Jerome Clark

For the US Congressman Jerome Bayard Clark, see J. Bayard Clark.
Jerome Clark
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Jerome Clark (born November 27, 1946[1]) is an American researcher and writer, specializing in unidentified flying objects and other paranormal subjects. He has appeared on ABC News Special Report, Unsolved Mysteries, Sightings and the A&E Network discussing UFOs and other oddities. Clark is also a country and folk music songwriter of note.[2]

Biography

Clark was born and raised in Canby, Minnesota; he attended South Dakota State University and Moorhead State University.[1] He has served as a writer, reporter, and editor for a number of magazines which cover UFOs and other paranormal subjects. He has been an editor of Fate magazine and International UFO Reporter, and a board member of the Center for UFO Studies.[3][4][5]

In the 1990s Clark authored The UFO Book, an abridged version of his multivolume The UFO Encyclopedia, which won the 1998 Benjamin Franklin Award in the Science/Environment category sponsored by the Independent Book Publishers Association. Library Journal stated in its review of The UFO Encyclopedia that it "is the most thorough treatment yet of this puzzling phenomenon...the [encyclopedia] should be considered by larger public and academic libraries."[6] Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries wrote that "the articles are factual and balanced, with neither a believer's nor a skeptic's viewpoint predominating", and that The UFO Encyclopedia is "recommended for public libraries and undergraduate collections."[7]

In its review of his 1999 book "Cryptozoology A to Z", Salon.com commented that Clark and co-author Loren Coleman "show a touchingly supportive nature" for a subject often criticized for lack of scientific rigor.[8]

Sunday Express combined its review of Clark's 2000 book, Extraordinary Encounters, An Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings with another similar book entitled UFOs and Popular Culture by James R. Lewis, calling both books "inexplicably entertaining" and commenting that they "manage throughout to maintain a healthy rationality and openmindedness, neither over-sceptical nor too ready to believe the claims of the UFOmongers."[9]

According to skeptical academic Paul Kurtz, "Clark attacks skeptics for being closed-minded and dogmatic, yet he is easily impressed by questionable evidence."[10]

Songwriting and music reviews

Clark has written songs which have been recorded or performed by musicians such as Emmylou Harris, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Tom T. Hall and has collaborated with Robin and Linda Williams.[2] He has also written a number of reviews of American folk music albums and CDs for Rambles magazine.[11]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 "Jerome Clark". Contemporary Authors Online. June 12, 2002. Retrieved on April 11, 2012.
  2. 1 2 "Jerome Clark". Allmusic.com. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Fate Magazine Takes the Fringe of Lunacy and Makes It Believable". Youngstown Daily Vindicator. August 19, 1982. Retrieved on April 11, 2012.
  4. ↑ Nickell, Joe. "Alien implants: The new 'hard evidence'". September/October 1998. Skeptical Inquirer. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  5. ↑ "The CUFOS Organization". The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS). Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  6. ↑ (https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/764389/Reviews)
  7. ↑ (https://www.buffalolib.org/vufind/Record/764389/Reviews)
  8. ↑ Burgess, Steve. "Loren Coleman, Loch Ness snowman of cryptozoology". Monday, Aug 16, 1999. Salon.com. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  9. ↑ Hartston, William (May 27, 2001). ""Extraordinary Encounters" Jerome Clark. "UFOs and Popular Culture" James R. Lewis. Both ABC-CLIO; Inexplicably entertaining". Sunday Express.
  10. ↑ Alan Poling; Henry Schlinger; Stephen Starin; Elbert Blakely (9 March 2013). Psychology: A Behavioral Overview. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 43–. ISBN 978-1-4615-7694-5. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)
  11. ↑ "Jerome Clark: Reviews by Jerome include:" from Rambles.com; URL accessed March 6, 2007

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