John H. Clark IV is the great-grandson of George Cheever Hazelet an 1898 Alaska Gold Rush pioneer and adventurer. He founded Old Stone Press in 2012 to publish HAZELET'S JOURNAL and to help others that had similar books or extraordinary stories to tell. Prior to that John Clark owned and operated a custom manufacturing and commercial printing company for 27 years. Midland communications Packaging, Inc. was a national award winning innovator in the presentation-packaging field. Midland designed, printed and built custom loose-leaf ring binders, high impact point-of-purchase retail packaging and presentation packaging for business and industry. Midland was sold in March of 2006 so John could pursue other interests and explore the book publishing industry. After publishing the award-winning coffee-table book, HISTORY IN THE MAKING: The Story of the American Printing House for the Blind in 2008 through the late Bill Butler and Butler Books, he soon launched Old Stone Press to meet the needs of author-publishers like himself who needed help navigating the often overwhelming wilderness of the self-publishing and the book packaging industry. He received a BA in Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico.

As his great-grandfather did, John has fallen in love with Alaska, "the last real American Frontier." He currently is working on other related Alaska genre books, however HAZELET'S JOURNAL has so captured his imagination that he is actively seeking a partnership in writing a screenplay for this true 19th/20th century American story. Besides Old Stone Press, Clark is the president of The Port Valdez Company, which traces its land holdings to George Cheever Hazelet and his partner Andrew Jackson Meals original scripting of 720 acres in Valdez, AK. He and his wife Gretchen live in Louisville, Kentucky. hazeletsjournal.com

“An engaging piece of nonfiction...”
– Kirkus Reviews