Tom Foran Clark was born in Burbank and raised in Torrance, California. He received a Bachelor’s degree from Utah State University in Logan, Utah and a Master’s degree from Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of The Significance of Being Frank, a biography of the 19th century Concord, Massachusetts teacher, journalist, and abolitionist Franklin Benjamin Sanborn; Freewheeling, an adventure fiction series in four parts: (I) Riding in Italy, (II) Derailed in North Africa, (III) Rambling in Spain, and (IV) Writing on Crete; and a collection of short stories, The House of Great Spirit. Clark has worked, variously over the years, in advertising as a graphic artist and copy editor, a quality assurance engineer for assorted eBooks and marketing firms and, occasionally, off and on, a public library director.