KATHERINE CLARK holds an A.B. degree in English from Harvard and a Ph.D. in English from Emory. She is the coauthor 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 with Eugene Walter (a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award). A former student of Martin Hames, the inspiration for the character of Norman Laney, Clark has written three additional Mountain Brook novels featuring Laney and his students—All the Governor’s Men, The Harvard Bride, and The Ex-suicide—all forthcoming from the University of South Carolina Press imprint Story River Books. Clark is currently collaborating with Pat Conroy on his oral biography, also forthcoming from the University of South Carolina Press. She lives on the Gulf Coast.