Laura Newbold Wood was an American author who published under the name L. N. Wood. In the 1930s, she worked for the Works Progress Administration. In the 1940s, she published three biographies for young adults. In 1973, she published a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, the famous landscape architect. She also wrote the first biography about Raymond L. Ditmars, the curator of reptiles at the New York Zoological Park.