He also wrote and appeared on a local comedy series, The Late, Late Show, hosted by his friend Lenny Clarke and written by Boston comedy writer Martin Olson.

Arthur Clarke also wrote an essay in which he described the game and how he got hooked on it.

In letters to Clarke he wrote of the absurdity of the existing system, complaining primarily about the unfairness of it to authors, and " he parallels between Locke's commentary and those reasons presented by the Commons to the Lords for refusing to renew the 1662 Act are striking ".

Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while staying at the Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and intellectual exchange.

During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many great writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, O. Henry, Herbert Huncke, Dylan Thomas, Arthur C. Clarke, William S. Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Arnold Weinstein, Leonard Cohen, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Arthur Miller, Quentin Crisp, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac ( who wrote On the Road there ), Robert Hunter, Jack Gantos, Brendan Behan, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, Thomas Wolfe, Charles Bukowski, Raymond Kennedy, Matthew Richardson, James T. Farrell, Valerie Solanas, Mary Cantwell, and René Ricard.

In London in 1906, Sir George Sydenham Clarke wrote, " The battle of Tsu-shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar "; decades later, historian Edmund Morris maintained that it remained the greatest naval battle since Trafalgar.

Clarke later wrote the short story " The Curse ", which takes place in a post-apocalyptic Stratford-upon-Avon.

The novel first took shape in July 1946, when Clarke wrote " Guardian Angel ", a short story that would eventually become Part I of Childhood's End.

At the time he wrote the novel, Clarke was interested in the paranormal, and it wasn't until much later than he became, in his words, " an almost total sceptic ".

Aldiss and Wingrove wrote that Childhood's End rested on " a rather banal philosophical idea ," but that Clarke " expressed is simple but aspiring language that vaguely recalls the Psalms combined with a dramatized sense of loss undeniable effect.

In the late 1980s, Roy Clarke wrote novels featuring Compo, Clegg and Seymour.

Many well-known science fiction writers were to follow, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Clifford Simak, plus Robert A. Heinlein who wrote The Puppet Masters in 1953.

The Guardian's Betty Clarke wrote a negative review, saying that " Her cover of Roy Orbison's I Drove All Night is full of reverberating notes and sultry asides, but reveals a fundamental lack of sincerity that renders her threatening when she is trying for tender.

Arthur C. Clarke wrote a parody of Coleridge's poem, describing his tumultuous experience co-scripting the film 2001.

* John Henry Clarke wrote that " In 1787, Hahnemann discovered the best test for arsenic and other poisons in wine, having pointed out the unreliable nature of the " Wurtemberg test ," which had been in use up to that date.

He also edited the Clarke Papers ( 1891 – 1901 ), and Mrs Hutchinson's Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson ( 1885 ), and wrote an introduction to the Stuart Tracts, 1603 – 1693 ( 1903 ), besides contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography.

Cooper's book rallies the opinions of other contemporary Black authors, such as the poet George Elliott Clarke, who wrote her preface.

Clarke wrote " Let's Get Together " for the pop girl group Girl Authority for their second album, Road Trip.

Through her daughter who married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier, Clarke was the ancestress of author Daphne Du Maurier, who wrote the novel Mary Anne about her life.

Her daughter, born of her marriage to Clarke, married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and was the mother of the caricaturist George du Maurier ( 1834 – 96 ) and the great-grandmother of the novelist Daphne du Maurier ( 1907 – 1989 ), who wrote a book about her ( Mary Anne ).

Clarke wrote:

She wrote that Colonel Thomas Clarke had been told by Maitland, " it was too late to think of committee member's widow Mrs. Nichol as I have pledged my word to Mrs. Secord that as soon as possible she should have the key.

In 1980, Clarke wrote and starred in a local television show Lenny Clarke's Late Show featuring Wright and Leary, in collaboration with Boston comedy writer Martin Olson.

Thomas Ernest Bennett " Tibby " Clarke ( 7 June 1907 – 11 February 1989 ) was a movie scriptwriter who wrote several of the Ealing Studios comedies.

Based on this account, Wen-Djang Chu wrote that 80 % of the 600, 000 or more Zunghars were destroyed by a combination of disease and warfare, which Michael Clarke described as " the complete destruction of not only the Zunghar state but of the Zunghars as a people.

In April 2012, Clarke wrote an op-ed in the New York Times addressing cyberattacks.

The prime evidence for this theory was provided by a descendant of Clarke.

Australia, captained by Michael Clarke, batted first on a cloudy day after winning the toss and were bowled out for 280.

Peter Clarke, Tim Follin and David Whittaker converted the music for the home computer ports ( some versions feature the ending sequence track for the title screen music, such as on the Commodore Amiga version by David Whittaker ).

In a 1973 revision of his compendium of essays, Profiles of the Future, Clarke acknowledged the Second Law and proposed the Third in order to round out the number, adding " As three laws were good enough for Newton, I have modestly decided to stop there ".

* Linda Nagy, aka Ellen Troy, who has wetware in her brain, spines in her fingers ( for linking with computers ) and an antenna that lets her shut down machine remotely from the Venus Prime series by Arthur C. Clarke and Paul Preuss

Caitlin Clarke ( May 3, 1952 – September 9, 2004 ) was an American theater and film actress best known for her role as Valerian in the 1981 fantasy film Dragonslayer and for her role as Charlotte Cardoza in the 1998 – 1999 Broadway musical Titanic.

After appearing in three Broadway plays in 1985, Clarke moved to Los Angeles for several years as a film and television actress.

Tony Clarke and Richard Wadman laid out the specifications for the Dragon.

While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Dan Simmons has been nominated on numerous occasions in a range of categories for his fiction, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, Bram Stoker Award, British Fantasy Society Award, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, and World Fantasy Award.

Responsibility for the planning of the rising was given to Tom Clarke and Seán MacDermott.

In May 1915, Clarke and MacDermott established a Military Committee within the IRB, consisting of Pearse, Plunkett and Ceannt, to draw up plans for a rising.

Claude Gordon made use of pedal tones for embouchure development as did Maggio and Herbert L. Clarke.

In 1819 Edward D. Clarke and in 1822 René Juste Haüy described fluorescence in fluorites, Sir David Brewster described the phenomenon for chlorophyll in 1833 and Sir John Herschel did the same for quinine in 1845.

But science fiction writers have a fairly good track record in predicting future technologies — for example geosynchronous communications satellites ( Arthur C. Clarke ) and many aspects of computer technology ( Mack Reynolds ).

Major kept his economic team unchanged for seven months after Black Wednesday before he replaced Norman Lamont with Kenneth Clarke as Chancellor of the Exchequer, after months of press criticism of Lamont and disastrous defeat at a by-election in Newbury.

Subsequently, the name 2001 Mars Odyssey was selected for the orbiter as a specific tribute to the vision of space exploration shown in works by Arthur C. Clarke, including 2001: A Space Odyssey.

* Morpheus, a composition for viola and piano by Rebecca Helferich Clarke