Robert Clark Young (born 1960) is an American author of novels, essays, short stories and journalism. Recurring themes in Young's fiction include the relation between alcoholism, the abuse of power, and institutional dysfunction in American life, while his nonfiction has recently focused on eldercare topics. Young has been involved in several high-profile issues through the fiction and journalistic articles he has written.
Read more about Robert Clark Young: Young's Life, Eldercare, Controversy Over One of The Guys, The Death of The Death of The Novel, In Film, The Neilson/Kingsolver and Wind Done Gone Controversies, Article About Brad Vice, Young's Other Writings, Selected Bibliography
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“You can’t have operations without screams. Pain and the knife—they’re inseparable.”
—Jean Scott Rogers. Robert Day. Mr. Blount (Frank Pettingell)
“In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man’s field. I wanted to prove I could do it. Then I found that when I did as well as the men in the field I got more credit for my work because I am a woman, which seems unfair.”
—Eugenie Clark (b. 1922)
“the young men who watch us from the curbs:
They hold the glaze of wonder in their stare
Our crooked backs, hands fetid as old herbs,
The tallow eyes, wax face, the foreign hair!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)