Douglas H. Woodworth

Douglas H. Woodworth is a little-documented author whose confirmed surviving work is Ducky entertains. Project Gutenberg lists that title under Woodworth’s name, and its bibliographic record gives the original publication as New York, by The Frank A. Munsey Company, in 1928.

Because reliable biographical sources are scarce, not much else can be said with confidence about Woodworth’s life or career. For readers, that means the book itself does most of the introduction: a piece of late-1920s fiction that comes to us with more textual history than personal history.

That relative obscurity can be part of the appeal. Woodworth belongs to the large group of early twentieth-century magazine-era writers whose stories outlived the public record, leaving behind a name, a publication trail, and a work ready to be rediscovered.