Mary Higgins Clark
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born
December 24, 1927
gender
female
place of birth
Bronx, New York, United States
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genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers
about this author
Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, best known as Mary Higgins Clark, (b December 24, 1927 in the Bronx, New York) is an American author of suspense novels. Each of her twenty-four suspense novels has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remain in print as of 2007, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are The Children, in its seventy-fifth printing.
Clark began writing at an early age. After several years working as a secretary and copy editor, Clark spent a year as a stewardess for Pan-American Airlines before leaving her job to marry and start a family. She supplemented the family's income by writing short stories. After her husband died in 1959, Clark worked for many ye...more
books by Mary Higgins Clark
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quotes by Mary Higgins Clark
"It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your life, every once in a while something comes up that plays "gotcha," and for a moment or tow the car tissue seperates and the wound is raw again."
— Mary Higgins Clark (The Second Time Around: A Novel)
— Mary Higgins Clark (The Second Time Around: A Novel)
"live your life as if you may lose everything."
— Mary Higgins Clark (All Through the Night (Holiday Classics))
— Mary Higgins Clark (All Through the Night (Holiday Classics))
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