Katherine Clark

Katherine Clark is the co-author of the oral biographies Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife's Story, with Onnie Lee Logan, and Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet (a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle award), with Eugene Walter. Her debut novel, The Headmaster's Darlings, won the 2015 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, part of her Mountain Brook series, along with All the Governor's Men, The Harvard Bride, and The Ex-Suicide. All four novels were published by the University of South Carolina Press's Story River Books imprint, whose founding editor was Pat Conroy. Clark holds an A.B. degree in English from Harvard and a Ph.D. in English from Emory.