Friday, August 16th, 2002

Clark Blaise, a native of North Dakota but a resident, at various times of the U.S., Canada, and India, is the acclaimed author of novels (Lunar Attractions, Lusts), story collections (Resident Alien, Tribal Justice) and many works of non-fiction. His most recent book is Time Lord: Sir Sanford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time (Vintage, pb. 13.00), an intriguing historical biography of the man who convinced the world to accept standard time in the late 1800s. A former head of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa, Blaise currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, Bharati Mukherjee.