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Daniel Clark

A novelist and professor whose work explores African American life in the South with warmth, honesty, and emotional depth. His fiction often brings together questions of family, faith, identity, and belonging.

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A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication

A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication

by Daniel Clark

About the author

Born in Kansas City, Kansas, and raised in Arkansas, Daniel Black is an award-winning novelist, scholar, and teacher. He studied at Clark College, now Clark Atlanta University, and later earned both a master's degree and a doctorate in African-American studies from Temple University. He also studied at Oxford University as an Oxford Modern British Studies fellow.

Black has taught African American studies and English at Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College. Alongside his academic work, he founded the Ndugu and Nzinga Rites of Passage Nation, a mentoring society focused on character and leadership for African American youth.

His books include They Tell Me of a Home, The Sacred Place, Perfect Peace, Twelve Gates to the City, The Coming, and Listen to the Lambs. Perfect Peace brought him wide recognition, including being named Author of the Year by the Go On Girl! Book Club.