What is some biographical information on Beatrice Wood? How does her work reflect life and culture?

Biographical information on the pioneering 20th century American ceramicist Beatrice Wood, who lived to be 105, is available from numerous sources, including her autobiography, I Shock Myself. It is also available in the entry offered by the Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts at the Besant School, where she formerly taught.
Born in 1893 and raised in an affluent California family, Wood studied art in Paris until World War I forced her to return to the United States. While studying theater in New York, she became involved with the French Dada artist Marcel Duchamp. Along with co-founding the Dada magazine The Blind Man, she wrote and illustrated entries in other Dada publications. In the 1920s, relocating to Los Angeles, she began seriously to study Eastern philosophies with Jiddu Krishnamurti. At age 40, she began to dedicate her artistic pursuits to ceramics. She became an expert and innovator in glazes, especially lusterware. Wood continued to produce both functional pieces, such as dinnerware, that was marketed in department stores, along with her fine-art pieces. She lived the last half of her life in Ojai, California. One highlight of her middle years was an intensive lecture tour of India, sponsored by the US State Department. The trip also influenced her to adopt the sari as her regular form of dress.
Wood’s influence includes her work and her life. She is one of the most well-known women ceramicists of her generation. Her embrace of Eastern philosophies also resonates with artistic and spiritual inquiries that continue today. Wood also supposedly inspired the character of Rose in the film Titanic.
https://books.google.com/books/about/I_Shock_Myself.html?id=Lwg4AQAAIAAJ

https://www.beatricewood.com/biography.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Beatrice-Wood