'I was in a revolution in Syria and on the last flight into Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain went down. 'My run was Europe, Africa and Asia,' she recalls. For the year 1949, she was a stewardess on Pan American Airlines' After three years of working in an advertising agency, travel fever seized her. On graduating from high school, she went to secretarial school, so she could get a job and help with the family finances. BornĪnd raised in the Bronx, her father died when she was eleven and her mother struggled to raise her and her two brothers. Mary Higgins Clark's fame as a writer was achieved against heavy odds. Stories, were made into television films.

Many of her other works, novels and short Two of her novels were made into feature films, Where Are the Children?Īnd A Stranger Is Watching. Novels Deck the Halls (2000), He Sees You When You're Sleeping She is co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of three suspense Paperback by Pocket Books in October 2003. Privileges, was published by Simon & Schuster in November 2002 and in trade New title, Mount Vernon Love Story, in June 2002. Washington, originally titled Aspire to the Heavens, was published with a A re-issue of her first book, a biographical novel about George Willy Stories (1994) and My Gal Sunday: Henry and Sunday Stories She is the author of three collections of short stories, TheĪnastasia Syndrome & Other Stories (1989), The Lottery Winner: Alvirah & You Live (2001), Daddy's Little Girl (2002), The Second Time Around (2003), Nighttime is My Time (2004) and No Place Like Home

Moonlight Becomes You (1996), Pretend You Don't See Her (1997), You Belong To Me (1998), All Through the Night (1998), We'll Meet Again (1999), Before I Say Good-Bye (2000), On the Street Where One Sleeps (1989), Loves Music, Loves to Dance (1991), All Around the Town (1992), I'll Be Seeing You (1993), Remember Me (1994), Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1995), Silent Night (1995), (1978), The Cradle Will Fall (1980), A Cry in the Night (1982), Stillwatch (1984), Weep No More, My Lady (1987), While My Pretty She is the author of over twenty-five suspense novels, including Where Are the Children? (1975), A Stranger Is Watching alone, her books have sold over 80 million copies.

Mary Higgins Clark's books are world-wide bestsellers.

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