Henry Cleveland Wood

Born in 1855 and associated with Harrodsburg, Kentucky, he built a varied literary life around journalism, bookselling, and writing. University of Kentucky archival material describes him as an author, bookseller, and poet who wrote short stories, poetry, serial novels, opera libretti, and papers on Kentucky history.

His best-known work is The Night Riders, a novel tied to the Kentucky tobacco uprising. Sources on his life also note that he developed strong literary interests through wide reading and began his career with an interest in journalism.

Wood appears to have remained closely connected to Kentucky throughout his life, especially Harrodsburg and Mercer County. He died in 1943.