Clarke is also an editor, broadcaster, teacher, lecturer and gadfly, campaigning tirelessly for wider recognition of minority artists and challenging (...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Clarke is also an editor, broadcaster, teacher, lecturer and gadfly, campaigning tirelessly for wider recognition of minority artists and challenging public opinion in everything from newspaper columns to short stories.j He is the author of 11 novels and short-story collections. Clarke was born in Barbados in 1934 and educated there and at the U of T's Trinity College. He has held visiting professorships and writer-in-residence seats at universities all over North America, including Concordia, University of Western Ontario and Yale. He was a founding member of the Writers' Union of Canada.