Robert Clark (born April 9, 1952^[1]) is an American novelist and writer of nonfiction. He has received the Edgar,^[2] James Beard and Julia Child awards, the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, and the Washington State Book Award as well as being a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the IMPAC Dublin Award. He has also been a Guggenheim Fellow and his books have been TLS and New York Times Notable Books of the Year. A native of St. Paul, Minnesota, he lives in New York City.

Works

Fiction

• In the Deep Midwinter (1998)
• Mr. White's Confession (1999)
• Love Among the Ruins (2002)
• Lives of the Artists (2005)

Nonfiction

• James Beard: A Biography (1993)
• River of the West: A Chronicle of the Columbia (1997)
• The Solace of Food: A Life of James Beard (1998)
• My Grandfather's House: A Genealogy of Doubt and Faith (2000)
• Dark Water: Flood and Redemption in the City of Masterpieces (2008)
• My Victorians: Lost in the Nineteenth Century (2019)