford Memorial Editions

The Autobiography of Jack Woodford

First paperback appearance of that fabulous Autobiography of an American
Sex Novelist. Inaccessible and only haphazardly distributed when it was
published over 26 years ago, here is the story of the man who taught many
of this nation's top writers in how to do it. And the top writers openly
acknowledge the inspiration and encouragement of Jack Woodford, the
American Rabelais.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN: "It pleases me enormously to see dear old Jack Woodford (may
his bones rest in peace) given his due. I read 'Trial and Error' in 1939, started writing and did exactly what he said to do...and it works and I've sold it all. Hooray for Woodford."

RAY BRADBURY: "Jack Woodford's 'Trial and Error' was the first book on writing I ever read, at the age of fifteen. He said all the right things and said them clearly. I stayed afloat and got my work done because of him."

A.E. VAN VOGT: "I used to read Jack Woodford avidly..."

DR. JERRY POURNELLE: "I strongly suspect that I would not have attempted to write for money if I had not read Jack Woodford's books..."

GEORGE WARREN: "...there never was a writer-on-writing even remotely like Jack Woodford, and, for the commercial writer, like myself, he is irreplaceable..."

PETER DANIELSON: "...'Trial and Error' is the best book on writing ever written in any
century or any language...because of reading Jack Woodford I estimate my career skipped
ten years of failure... The amazing thing about Woodford is that 90% of everything he had to say to the beginning writer remains totally valid 40 years after all Jack Woodford's own markets had died. No writer's book shelf is complete without the collected non-fiction works of Jack Woodford..."

RICHARD S. PRATHER: "...Nothing will diminish the towering stature of Jack Woodford's work, particularly that Magnum Opus: 'Trial and Error'...Jack Woodford is great."

MICHAEL AVALLONE: "...Woodford was the first to say in print a lot of things that needed
to be said about those unsung rascals, the publishers...Woodford was to writing what Winchell was to Journalism--a Truth-Teller, Sensation-Maker, and Icon Shatterer..."

WILLIAM WALL: "Woodford was one hell of a guy. A guy like Jack Woodford cannot be put down... if you have not read his books on writing you probably are not a writer."

NEIL ELLIOTT: "...When you knew Jack Woodford you knew what Hitler had going for him--a personality so strong that it carried everything before it...I've known many of the
great and famous of the world...they all seemed puny compared to Jack Woodford..."

HARMON BELLAMY: "... his most important contribution to the world of literature was 'Trial and Error: perhaps the most famous of all books on writing..."

SIDNEY ALLINSON: "...Jack Woodford was a genius as a teacher of writing...his books should be required reading in so-called 'creative writing' courses in college..."

CLEMENT WOOD: "...When Jack Woodford speaks from Sinai, publishers, agents, and other such-like public enemies run for a cyclone cellar. Every word he writes on writing is worth reading."

UPTON SINCLAIR: "...Woodford knows the writing game and what he says about it is very much to the point..."

LOUIS BROMFIELD: "... Woodford is interesting and full of common sense...of value to any person planning to make a living by writing."

WRITER'S DIGEST: "...Woodford knows the writing business, if ever a man knew it. He speaks as a battle-scarred veteran...a tremendous amount of stored-up knowledge...genuine aid from the front-line trenches..."

DONALD HENDERSON CLARKE: "...If you want to write for money, nobody can tell you how better than Jack Woodford..."

Cat. No.: AB
Price: $13.95

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