CLARK, Glenn 1882-1956

PERSONAL:

Born March 13, 1882, in Des Moines, IA; died August 16, 1956, in Minneapolis, MN; son of James S. and Fannie (Page) Clark; married Louise Miles, 1907. Education: Grinnell College, graduated, 1905. Religion: Presbyterian.

CAREER:

High school principal in Des Moines, IA, 1905-08; William and Vashti College, Aledo, IL, teacher, 1908-12; Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, teacher, 1912-44. Camp Far Out (prayer movement), founder, 1930; Macalester Park Publishing Co., founder.

WRITINGS:

The Manual of the Short-Story Art, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1922.

The Soul's Sincere Desire, Atlantic Monthly Press (Boston, MA), 1925, Silver Anniversary edition, Little, Brown and Co. (Boston, MA), 1950.

Fishers of Men, Little, Brown and Co. (Boston, MA), 1928.

The Thought Farthest Out, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1930.

Water of Life, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1931.

Personality in Essay Writing, R. Long and R. R. Smith (New York, NY), 1932.

The Lord's Prayer, and Other Talks on Prayer: From the Camp Farthest Out, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1932.

(Editor) Toyohiko Kagawa, A Grain of Wheat (fiction), translated by Marion R. Draper, Harper and Brothers (New York, NY), 1936.

I Will Lift up Mine Eyes, Harper and Brothers (New York, NY), 1937.

The Man Who Talks with the Flowers: The Intimate Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1939.

How to Find Health through Prayer, Harper and Brothers (New York, NY), 1940.

The World's Greatest Debate, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1940.

(With Glenn Harding and Starr Daily, a pseudonym) The Third Front through the Paths of Faith, Hope, and Love, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1944.

The Way, the Truth, and the Life, Harper and Brothers (New York, NY), 1946.

The Man Who Walked in His Steps, [St. Paul, MN], 1946.

A Man's Reach: The Autobiography of Glenn Clark, Harper and Brothers (New York, NY), 1949.

(Editor) Jerry Gray, The Third Strike, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press (New York, NY), 1949.

What Would Jesus Do? Wherein a New Generation Undertakes to Walk in His Steps, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1950.

God's Reach, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1951.

"Come, Follow Me," Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1952.

Be Thou Made Whole, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1953.

Windows of Heaven, photographs by Lucien Aigner, Harper (New York, NY), 1954.

On Wings of Prayer, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1955.

God's Voice in the Folklore: Nonsense Rhymes and Great Legends, Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1956.

Also author of "Self-Cultivation in Extemporaneous Speaking," Minnesota Alpha Chapter, Pi Kappa Delta, Macalester College (St. Paul, MN), 1921; "Power of the Spirit on the Athletic Field," privately printed (St. Paul, MN), 1929; and "The Land We Vision," Macalester Park Publishing (St. Paul, MN), 1934. Contributor to periodicals, including Atlantic. Cofounder, Clear Horizons, 1940; also affiliated with Fellowship Messenger and Manual of Prayer.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Clark, Glenn, A Man's Reach: The Autobiography of Glenn Clark, Harper and Brothers (New York, NY), 1949.

Clark, Miles, Glenn Clark: His Life and Writings, Abingdon Press (Nashville, TN), 1975.

Religious Leaders of America, 2nd edition, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1999.*