Thurston Clarke

Clarke was educated at Yale University, Columbia University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.^{[citation needed]}

Clarke is the author of thirteen books, the most recent of which is Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War.^[1]

Clarke is a frequent speaker on topics such as writing, modern history and travel and has appeared in documentaries.^[2]

Clarke is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship.^[3] He has also received the Lowell Thomas Award for Travel Literature.^[4]

He lives with his wife and three daughters in the Adirondacks, in upstate New York.^[3] His daughter, Sophie Clarke, was the winner of Survivor: South Pacific, the 23rd season of the popular CBS reality television show.

Thurston Clarke is the son-in-law of former British Ambassador Julian Bullard.^{[citation needed]}

Non-fiction

• Dirty Money: Swiss Banks, the Mafia, Money Laundering, and White Collar Crime (1975) (with John J. Tigue)^[5]
• The Last Caravan (1978)^[6]
• By Blood and Fire: The Attack on the King David Hotel (1981)^[7]
• Lost Hero: The Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg (1982) (with Frederick E. Werbell)^[8]
• Equator: A Journey (1988)^[9]
• Pearl Harbor Ghosts (1991)^[10]
• California Fault: Searching for the Spirit of a State Along the San Andreas (1996)^[11]
• Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands (2001)^[12] (reprinted as Islomania)
• Ask Not: The Inauguration of John F. Kennedy and The Speech That Changed America (2004)^[13]
• The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America (2008)^[14]
• JFK's Last Hundred Days: The Transformation of a Man and The Emergence of a Great President (2013)
• Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War (2019)

Fiction

• Thirteen O'Clock (1984)^[15]