She received numerous honors including the Grand Prix de Literature of France in 1980), the Horatio Alger Award in 1997, the Gold Medal of Honor from the American-Irish Historical Society, the Spirit of Achievement Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University the first Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2002 and the Christopher Life Achievement Award in 2003.

She writes the Under Suspicion series with Alafair Burke.

She is also the co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of several holiday crossover books including Deck the Halls, He Sees You When You're Sleeping, Santa Cruise, and The Christmas Thief. Her other works include While My Pretty One Sleeps, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Moonlight Becomes You, Pretend You Don't See Her, No Place Like Home, The Lost Years, The Melody Lingers On, and As Time Goes By. in philosophy from Fordham University in 1979. She decided to focus on writing mystery/suspense novels and in 1975 Where Are the Children? was published. Top investigative journalist Pat Traymore is in Washington, finding out. Her debut novel, Aspire to the Heavens, which is a fictionalized account of the life of George Washington, did not sell well. Read 349 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.

After her husband died in 1964, leaving her with five children, she worked for many years writing four-minute radio scripts before turning to novels. She supplemented the family's income by writing short stories. After graduating from high school and before she got married, she worked as a secretary, a copy editor, and an airline stewardess. Urn:oclc:702239529 Republisher_date 20131123094858 Republisher_operator Scandate 20131111013331 Scanner Higgins Clark was born in the Bronx, New York on December 24, 1927. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:32:22 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1109605 Boxid_2 CH118501 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor

Stillwatch by Mary Higgins Clark