SoA announces death of committee member Eric Clark

The Society of Authors (SoA) has expressed its sadness over the death over committee member, writer and author Eric Clark.

David Donachie, chair of the management committee, said of his colleague: “Eric was a very acute wit and a well of experience, a man who'd been a very senior journalist. Talking to him, even at 80 years plus, you got the impression he was game for anything. It was only in being regaled with his entertaining anecdotes, over his accustomed large Jameson's Irish Whisky, one realised how many varied things he'd done in his life, too many to be listed here.

“His fellow members of the Management Committee will miss him, not just for his input, but for his gentle charm. For myself, I will be without someone who had become a friend.”

Clark was a member of the SoA for more than 30 years and the author of 10 books, including five thrillers and non-fiction titles about the global advertising industry and Chinese sweatshops, among other subjects. As a journalist he worked for the Daily Mail, the Guardian and the Observer.

Clark was also a Fellow of English PEN, and a member of the National Union of Journalists, the Authors Guild and the Mystery Writers Association and of the International Thriller Writers organisation.