Author Ed Wood

Essays

Published essays

“Recovering from the Shame of Combat”. Friends Journal, September 2025.

“La Llorona”. Parabola, August 2023.

“Words: The Saving Grace”. Western Friend, November/December 2021.

“On Quakers and Guns”. Western Friend, February 2019.

“Delight of Silent Meeting”. Western Friend, 2019.

The Credits. Flaunt, Issue 149 The OH LA LA LAND ISSUE, Fall 2016, page 452.

Memory and Myth: What Was/World War II Really Like? War Literature and the Arts, Vol. 23, 2011.

Revisiting My Memoir: On Being Wounded. War Literature and the Arts, Vol. 11,1999, page 103. (Also published in Standing Down: From Warrior to Civilian. Great Books Foundation, 2013, page. 227.)

Some Wounds of the Male, The Loss of the Goddess/The Rise of the Woman Warrior. Care Networks, Vol. 5, Issue 3, Fall 1992.

Patriots of Peace, A Roll Call of Honor. Friends Journal, August 1/15, 1986, page 12.

References to Ed and his work

Paying With Their Bodies. John M. Kinder, University of Chicago Press, 2015, page. 261.

Inferno, The World at War. Max Hastings. Alfred A, Knoph, New York, 2011, page 58.

Ed Wood: Wounds, War and Friendship. Commentary by Glenn Leinbach, War Literature and the Arts, Vol. 16, 2004, page 255.

The Boys’ Crusade. Paul Fussell, Modern Library, New York, 2003.

On Judging World War Two: The Greatest Generation? War Literature and the Arts, Vol. 12, 2000, page 213.

Das Wichtigste Ist Das Leben—Der Krieg Zerstort Alles. Von Hans-Hermann Klare, “An interview with Ed Wood”, Stern Magazine, Heft Nr. 43, October, 1998, page 113.

In addition

Regular columnist in the Cape Cod Times (70s), Guest Editorials in the Denver Post (1990s and 2000s), an excerpt of On Being Wounded in the Fulcrum Reader.