Scott Wood

Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1852–1944), also known as C.E.S. Wood, was an American author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, and attorney best known for his 1927 satirical bestseller Heavenly Discourse. He led an extraordinary life as a 'Soldier, poet, attorney, satirist, philosophical anarchist, reformer, and pacifist,' and was a close friend of luminaries like Mark Twain and Langston Hughes.