Larry Wood Bio Larry Wood is a retired public-school teacher who now concentrates full time on writing. He has sold articles and stories to numerous regional and national publications, including America's Civil War, Blue and Gray magazine, Kansas!, Missouri Life, The Ozarks Mountaineer, Reader's Digest, True West, and Wild West. Wood is a lifelong Missouri resident, and the conflict along the Missouri-Kansas border during the Civil War has long been of special interest to him. He has published several articles on the subject, including a brief biographyof Bill Anderson in the Summer 2000 issue of Gateway Heritage, a publication of the Missouri Historical Society. He is also the author of The Civil War on the Lower Kansas-Missouri Border, published by Hickory Press. Wood is a member of the Western Writers of America, and he has been an instructor for the Long Ridge Writers Group correspondence school of Long Ridge, Connecticut. He and his wife have one adult son, and they live in Joplin, Missouri.