Clark Gabriel Field
- born in Owensboro, Kentucky, on a small farm;
- middle child of five living children;
- studied for Catholic priesthood for twelve years:
- High School and two years college at St. Mary College, St. Mary, KY
- final college and four years of Theology
at St. Mary Seminary, Baltimore, MD;
- served as parish priest for twenty years in western Kentucky and Evansville, IN
- received his Masters in Counseling from Western Kentucky
University;
- candidate for U. S. Congress in Democratic primary, Indiana,
Eighth District – lost;
- married Alice Serr from Chicago, who together parent one child,
Phillip Kevin;
- founded the Mediation Center of Evansville in 1989 and remains
president;
- traveled to Russia in 1995 with a group of U. S. mediators and
gave
a lecture in Moscow to Russian educators, entitled: “Peer
Mediation and Cultural Diversity Training, Essential Components
for a Total Quality Management School;”
- is presently completing a mediation text for a university course
entitled: Mediation for Everyday;
- although Clark is a published poet and a newspaper columnist for
many
years, The Celibate, Robert of Paduke is his first novel;
- as Clark enjoys a historical context to novels, he has lived in
Paducah,
KY, has retreated at Gethsemani, KY, and has visited Rome – the
three settings for this fictional story, which has other historical
contexts.
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