Kim Clarke is a narrative writer who explores the human side of World War II, the history of the University of Michigan, and memoir.
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"In a makeshift morgue, teams kept placing muddy remains at a processing table. Conveyor belts churned as they moved caskets and shipping cases along a morbid assembly line. Here would come a body, twenty pounds of fractured bone and no more. Nothing that resembled a man. An army serial number, 35900811. My grandfather."
Excerpt from "The Last Full Measure"
About Kim Clarke
Kim Clarke specializes in longform historical narratives. Her book, The Last Full Measure: An American Family and How the United States Brought Home the Dead of World War II, will appear in July 2026. Her work has been published by the Washington Post, the American Historical Association, the University of Michigan Press, Consequence, HerStry, Flying Island literary journal, and other publications.
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