Clark McCann grew up in L.A. and ran off to Mexico at 17 to try his hand at bullfighting under the tutelage of the legendary American matador Sidney Franklin—a Hemingway pal in the late Twenties and Thirties. After a year of training and no bookings, he returned home to college, pilot training in the Marine Corps, and a year as a bush pilot in Western Australia. Deciding against a career as an airline pilot, Clark returned to his first love, writing, and began to place freelance articles in popular magazines, as well as poetry in literary journals. He also tried his hand at screen writing, selling two comedy scripts that were never produced. After five years as a free-lancer, he landed a series of corporate jobs in communications, which led to a prestigious position at Boeing as speech writer for the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.
He finished his career as a communications director for the University of Washington. Upon retirement, he plunged into his first novel, Black Air, which combined his love of Mexico and his passion for the sport of paragliding. Clark and his wife, Beth, have a son who is a Navy pilot and combat veteran. When not paragliding, Clark enjoys hiking and skiing. He is at work on a second novel.
