Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins was born in the Bronx on 24 December 1927. She was the only daughter of Irish immigrants, Luke Higgins and his wife Nora. His father died when Mary was only 11 years.
In order to fight their mother financially, Mary went to secretarial school after high school. He has worked at an advertising agency for three years until she decided she wanted to travel.
In 1949 Mary was a flight attendant for Pan American Airlines. Your race was EuropeAfrica and Asia. She says: "I went to a revolution in Syria and last flight into Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain." Obviously you were there then as asterisks Pan Pam was away for work.
After her marriage in1950 neighbor, Warren Clark, whom he had known since 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 education of children to write their own, Mary began patriotic radio scripts and books. The first book he wrote was "Aspire to the sky." In 2002, Meredith Press published a new book entitled "Mount Vernon Love Story."
Mary returned to college graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy from Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 1979. Later called philosophy, because, he said that there is a lot of psychology in the philosophy that helped her to betterWriter. Today, Mary has thirteen honorary degrees.
Maria has many uses psychology in his novels. When asked about ESP, Maria says she believes that all authors to have an intuitive sense. "Sometimes I believe in telepathy, ESP is ..." However, you do not believe in reincarnation and channeling.
Mary Higgins Clark takes a lot of controversial topics in his novels, such as fertility clinics, the death penalty, HMO, multiple personalities and parapsychology.However, Maria has never used violence or explicit sex in his books. Maybe that's why they appeal to the growing number of young adults to read his novels.
Mary's daughter Carol Higgins Clark, also a writer of power, has written several books in collaboration with her.
In 1996 John married Mary Conheeney. John is the retired chairman and CEO of Merrill-Lynch Futures. They Saddle River, New Jersey home.
Although Mary is known as "The Queen of Suspense," she sayswants a book that a generation 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)
Still Watch (1984)
Weep not, myLady (1987)
While My Pretty One Sleeps (1989)
He loves music, loves to dance (1991)
Throughout the City (1992)
I'll Be Seeing You (1993)
Remember Me (1994)
Pretending not See Her (1994)
Silent Night (1995)
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1995)
Moonlight Becomes You (1996)
You Belong to Me (1998)
All night long (1998)
We'll Meet Again (1999)
Prior to Say Good-Bye (2000)
He sees you when you sleep (2001) (with Carol HigginsClark)
On the street where you live (2001)
Daddy's Little Girl (2002)
The Second Time Around (2003)
Night 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 for children:
Ghost Ship: A History of Cape Cod (2007)
Non Fiction:
Mother (1996) (with Maya Angelou and Amy Tan)
KitchenPrivileges: A Memoir (2001)
Edited anthologies:
Death on the corridor: The 1987 Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1987)
Caribbean Blues (1988)
Women of Mystery (1992) (with Faye Kellerman and Cynthia Manson)
Bad behavior (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)
Death on 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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