Stuart Woods




Stuart Woods

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Manchester, Georgia, The United States

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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.

After college, he spent a year in Atlanta and two months in basic training for what he calls "the draft-dodger program" of the Air National Guard. Then, in the autumn of 1960, he moved to New York, in search of a writing job. The magazines and newspapers weren't hiring, so he got a job in a training program at an advertising agency, earning seventy dollars a week. "It is a measure of my value to the company," he says, "that my secretary was earning eighty dollars a week." He spent the whole of the nineteen-sixties in New...more




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avg rating: 3.65 | 16,841 ratings | 1,259 reviews | 79 distinct works | 40 fans
Orchid Beach Orchid Beach (Holly Barker, #1)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.67 — 709 ratings — published 1998
11 editions
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L.A. Dead L.A. Dead (Stone Barrington, #6)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.62 — 667 ratings — published 2000
7 editions
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Dark Harbor Dark Harbor (Stone Barrington, #12)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.64 — 646 ratings — published 2006
5 editions
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Orchid Blues Orchid Blues (Holly Barker, #2)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.73 — 593 ratings — published 2001
6 editions
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Dirty Work Dirty Work (Stone Barrington, #9)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.73 — 585 ratings — published 2003
5 editions
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Blood Orchid Blood Orchid (Holly Barker, #3)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.72 — 565 ratings — published 2002
7 editions
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New York Dead New York Dead (Stone Barrington, #1)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.75 — 540 ratings — published 1991
16 editions
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Swimming To Catalina Swimming To Catalina (Stone Barrington, #4)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.70 — 548 ratings — published 1998
9 editions
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Two Dollar Bill Two Dollar Bill (Stone Barrington, #11)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.60 — 562 ratings — published 2005
5 editions
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Dead In The Water Dead In The Water (Stone Barrington, #3)
by Stuart Woods
avg rating 3.65 — 553 ratings — published 1997
10 editions
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