John C. Sherwood

John C. Sherwood is a professional writer/journalist, magician and mentalist born in Michigan in 1950. He wrote monthly columns -- "Just for Us Young Guys" and "Lost in the Forest" -- for The New Tops from 1966 through 1992, and graduated from the Chavez school in 1981.

Sherwood's primary mentors in the field of magic were Neil Foster, primarily as a teacher and editor, and collector/historian Robert Lund, who moved to Sherwood's hometown of Marshall, Michigan, in the early 1970s to establish his American Museum of Magic.

As a teenager in the early 1960s, Sherwood wrote a column, "Miscellaneous," for Top Hat, published by Magical Youths International, and in the 1970s wrote two books published by Micky Hades, "The Conjurer's Calculator" and "The Circuited Sorcerer."

Noted for his hundreds of mentalism performances in the character of Sherlock Holmes from 1987 to the present, Sherwood has been best known to magicians as a writer of brief biographies of fellow performers, first for The New Tops and later for Vibrations, the publication of the Psychic Entertainers Association.

Sherwood, who has resided in Pennsylvania since 1999, is a member of the Society of American Magicians, the International Brotherhood of Magicians (Order of Merlin) and the Psychic Entertainers Association.

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