James Bayard Clark

Born in 1869 and dying in 1947, James Bayard Clark was an American author best known today for Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway, a memoir-like portrait of the noted physician Edward Gamaliel Janeway. Records from major library catalogs also show that he wrote on medical subjects, including genitourinary medicine and sexual health.

Clark's bibliography suggests an unusually broad career. Alongside medical works such as Essays on Genitourinary Subjects and The Control of Sex Infections, he also published creative writing, including Doctors—Entre Nous, a collection of short stories, and Helping the Rich, a play in four acts.

That mix of scientific writing and literary work gives his books a distinctive character. Whether writing about medicine or people he had known, he seems to have brought a practitioner's eye for detail and a storyteller's interest in personality.