Books (by date of publication)
- Clover All Over: North Carolina 4-H in Action. Raleigh: North Carolina State University, 1984.
- Talking about Raleigh: A Bicentennial Oral History, ed. James W. Clark, Jr. Raleigh: North Carolina State University, 1993.
- Clover All Over: North Carolina’s First 4-H Century, 1909-2009. Raleigh, N.C.: Ivy House Pub., 2011.
Articles (by date of publication)
- “Literature of North Carolina.” The Companion to Southern Literature. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002.
- “The Family of North Carolina’s Brothers Price: An Interview with William S. Price, Jr.” North Carolina Literary Review, 25 (2016): 164-78; “A Glimpse of ‘these extraordinary Price brothers,'” NCLR Online 2016: 40-46.
- “Forever Growing: Our Common Glory Today,” Program for 2018 Season of The Roanoke Island Historical Association’s Production of Paul Green’s The Lost Colony: 38.
- Clark has also been published in the Mark Twain Journal, North Carolina Libraries, North Carolina Folklore, and the Southern Poetry Review.
Articles in Thomas Wolfe Review (by date of publication)
- “Mountain Grills” Thomas Wolfe Review 8.1 (1983): 69-71.
- “The War Between the Gants.” Thomas Wolfe Review 10.1 (1986): 58-63.
- “Getting Dick Prosser Right.” Thomas Wolfe Review 20.2 (1996): 21-31.
- “George Webber’s Junior Year at Pine Rock College?” Thomas Wolfe Review 24.2 (2000): 11-18.
- “Esther in Dark October.” Thomas Wolfe Review 25 (2001): 14-22.
- “Review of Robert Penn Warren’s Circus Aesthetic and the Southern Renaissance by Patricia Bradley.” Thomas Wolfe Review 29 (2005): 113-15.
- “Eugene Goes to Sydney.” Thomas Wolfe Review 31 (2007): 37-46.
- “Wilma Dykeman: Her Time and the River.” Thomas Wolfe Review 31 (2007): 95-100.
- “Thomas Wolfe’s diagnosis of Leroy dock.” Thomas Wolfe Review 39 (2015): 31-37.
- “Beyond ‘a stone, a leaf, a door’ in Look Homeward, Angel and O Lost.” Thomas Wolfe Review 40 (2016): 41-52.