Mary higgins clark author biography worksheet

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 Her suspense novels have sold over million copies in the U.S. alone. 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, [1†]. Some sources mistakenly cite 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 her first poem at age seven and often crafting short plays for her friends to enact[1†]. She began keeping a journal when she was seven years old, noting in her first entry, "Nothing much happened today"[1†].

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