John A. (John Alonzo) Clark

Born in 1801, John Alonzo Clark was an American Episcopal minister and author. He wrote under the name John A. Clark, and surviving library records identify him as the author of Gleanings by the Way, published in 1842.

That book is the work he is most readily linked to today. It combines travel observation with strong religious interests, and it is also associated in library catalogs with early writing about the Mormon movement, showing how closely he followed the religious debates of his time.

Some basic details about his life are easy to confirm, but fuller biographical information is surprisingly limited in the sources I could verify. He died in 1843, leaving behind a small but historically interesting body of writing from the final years of his life.