Wood married the former Louise Goss, April 30, 1956.
His most recent project, the 1789–1815 volume in the Oxford History of the United States series entitled Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815, was published in October 2009 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. He is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic.
In addition to his books (listed below), Wood has written numerous influential articles, notably "Rhetoric and Reality in the American Revolution" (1966), "Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Causality and Deceit in the Eighteenth century" (1982), and "Interests and Disinterestedness in the Making of the Constitution" (1987). He has taught at Harvard, the College of William and Mary, the University of Michigan, Brown, Pitt Professor at Cambridge University, and in 1982–83 and lectured for One Day University. program in history at Harvard, where he studied under Bernard Bailyn. at Harvard University, he entered the Ph.D. Air Force in Japan, during which time he earned an A.M. He graduated summa cum laude from Tufts University in 1955. Gordon Wood was born in Concord, Massachusetts, and grew up in Worcester and Waltham. In 2010, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal. His book The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787 won a 1970 Bancroft Prize. Way University Professor and Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution.