Eric Fisher Wood

Born in New York City, Eric Fisher Wood was an American engineer, architect, military officer, and author whose life moved between public service and writing. He studied at Yale, did further work at Columbia, and also studied architecture in Paris.

When World War I began, he was in France and worked with the American Embassy before serving more directly in the war effort. He kept a journal of those months and published it as The Note-book of an Attaché: Seven Months in the War Zone, a firsthand account that helped establish him as a writer. He later became one of the founders of the American Legion and remained closely connected to military and veterans' affairs.

After the war, Wood built a major career in architecture in Pittsburgh while continuing his military service, eventually retiring as a brigadier general after World War II. His work and papers show a life shaped by war, civic involvement, design, and public leadership, which gives his writing a strong sense of experience lived rather than imagined.