# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-van-tilburg-clark
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:35:23.415Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-van-tilburg-clark"
name: "Walter Van Tilburg Clark"
slug: "walter-van-tilburg-clark"
description: "Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and educator. He ranks as one of Nevada's most distinguished literary figures of the 20th century, and was the first inductee into the 'Nevada Writers Hall of Fame' in 1988, together with Robert Laxalt, Clark's mentee and Nevada's other heralded twentieth century author. Two of Clark's novels, The Ox-Bow Incident and The Track of the Cat, were made into films. As a writer, Clark taught himself to use the familiar materials of the western saga to explore the human psyche and to raise deep philosophical issues."
tagline: "American novelist, short story writer, educator (1909–1971)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Walter_Van_Tilburg_Clark.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1909-08-03"
deathDate: "1971-11-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.34
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.284702666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Walter Van Tilburg Clark"
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  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AC_%D9%83%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83"
    title: "والتير ڤان تيلبورج كلارك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Van_Tilburg_Clark"
    title: "Walter Van Tilburg Clark"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Van_Tilburg_Clark"
    title: "Walter Van Tilburg Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Van_Tilburg_Clark"
    title: "Walter Van Tilburg Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Van_Tilburg_Clark"
    title: "Walter Van Tilburg Clark"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2546934"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump