Woodward was brought into the world in Geneva, Illinois, the child of Jane (n?e Upshur) and Alfred E. Woodward, a legal counselor who later became boss appointed authority of the eighteenth Judicial Circuit Court. He was brought up in adjacent Wheaton, Illinois, and taught at Wheaton Community High School (WCHS), a public secondary school in a similar town. His folks separated when he was twelve, and he and his sibling and sister were raised...