C. Antoinette Wood

C. Antoinette Wood
BornCora Antoinette Binninger
(1867-07-01)July 1, 1867
Brownville, New York, U.S.
DiedMay 29, 1942(1942-05-29) (aged 74)
Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupationwriter, poet, playwright
Genreshort stories
Years active1918-1942
Notable awardsHarvard Workshop 47 for screenplay "Buying Culture"
1921
Spouse
George Edmond Wood
(m. 1893)

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C. Antoinette Wood (Jul 1867 – 29 May 1942), was an early 20th century American woman author and playwright. She was born in Brownville, New York, to Catherine Vogt and Henry Binninger, a German immigrant to New York. She was a professional writer, lecturer, and dramatist from 1918 onward. Both a poet and a painter, she also saw 10 of her plays produced and worked with George Pierce Baker's Harvard Workshop 47 at Boston, Massachusetts. Afterwards, she stayed and married husband, George E. Wood, whom she lived with in Brookline, Massachusetts until her death in 1942.