Grahame Clark by Brian Fagan, Westview Press, Boulder, $26, ISBN
0813336023
CAN you write a sparkling biography of a dull person? In stressing that this
is an “intellectual biography”, Brian Fagan is perhaps conceding that the
challenge has defeated even his formidable writing skills and Grahame Clark
could be presented only via a chronological summary of his writings.
We learn almost nothing of Clark as a man—his tastes, his family life,
his beliefs. There are no humorous anecdotes or vignettes you’d find in accounts
of other major archaeologists, such as the effervescent Glyn Daniel or the
eccentric and ultimately…
