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VJ Books Presents Mary Higgins Clark!
Mary Higgins Clark's books are world-wide bestsellers. In the U.S. alone, her books have sold over 80 million copies. Two of her novels were made into feature films, Where Are the Children? and A Stranger Is Watching. Many of her other works, novels and short stories, were made into television films.
Mary Higgins Clark's fame as a writer was achieved against heavy odds. Born and raised in the Bronx, her father died when she was eleven and her mother struggled to raise her and her two brothers. On graduating from high school, she went to secretarial school, so she could get a job and help with the family finances. After three years of working in an advertising agency, travel fever seized her. For the year 1949, she was a stewardess on Pan American Airlines' international flights. "My run was Europe, Africa and Asia," she recalls. "I was in a revolution in Syria and on the last flight into Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain went down. After flying for a year, she married a neighbor, Warren Clark, nine years her senior, whom she had known since she was 16. Soon after her marriage, she started writing short stories, finally selling her first to Extension Magazine in 1956 for $100.
Left a young widow by the death of her husband from a heart attack in 1964, Mary Higgins Clark went to work writing radio scripts and, in addition, decided to try her hand at writing books. Her very first book was a biographical novel about George Washington, inspired by a radio series she was writing, "Portrait of a Patriot." Originally published in 1969 by Meredith Press with the title Aspire to the Heavens, it was discovered years later by a Washington family member and re-issued in 2002 with the title, Mount Vernon Love Story.
Mary Higgins Clark's first suspense novel, Where Are the Children? was published by Simon & Schuster in 1975. It became a bestseller and marked a turning point in her life and career. It is currently in its 75th edition in paperback and was re-issued in hardcover as a Simon & Schuster classic.
Mary Higgins Clark was chosen by Mystery Writers of America as Grand Master of the 2000 Edgar Awards. An annual Mary Higgins Clark Award sponsored by Simon & Schuster, to be given to authors of suspense fiction writing in the Mary Higgins Clark tradition, was launched by Mystery Writers of America during Edgars week in 2001. She was the 1987 president of Mystery Writers of America and, for many years, served on their Board of Directors.
She is an active advocate and participant in literacy programs. In 1996, Mary Higgins Clark married John Conheeney, the retired Chairman and CEO of Merrill-Lynch Futures. They live in Saddle River, New Jersey. Between them, they have sixteen grandchildren -- Mary's six and John's ten. Mary continues to co-author novels with her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark.
The Lost Years
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To see Mary Higgins Clark's bibliography, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.
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Mary Higgins Clark Bibliography
Fiction
1968 - Aspire to the Heavens (reissued in 2000 as Mount Vernon Love Story)
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
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 officially published out of anthologies)
1994 - Remember Me
1994 - The Lottery Winner and Other Stories
1995 - Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1995 - Silent Night
1996 - Moonlight Becomes You
1996 - My Gal Sunday: Henry and Sunday Stories
1997 - Pretend You Don't See Her
1998 - You Belong to Me
1998 - All Through The Night
1999 - We'll Meet Again
2000 - Before I Say Good-Bye
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
2006 - Two Little Girls in Blue
2007 - Ghost Ship: A Cape Cod Story
2007 - I Heard That Song Before
2008 - Where Are You Now?
2009 - Just Take My Heart
2010 - The Shadow of Your Smile
2011 - I'll Walk Alone
2011 - The Magical Christmas Horse (illustrated by Wendell Minor)
2012 - The Lost Years (forthcoming April 3, 2012)
Non-Fiction
· 1993 Mother Salut (with Amy Tan and Maya Angelou)
· 2001 Kitchen Privileges, A Memoir'
Books co-authored with her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark
2000 - Deck The Halls
2001 - He Sees You When You're Sleeping
2004 - The Christmas Thief
2006 - Santa Cruise
2008 - Dashing Through The Snow
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