C. Antoinette Wood | |
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Born | Cora Antoinette Binninger July 1, 1867 Brownville, New York, U.S. |
Died | May 29, 1942 Brookline, Massachusetts, U.S. | (aged 74)
Occupation | writer, poet, playwright |
Genre | short stories |
Years active | 1918-1942 |
Notable awards | Harvard 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.