children spouse article_title name occupation
joe clark harry clark tully clark karen clark michael stephen clark
 michael stephen clark newspaper columnist
michael stephen clark

michael stephen `` mike '' clark was a popular newspaper columnist in the 1970s and 1980s .
clark wrote for `` the commercial appeal '' , a memphis newspaper .
he was named scripps-howard 's reporter of the year and nominated for the pulitzer prize in 1981 for a series of articles about the intersection of conservative religion and the republican party .
he left the paper in 1985 to care for his infant daughter , tully , and , subsequently , his sons , joe and harry , while his wife , karen , worked as a physician .
