were blamed for her death. Hoagy recalled in his autobiography, Sometimes I Wonder (Farrar, Straus, 1965), that after John Clayton's death Martha "gathered up his papers and manuscript and made another book for him, and then one night while still young and healthy, she quietly let go." References External links The Hoagy Carmichael collection at Indiana University Photograph of the Claytons from the above collection 20th-century American male writers Clayton, John Bell and Martha Clayton, John Bell