John C. Burnham has written the following obituary.  Both John and I knew Professor Clark, who was an accomplished scholar and intellectual.

Norman H. Clark, an outstanding social historian, died on 9 February 2004 in LaConner WA.  He was the author of Deliver Us from Evil:  An Interpretation of American Prohibition (1976), still the best general book on American Prohibition.  He established his reputation with a classic, The Dry Years:  Prohibition and Social Change in Washington (1965, 2^nd ed. 1988), in which he pioneered in showing that Prohibition was not an aberration.  He was born in Mesa AZ on 10 May 1925.  He held a bachelors degree from Southern Methodist University and a Ph.D. from the University of Washington.  He taught for many years at Everett Community College and served as president of that institution.  He retired from the faculty in 1985.