![]() ![]() ![]() After he was discharged, he went to journalism school at Northwestern University but dropped out after one of his professors deemed his writing “undisciplined and of no commercial value.” What that professor didn’t know was that Howard had already sold two stories by then… ![]() Howard joined the Marines when he was 17 and was one of only eight survivors of a platoon that fought in the bloody Punchbowl battle during the Korean War. He became an amateur boxer and, within a few years, a juvenile delinquent who was sent to reform school. One of the most decorated mystery writers in America, Clark Howard was born in Tennessee and grew up as a ward of the state, bouncing from foster home to foster home in Chicago’s rough-and-tumble Lower West Side. ![]()
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