Kim Clarke is Delbert Trueman's granddaughter. She is an award-winning writer who, for more than thirty-five years, has worked as a daily newspaper reporter and editor, magazine editor, and speechwriter. She has written for the Detroit News, Michigan Monthly, and the Chicago Tribune, among other outlets, and in 2022, the Washington Post published her feature on the repatriation of American war dead. She lives in Ypsilanti, Michigan.