Mary Higgins Clark Biography
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Mary Higgins Clark ( December 24, 1929) is a
best-selling American mystery and suspense writer.
Born in New York, she lost her father when she was
10 years old, and upon graduation from high school, Mary went to secretarial
school and then to work in an advertising agency. She spent the year of 1949 as
a stewardess on Pan American Airlines, then married neighbor Warren Clark.
She started writing short stories soon after the
wedding, with her first published appearance in Extension Magazine in 1956. Her
husband died in 1964, leaving her with five children, and she turned to writing
radio scripts and later books. Her first book, a biographical novel about George
Washington, barely sold, but her 1975 suspense novel Where are the Children?
became a bestseller, and was followed up by many more.
She attended Fordham University from 1974 to 1979,
getting a B.A. in philosophy.
In 1996 she married again, to John J. Conheeney.
Her daughter Carol Higgins Clark and
daughter-in-law Mary Jane Clark are also mystery writers.
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Books
Fiction:
1975 Where Are The Children?
1977 A Stranger is Watching
1980 The Cradle Will Fall
1982 A Cry in the Night
1984 Stillwatch
1987 Weep No More, My Lady (The introduction of
Alvirah and Willy Meehan, her only continuing charactors)
1989 While My Pretty One Sleeps
1989 The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories
1990 Voices in the Coal Bin (Short Story, only
available as an audio book with Carol Higgins Clark's That's the Ticket)
1991 Loves Music, Loves to Dance
1992 All Around the Town
1993 I'll Be Seeing You
1993 Death on the Cape and Other Stories
1993 Milk Run and Stowaway (Two stories. Like
Voices in the Coal Bin, never officaly published out of anthologies)
1994 Remember Me
1994 The Lottery Winner and Other Stories
1995 Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1995 Silent Night
1995 Pretend You Don't See Her
1996 The Moonlight Becomes You
1996 My Gal Sunday: Harry and Sunday Stories
1998 You Belong to Me
1998 All Through The Night
1999 We'll Meet Again
2000 Before I Say Good-Bye
2000 Mount Vernon Love Story
2001 On The Street Where You Live
2002 Daddy's Little Girl
2003 The Second Time Around
2004 Nighttime Is My Time
2005 No Place Like Home
Non-Fiction
1960 Aspire To The Heavens (Later republished as
Mount Vernon Love Story, as a historical romance)
1993 Mother (With Amy Tan, and Mia Angelou)
2001 Kitchen Privalages, A Memoir
Movie
Adaptions
1982 A Stranger Is Watching
1986 Where Are The Children?
2005 We'll Meet Again
Television Adaptions
1983 The Cradle Will Fall
1987 Stillwatch
1992 Weep No More, My Lady
1992 Double Vision
1992 A Cry in the Night (Starring Carol Higgins
Clark)
1992 Terror Stalks the Class Reuninion
1995 Remember Me (Mary H. Appears as the Charactor
Mary)
1997 Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1997 While My Pretty One Sleeps (Mary appears as
Mary)
1998 Moonlight Becomes You
2001 You Belong to Me
2001 Loves Music, Loves to Dance
2002 Pretend You Don't See Her
2002 Lucky Day
2002 Haven't We Meet Before?
2002 All Around The Town
2004 I'll Be Seeing You
2004 Before I say Good-Bye
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