author
Andrew Y. Wood
Best known as the co-author of Fascinating San Francisco, this early 20th-century writer helped capture the city’s character for readers and visitors alike. Very little biographical information is readily documented, which gives the surviving work an added sense of historical curiosity.
1 Audiobook
Fascinating San Francisco
by Fred Brandt, Andrew Y. Wood
About the author
Andrew Y. Wood is credited as the co-author, with Fred Brandt, of Fascinating San Francisco, a guidebook first published in 1924. The book presents a lively portrait of San Francisco’s history, landmarks, and atmosphere, aiming to introduce readers to the city’s personality as well as its sights.
Reliable biographical details about Wood himself are scarce in the sources available here. Because of that, he is best understood through the work he left behind: a compact piece of city writing from the 1920s that now survives through public-domain archives and later reprints.
For modern readers, Wood’s name is tied to a snapshot of San Francisco in an earlier era. His contribution endures less through a well-documented personal story than through a book that preserves how the city was described, celebrated, and imagined in its time.