Michael Stephen "Mike" Clark was a popular newspaper

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in the 1970s and 1980s. Clark wrote for ''

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'', 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

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. 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

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