Laura Newbold Wood

Laura Newbold Wood Roper (March 15, 1911 – December 5, 2003) was an American author who also published under the name L. N. Wood. In the 1930s she worked for the

Wood was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated.from Vassar College with an A.B. in 1932. In 1940 she married W. Crosby Roper, Jr. (died 1982).^{[citation needed]}

She published a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted in 1973.

• Walter Reed:Doctor in Uniform (1943), J. Messner, New York illustrated by Douglas Duer
• Raymond L. Ditmars: His Exciting Career with Reptiles, Animals, and Insects 1944
• Louis Pasteur 1948
• FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted (1973) Johns Hopkins University Press

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