Joshua Clark

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Joshua Clark is an America author, editor and publisher who resides in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Clark's Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in a Disaster Zone is a National Book Critics Circle nominee in the category of Memoir/Autobiography. Clark, who lives in the Vieux Carré Pontalba Buildings overlooking Jackson Square, remained in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina and the collapse of the levees. Refusing to leave the city at an epic time in American history, Clark tape-records impressionistic interviews with fellow storm survivors. Clark documented a devastated city, with keen eyewitness notes and recordings. His book is a first-person account, a narrative that reads like a novel. After the storm, Clark corresponded for National Public Radio (NPR).