Mary Higgins Clark

Posted September 20, 2008, 11:34 am in Books


Mary Higgins Clark
Born: December 24, 1927

The Queen of Suspense. Suspense and mystery writer whose books have sold more than 80 million copies in the United States. Each of her 24 published novels has reached the best-seller list; she's also the No. 1 best-selling fiction author in France.

After the Age of Seventy

• Has published 20 novels since turning 70.
• At age 70, won the Horatio Alger Award.
• At age 71, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Fordham University.
• At age 71, won the Catholic Big Sisters Distinguished Service Award.
• At age 72, won the Graymoor Award from the Franciscan Friars.
• At age 75, won the Digest Author of the Year Award.
• At age 81, published best-seller Where Are You Now?
• At age 81, won the International Mystery Writers' First Lady of Mystery Award
• At age 81, began writing a new book.
• At age 81, named Reader's Digest Author of the Year

Quotes:

• "If you want to be happy for life, love what you do."
• "The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet."
• "Happiness is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again."
  

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