Stephen Clarkson

Stephen Clarkson is a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Yale College, and the University of Virginia School of Law. He practiced law in New York City and Washington, D.C. He later served as vice president, general counsel and secretary of Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. Now retired, he and is wife, Mary Claire, live in his boyhood home, Rye, New Hampshire. He has published five books: Patriot's Reward is a story about a slave owned by his ancestors in Portsmouth, New Hampshire who becomes a hero in the American Revolution. A Different Time, A Different Man, is a biography of John L. Sullivan, FDR's Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and Truman's Secretary of the Navy. Daisy's Song is a semi-fictional World War I story of an illegitimate young woman with an exceptional singing voice who becomes entangled in an international spy plot. The Last Run unveils the story behind a mysterious rum running episode on the coast of New Hampshire during Prohibition. Clarkson's latest book, Salt Marsh Destiny, The Story of the 1635 Voyage of the 'Thistle', is a short story that preserves the tale of a group of Scottish separatists who make the dangerous expedition to the New World for religious freedom and the opportunity to establish their own political destiny.