All Around the Town
About the Author:
Mary Higgins Clark
Born in the Bronx of Irish immigrant parents, Mary Higgins Clark was educated in Catholic elementary and high school. She learned secretarial skills to be able to have a job and help support her family after her father died. She was drawn to travel and became a stewardess and worked a year for Pan Am Airlines. She left to marry her first husband, Warren Clark. When he became ill and unable to work, Mary took a job writing radio segments for "Portrait of a Patriot", and thus began her writing career. She earned a B.A.in Philosphy from Fordham University, graduating summa sum laude and continued to write and publish several short stories.
Clark's first really successful novel, Where Are the Children, was later made into a movie. She has written more than twenty-five suspense novels, four seasonal novels with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, and has become the most read suspense novelist in the world. Many of her novels deal with crimes involving children or have a telepathic element in them. Her publisher, Simon and Schuster, have funded the Mary Higgins Clark Award given by the Mystery Writers of America.
She and her third husband, John J. Conheeny, have several homes but live primarily in Saddlebrook, New Jersey.
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