Brian Clarke, the British author, journalist and angler, died on March 14, 2026, aged 87.
He wrote two books on fly-fishing, The Pursuit of Stillwater Trout (1975) and, with John Goddard, The Trout and the Fly (1980). His environmental novel The Stream, published in 2000, won the international Natural World Book Prize and was named Best First Novel by a British writer by the UK Authors‘ Club in the same year.
Clarke was Angling Correspondent of The Sunday Times from 1975 to 1996 and of The Times from 1991.
James Brian Clarke (28 May 1938 – 14 March 2026) was an English author, journalist and angler. He wrote two works on fly-fishing (The Pursuit of Stillwater Trout, 1975, and (with John Goddard) The Trout and the Fly, 1980). His environmental novel The Stream (2000) was described by David Arnold-Forster, chief executive of English Nature, as “the most significant book of its kind that I have read since Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring”. The Stream became the first work of fiction to win the international Natural World Book Prize, Britain’s environmental book award and, in the same year, was named Best First Novel by a British writer by the UK Authors’ Club. Clarke was Angling Correspondent of The Sunday Times from 1975 to 1996, and was Angling Correspondent of The Times from 1991.