Bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark dead at age 92.
News headlines today: Jan. 31, 2020NEW YORK -- Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning"Queen of Suspense" whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world's most popular writers, died Friday at age 92."Nobody ever bonded more completely with her readers than Mary did," her longtime editor Michael Korda said in statement."She understood them as if they were members of her own family.
Her own life taught her lessons of resilience — strengthened by her Catholic faith — that she shared with her fictional heroines. She was born Mary Higgins in 1927 in New York City, the second of three children. She would later take the last name Clark after marriage. Her father ran a popular pub that did well enough for the family to afford a maid and for her mother to prepare meals for strangers in need.
Some stories drew upon her experiences at Pan American. Another story, which appeared in The Saturday Evening Post,"Beauty Contest at Buckingham Palace," imagined a pageant featuring Queen Elizabeth II, Jackie Kennedy and Princess Grace of Monaco. But by the mid-60s, the magazine market for fiction was rapidly shrinking and her husband's health was failing; Warren Clark died of a heart attack in 1964.
For her next book, she wanted to make some money. Following a guideline she would often suggest to other writers, she looked at her bookshelves, which featured novels by Agatha Christie, Rex Stout and other mystery writers, and decided she should write the kind of book she liked to read. A recent tabloid trial about a young woman accused of murdering her children gave her an idea.
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