NEW YORK -- Mary Higgins Clark, the tireless and long-reigning "Queen of Suspense" whose tales of women beating the odds made her one of the world's most popular writers, died Friday at age 92. She was born Mary Higgins in 1927 in New York City, the second of three children. A story she wrote in grade school impressed her teacher enough that Clark read it to the rest of the class. But by the mid-60s, the magazine market for fiction was rapidly shrinking and her husband's health was failing; Warren Clark died of a heart attack in 1964. "It seemed inconceivable to most of us that any woman could do that to her children," Mary Clark wrote in her memoir.

Source: ABC News February 01, 2020 03:04 UTC