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Roy Peter Clark (born 1948) is an American writer, editor, and teacher of writing who has become a writing coach to an international community of students, journalists, and writers of many sorts. He is also senior scholar and vice president of the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, a journalism think-tank in St. Petersburg, Florida, and is the founder of the National Writers Workshop. Clark has appeared on several radio and television talk shows, speaking about ethics in journalism and other writing issues.〔Clark, R. P. (March 3, 2011). Bio: Roy Peter Clark. ''Poynter Institute for Media Studies''. http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/76031/bio-roy-peter-clark/〕 == Life and career == Clark is a native of the Lower East Side of New York City, and was raised on Long Island. His mother was of half-Italian and half-Jewish ancestry (Clark was raised Catholic).〔http://jodiwebb.com/news/guest-post-and-giveaway-by-roy-peter-clark/〕〔http://www.poynter.org/uncategorized/89736/father-tim-russert-irish-catholicism-and-american-journalism/〕 Clark earned a degree in English (1970) from Providence College, Rhode Island, where he was editor of ''(The Alembic )'', a literary journal, and managing editor of the student-run newspaper, ''(The Cowl )''.〔http://www.providence.edu/Alumni/Notable+Alumni/Clark.htm〕 From there, Clark earned a Ph.D. in English, specializing in medieval literature, from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1974, Clark accepted a position teaching English at Auburn University at Montgomery, Alabama. Newspaper columns he wrote during that time attracted the attention of Eugene Patterson, editor of the ''St. Petersburg Times''. Patterson hired Clark in 1977 as a reporter〔Roy Peter Clark, Vice President and Senior Scholar. (2011). Poynter Online NewsU Career Center. Retrieved from http://legacy2.poynter.org/seminar/faculty.asp?id=1711〕 and to work with the newspaper’s staff as a writing coach. In 1979, Clark became a faculty member at, and has spent more than thirty years working in various positions with the Poynter Institute, the non-profit organization that now owns Times Publishing Company, which publishes the St. Petersburg Times.〔http://about.poynter.org/about-us/mission-history〕 Clark is listed as one of the Directors and Officers of (The Poynter Institute ) Andrea Pitzer, writing for the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, has called Clark “one of narrative journalism’s hardest working midwives.”〔Pitzer, A. (November 9, 2011). Roy Peter Clark on 'the power of the parts' for storytelling. ''Nieman Foundation''. http://niemanstoryboard.us/2010/11/09/roy-peter-clark-on-the-power-of-the-parts-for-storytelling/〕 The publication of his three most recent books, ''Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer'' (Little, Brown and Company, 2006) and ''The Glamour of Grammar: A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English'' (Little, Brown and Company, 2010), and ''Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces'' (Little, Brown and Company, 2011) brings Clark’s work into the mainstream audience of readers, writers, and lovers of language. Clark and his wife, Karen, have three daughters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Peter Clark」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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