Clarke Thomas
Clarke M. Thomas was an American journalist.
He was born in Kansas, raised by Christian missionary parents in Sierra Leone, and graduated with a degree in journalism from University of Kansas. After a tour of duty in the US Army, he was as a reporter with The Hutchinson News, the Lincoln Journal, the Wichita Eagle, and the Daily Oklahoman. He began a long and influential career at Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1971. He served a term as president of the National Conference of Editorial Writers.
Books
- They Came to Pittsburgh,.
- Witness to the Fifties: The Pittsburgh Photographic Library, 1950-1953, with Constance B. Schulz and Steven W. Plattner.
- Front-Page Pittsburgh: Two Hundred Years of the Post-Gazette,.
- A Patrician of Ideas: A Biography of A.W. Schmidt,.
- This Far by Faith: The Community of Reconciliation Church History,.