Home › Authors › Charles Wood Charles Wood United States · b. 1851 – d. 1944 · 1 book Biography Charles Erskine Scott Wood, also known as C. E. S. Wood, was an American author, civil liberties advocate, artist, soldier, and attorney. He is best known as the author of the 1927 satirical bestseller, Heavenly Discourse. Books by Charles Wood The living Christ and some problems of to-day 1919