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What’s in a name?

Hot Mahogany is Wood’s 10th Stone Barrington novel.  When asked on his Web site where he gest his characters’ names, the author replied, “When I wrote Chiefs I knew I would need a lot of names, so I wrote down the name of all the merchants on Main...

Stuart Woods – An Introduction

Stuart Woods was born in the small southern town of Manchester, Georgia and attended the local public schools, then graduated from the University of Georgia, with a BA in sociology.   In the Fall of 1979 he had contracted to publish a novel, on the basis of two...