Marry higgins clark biography
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Born in the Bronx in , Mary Higgins Clark was the daughter of an Irish-American pub owner. Her father died when she was 10, forcing her family to move to a small apartment above a tailor's shop. Clark won a scholarship to a girls' academy in high school and worked part time as a switchboard operator and babysitter. Eager to help her mother with finances, she put off college to work full time after her high school graduation.
Clark attended secretarial school and then worked as an advertising assistant. Three years later, she became a flight attendant for Pan Am. She traveled the world for a year and then married Warren Clark, whom she had known since she was While raising five children, she found time to take a creative writing course at New York University. In , after 15 years of marriage, her husband died. To support her family, Clark began writing radio scripts during the day and ventured into book writing in the early morning hours before getting her children off to school. He
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Mary Higgins Clark
December 24, – January 31,
The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has written thirty-eight suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a historical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. With her daughter julsång Higgins Clark, she has coauthored fem more suspense novels, and also wrote The Cinderella Murder, All Dressed in vit, The Sleeping Beauty Killer, Every Breath You Take and You Don’t Own Me with bestselling author Alafair Burke. More than one hundred million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone. Her books are international bestsellers.
Two of her novels were made into feature films, Where Are the Children? and A Stranger Is Watching. Many of her other works, novels and short stories, were made into television films.
Mary Higgins Clark was chosen by Mystery Writers of America as Grand mästare of the Edgar Awards. She was the president of Mystery Writers of America and, for many year