Its publisher in the United States announced it on Saturday morning. Mary Higgins Clark was 92 years old.
Mary Higgins Clark died at home Friday January 31 in Florida at the age of 92, announced on Saturday February 1 her American editor. “It is with deep sadness that we say goodbye to the ‘Queen of Suspense’ Mary Higgins Clark”, writes the editor. “She died peacefully on January 31, aged 92, surrounded by family and friends”.
It is with deep sadness we say goodbye to the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark.
She passed away peacefully this evening, January 31, at the age of 92 surrounded by family and friends. pic.twitter.com/zjIhIIt8tP
– Simon & Schuster (@simonschuster) February 1, 2020
“Mary Higgins Clark has written thirty-eight thriller novels, four short stories, one historical novel, and also two children’s books”, still recalls the editor in a press release. His novels have won over 100 million copies in the United States alone.
The writer was also very popular in France, where she received the Grand Prix of detective literature in 1980 and the Literary Prize at the 1998 Deauville Film Festival. In 2000, she was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Letters by the French Minister for Culture.
Mary Higgins Clark was born in the Bronx, in New York, in 1927. Coming from a modest family, she was a secretary, then a flight attendant and to make ends meet, she also wrote a little for American radio. His first short story was published in 1956. He had to wait fifteen years for Simon & Schuster to buy him his first novel, Where are the childrenat the time for $ 3,500. This black novel which tells the assassination by a mother of her two children, entitled The Watchtower (in French) has since been reprinted more than 75 times.
The best sellers will then be linked at the rate of almost one per year. Fox night, Doctor H’s clinic , Sweet night… Many of them have been adapted to the cinema as A cry in the night, written in 1982, whose main performer will be an unrecognizable Meryl Streep, dyed brown.
Mary Higgins Clark’s daughter Carole Higgins Clark will follow the same path and together they will write a four-handed book in the early 2000s.
Where did his taste for suspense and murder come from? In Fox night, who at the age of 32 finds herself widowed with five children writes: “Never judge people. You don’t know what grief tears them apart.”
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