Tom Clark (March 1, 1941 – August 18, 2018, aged 77) was an American poet, editor and biographer.
[1] Clark was born on the Near West Side of Chicago, and attended Fenwick High School in Oak Park.
He then won a Fulbright Scholarship to undertake graduate study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in England (1963-5), before spending further time pursuing doctoral research (on the advice of Donald Davie) at the newly-established University of Essex.
[5][failed verification] Residing in California for the remainder of his life, Clark was an active writer, producing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
On the evening of Friday, August 17, 2018, Clark was walking across a street in Berkeley, California, and was hit by a car at about 8:40 p.m.