The Life and Work of Thomas A. Clark Born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1944, Thomas A. Clark grew up in a world that felt much larger than the industrial landscape of his youth. After leaving school at the age of 15, he spent eight years working in factories and warehouses. These years of manual labor provided a stark contrast to the creative impulses that began to surface in the early to mid-1960s, when he first started writing. It was…