Stuart Woods

Stuart Woods is the son of Dorothy Callaway Lee Woods, a church organist, and Stuart Franklin Lee, an armed robber, ex-convict and filling station operator who later became a Los Angeles restaurateur and bookmaker. He was born Stuart Chevalier Lee in Manchester, Georgia (His name was later changed to that of his stepfather, Angier David Woods, a traveling salesman in ladies lingerie) and eked out a BA at the University of Georgia. Mr. Woods was an advertising writer in New York, London and Dublin, then established a career as a writer. He has written a memoir, a travel book and thirty-nine novels and has become a fixture on the New York Times Best-Seller List. He appears to have directed any inherited criminal tendencies into his books. He is published by George Putnam’s Sons and represented by Janklow & Nesbit.
Mr. Woods is a yachtsman and aviator and has lived an adventurous life. He sailed in the catastrophic Fastnet Race of 1979,when 15 lives were lost, and has twice sailed across the Atlantic, once alone. He has also twice flown a light aircraft across the Atlantic, once non-stop.