Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins was born in the Bronx December 24, 1927. She was the only daughter of Irish immigrants, Luke Higgins and his wife Nora. His father died when Mary was only 11 years.
financial difficulties to help your mother, Mary went to secretarial school after her high school diploma. He worked at an advertising agency for three years until she decided she wanted to stay.
In 1949 Mary was a stewardess with Pan American Airlines. Run was Europe,Africa and Asia. He says: "I fell in a revolution in Syria and last flight into Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain." Of course, then you were like an asterisk, because Pan Pam was the airline for the job.
After her marriage in1950 to his neighbor, Warren Clark, who had met as a teenager, Mary began writing short stories. He sold one of his first stories in 1956 for $ 100.
Warren and Mary had five children together, but Warren died of a heart attackin 1964. Left raising children alone, Mary began writing radio scripts and patriotic books. The first book he wrote, "Aspire to heaven." In 2002, Meredith Press republished this book under a new title, "Mount Vernon Love Story."
Mary went back to college, graduated cum laude with a degree in philosophy at Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 1979. Later, asked why the philosophy, as you said a lot of psychology in the philosophy that helped her betterWriter. Today, Mary has thirteen honorary doctorates.
Mary does not spend a lot of psychology in his novels. ESP applications, says Mary, who she believes that all authors have an intuitive feeling that "I firmly believe in ESP. Sometimes there are transmission of thoughts ..." However, it is not believe in channeling or reincarnation.
Mary Higgins Clark takes a lot of controversial topics in his novels, such as fertility clinics, the death penalty, HMO, multiple personality and parapsychology.However, Mary has never used violence or explicit sex in his books. Maybe that's why they read the growing number of young adults in their novels on them.
daughter of Mary and Carol Higgins Clark, also a writer of tension, wrote several books to work with her.
In 1996 John married Mary Conheeney. John is the former chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch Futures. They Saddle River, New Jersey.
Although Mary known as "The Queen of Suspense" is, she says she stillI want a book that a generation of writing Saga.
Books by Mary Higgins Clark
Series:
Regan Reilly (with Carol Higgins Clark)
Deck the Halls (2000)
The Christmas Thief ((2004)
Santa Cruise (2006)
Dashing through the snow (2008)
Stand-alone novels:
Aspire to Heaven (1960)
Where are the Children (1975)
A Stranger is watching? (1977)
The Cradle Will Fall (1980)
A Cry in the Dark (1982)
Stillwatch (1984)
Weep no more, myLady (1987)
While My Pretty One Sleeps (1989)
He loves music, loves to dance (1991)
Around the City (1992)
"I'll Be Seeing You (1993)
Remember Me (1994)
Pretending not to see (1994)
Silent Night (1995)
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1995)
Moonlight Becomes You (1996)
You Belong to Me (1998)
All night (1998)
We'll Meet Again (1999)
Before I Say Good-Bye (2000)
He sees when you sleep (2001) (with Carol HigginsClark)
On The Street Where You Live (2001)
Daddy's Little Girl (2002)
The Second Time Around (2003)
Nighttime Is My Time (2004)
No Place Like Home (2005)
2006 Two Little Girls in Blue ()
I heard that Song Before (2007)
Where Are You Now (2008)
Just Take My Heart (2009)
The shadow of your smile (2010)
Fiction Children:
Ghost Ship: A History of Cape Cod (2007)
Non Fiction:
Mother (1996) (with Maya Angelou and Amy Tan)
KitchenPrivileges: A Memoir (2001)
anthologies of publication:
Murder on the corridor: The 1987 Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1987)
Caribbean Blues (1988)
Woman of Mystery (1992) (with Faye Kellerman and Cynthia Manson)
Bad Behaviour (1995)
The plot thickens (1997)
The night awake (1998)
Great Mystery Series: 11 of the best stories of Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (2000) (with Lawrence Block and RalphMcInerny)
Collections:
The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories (1989)
This is the business / Voices in the coal bin (1990) (with Carol Higgins Clark)
The death of the Cape and Other Stories (1993)
Stowaway and Milk Run (1993)
The lottery winner: Alvirah and Willy Stories (1994)
My Gal Sunday: Henry and Sunday Stories (1996)
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