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Mary Higgins Clark was born in New York City where her family lived above a tailor shop. She was only ten years old when her father died. In her teens she went to secretarial school and secured a job with an advertising agency to help with family finances.
A thirst for adventure led to work as a flight attendant before starting a family. When her husband died unexpectedly she supplemented the income from her regular ‘day job’ by writing radio scripts and later, books. She wrote in the morning before work.
All 42 of her books have been best sellers. Her debut suspense novel Where Are the Children has undergone more than 75 printings.
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