Notable Woodworkers Since the 1600s

John English is a cabinetmaker and woodturner who has written widely for woodworking and how-to magazine and book publishers. He is perhaps best known for his regular contributions since 1993 to Woodshop News, a trade magazine. John was an assistant editor and then the editor of Woodworker’s Journal in Minneapolis in the late ‘90s, and has written hundreds of magazine articles for leading publications, including Today’s Woodworker, Popular Woodworking, American Woodworker, American How-To, Fine Woodworking, and the U.K. publication The Woodworker/Good Woodworking. Born in Ireland, he trained as a cabinetmaker in South Dakota and was the director of the Black Hills School of Woodworking from 2007 through 2013. In the studio, he worked extensively with artist and beader Anna Achziger to create fine furniture and beaded hollow vessels. He is the author of several books, including Harvest Your Own Lumber and Turning Wood with Carbide Tools. He contributed to The Complete Book of Woodworking (Landauer) and the Collins Complete Woodworker, which was published under the imprint of the Smithsonian Institution. Several of his projects appear in two series of how-to books by the editors of American How-To and Woodworker’s Journal, the latter in association with Fox Chapel Publishing. John also writes fiction and has received a Fellowship from the Arts Council in Fiction Writing (Wyoming, 2006).