The American writer Mary Higgins Clark, “queen of suspense”, died at the age of 92, announced its editor, Simon and Schuster.
“It is with deep sadness that we say goodbye to the ‘Queen of suspense’Wrote the editor on his Twitter account. “She died peacefully (…) surrounded by family and friends“.
Mary Higgins Clark, one of the world’s best-selling writers, has died “surrounded by family and friends“, Said the editor Friday, January 31.
She has written around fifty books sold in some hundred million copies, including more than 80 million in the United States, since her first great success in 1975, The lookout house.
Born in New York, in the Bronx, on December 24, 1927, into a modest family of Irish origin, Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark says that she caught the writing virus at the age of 7, the Irish being often “born storytellers ». Family dramas will convince her that the worst can always happen and it is this moment when everything changes which she likes to describe in her books.
She was 35 years old when her husband died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 44, leaving her widowed with five dependent children. She becomes a typist again but still dreams of making a living from her writing. After news, radio soap operas, a biography of George Washington, published but unsuccessful, she embarked on the detective story. The lookout house is a best seller since its publication in 1975, as Fox night (1977) who made her a millionaire, prompting her French publisher, Albin Michel, to create a Special Suspense collection.
In his memoirs, Between yesterday and tomorrow (2003), the one who since 1996 is the wife of the influential businessman John Conheeney, assured that she would write until her death because if “winning the lottery makes you happy a year, doing what you love makes you happy a lifetime“.
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