a daughter's memoir sheds new light on the notoriously private John Clarke
- Written by Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University
Not long after John Clarke died in April 2017, his elder daughter, Lorin, attended a children’s birthday party where she found herself standing alone.
A woman came up to pass on her condolences. Another woman, a stranger, overheard and squealed. Your dad was John Clarke? “Are you serious? I love him!” Trying to go along with it,...