Mary higgins clark biography complete subjects

Mary Higgins Clark, born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins, was a renowned American suspense novelist. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the U.S.

and Europe, with her debut, "Where Are the Children?", achieving its seventy-fifth printing by 2015. Her suspense novels have sold over 100 million copies in the U.S. alone.

Mary higgins clark children

Her family includes writers Mary Jane Clark and Carol Higgins Clark[1†][2†].

Early Years and Education

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins was born on Christmas Eve, 1927[1†]. Some sources mistakenly cite 1929 as the year[1†].

She was the second child and only daughter of Nora C. (Durkin) and Luke Joseph Higgins[1†]. Her father was an Irish immigrant and her mother was American-born, also of Irish descent[1†]. The family lived off the earnings from their Irish pub and were fairly well-off, owning a home in the Bronx and a summer cottage on Long Island Sound[1†].

Even as a small child, she was interested in writing, composing he