We’ll call it a draw.”She and Warren Clark, from her neighborhood in the Bronx, fell in love, and he proposed on their first date. Although she had begun pitching her first short stories to confession magazines when she was 16, Ms. Higgins Clark endured a rain of rejection slips for the next several years before she sold her first story, “Stowaway,” to Extension magazine in 1956. After 14 years of a marriage, Warren Clark, who worked in the shipping and airline industries, died of a heart attack in 1964, when Ms. Higgins Clark was 37. It failed to make a splash, but was republished in 2002 as “Mount Vernon Love Story” and joined the other Higgins Clark titles on the best-seller lists. Her second suspense novel, “A Stranger Is Watching” (1978), brought in enough money to buy a Cadillac.

Source: New York Times February 01, 2020 04:03 UTC