Clay Fulks was a writer on Arkansas lore. In his articles Fulks was one of those who shared H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken

Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the...

's dichotomy between a backward and an enlightened South. This dichotomy Fulks blamed on an infestation of parsons. In 1918 he stood, and lost, as Socialist Party of America

Socialist Party of America

The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...

 candidate for governor of Arkansas against Charles Hillman Brough

Charles Hillman Brough

Charles Hillman Brough was the 25th Governor of the U.S. state of Arkansas from 1917 to 1921.Charles Brough was born in Clinton, Mississippi. In 1894, he graduated from Mississippi College in Clinton. He earned his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University in 1898, and graduated from the law school at the...

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Works

Fulks was author of Rev. Ben M. Bogard Fails to Halt Devil Darrow and The War Between Science and Faith.