Ward Moore (August 10, 1903 – January 28, 1978)

American author Joseph Ward Moore. Moore grew up in New York City, and later moved to Chicago, and then to California.


Moore began publishing with the novel, Breathe the Air Again (1942), about the onset of the Great Depression. The story is told from multiple viewpoints, and Ward Moore himself appears briefly as a character in the novel. His most famous work is the alternate history novel Bring the Jubilee (1953). This novel, narrated by Hodge Backmaker, tells of a world in which the South won the American Civil War, leaving the North in ruins.