Tom Clark (1941-2018) was born in Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan, Cambridge University and the University of Essex. He worked variously as an editor ( The Paris Review ), critic ( Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, New York Times ) and biographer (lives of Damon Runyon, Jack Kerouac, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, Edward Dorn), wrote novels ( Who is Sylvia?, The Exile of Céline, The Spell ) and essays ( The Poetry Beat, Problems of Thought: Paradoxical Essays ). His many collections of poetry included Stones, Air, At Malibu, John's Heart, When Things Get Tough on Easy Street, Paradise Resisted, Disordered Ideas, Fractured Karma, Sleepwalker's Fate, Junkets on a Sad Planet: Scenes from the Life of John Keats, Like Real People, Empire of Skin, Light and Shade and The New World. Tom Clark was killed in a road accident in August 2018. The photo showed the author with his wife, Angelica Heinegg.