Charles Amadon Moody

{{short description|American journalist}}

Charles Amadon Moody (January 18, 1863 - November 15, 1910) was an American author and book reviewer. He co-edited Out West with Charles Fletcher Lummis for several years in the 1900s.

Moody was the son of Lucius W. Moody and Mary Blair Moody.{{cite book |chapter=Lucius W. Moody (Includes Wife Dr. Mary B. Moody) |title=Commemorative Biographical Record of New Haven County, Connecticut, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Early Settled Families | location=Chicago, IL |publisher=J.H. Beers & Co. | year=1902 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/cu31924032285490#page/n2413/mode/2up |access-date=September 5, 2018 | via=HathiTrust | pages=1542–1543 | oclc=2923764}} He grew up in Binghamton, New York and graduated from the University of Rochester in 1881, and worked as a newspaper editor. Due to poor health, he moved to Denver in 1888. He moved back to New York after suffering financial losses in the Panic of 1891, but later relocated to California. He was hired on by Out West in early 1900.[https://books.google.com/books?id=yN4rAAAAYAAJ&dq=Charles+Amadon+Moody&pg=PA68 Charles Amadon Moody's obituary], Out West, Vol. 1, Out West Company, 1910. Moody was also a participant in various good government movements in Los Angeles and San Francisco.{{cite news |date=16 November 1910 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/380151218/?terms=charles%2Bmoody | title=Editor Lies at Death's Door | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | page=16 | url-access=subscription | access-date=September 5, 2018 | via=newspapers.com}}Thompason, Mark. [https://archive.org/details/americancharacte00thom/page/199 American Character: The Curious History of Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Rediscovery of the Southwest], pp. 199, 256-57 (Arcade Publishing, 2001)({{ISBN|1-55970-550-7}})

His ashes are buried in Spring Forest Cemetery in Binghamton.(19 November 1910). [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85042462/1910-11-19/ed-1/seq-12/ Body of Charles A. Moody, Mining Man, Cremated], Los Angeles Herald, p. 12, col. 7.[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=moody&GSfn=charles&GSmn=amadon&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=84103032&df=all& Charles Amadon Moody], at findagrave.com, Retrieved 1 April 2013