NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 26 number 2 - Winter 2006

Friends of the Library News--Martin Clark Event

By Anne Schnatter, Friends of the Library

The Friends of the Library will host a special reading by Virginia Circuit Court Judge Martin Clark, author of Plain Heathen Mischief. The event will be held on January 11, 2006, at 4:00 P.M., in the Assembly Room, East Wing, D. H. Hill Library.

The San Francisco Chronicle described Clark’s book as, “outlandishly believable. . . . The Gospel may hit a mainstream high with Plain Heathen Mischief.” In April 2004 the New York Times Magazine regarded Clark’s first book, The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living, as “arguably the funniest legal thriller ever written—a book that made Clark seem like not only the thinking man’s John Grisham but, maybe better, the drinking man’s. . . .”

Clark, who lives in Stuart, Virginia, plans to give the honorarium for his talk to his church’s daycare, which serves low-income families. In addition, the proceeds from his writings benefit the same cause.