{"id":1222,"date":"2020-02-03T23:43:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:26:36","slug":"mary-higgins-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1222","title":{"rendered":"Mary Higgins Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4e3b308200d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mary higgins clark and daughter\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4e3b308200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4e3b308200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Mary higgins clark and daughter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The famous mystery and suspense writer &#8211; she and her daughter were frequent guests on Imus in the Morning. Led a very fasinating and at times difficult life &#8211; a widow in her 30&#39;s with five children. This is from the Jesuit publication <em><strong>America<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/politics-society\/2020\/02\/03\/mary-higgins-clark-formed-enduring-bond-worldwide-readership?utm_source=Newsletters&amp;utm_campaign=1b0031f2e7-DAILY_CAMPAIGN_2020_02_03&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0fe8ed70be-1b0031f2e7-58468933\">Mary Higgins Clark, known as the &quot;queen of suspense&quot; to her millions of readers throughout the world, died of natural causes in Naples, Florida, Jan. 31. She was 92.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Prior to finding her niche as a suspense writer, Higgins Clark struggled to raise five children as a single parent in New York City. Widowed in her mid-30s, Higgins Clark wrote radio scripts and later found work as an airline flight attendant before striking success in 1975 with her first big-selling book, &quot;Where Are the Children?&quot; Buoyed by that success, Higgins Clark turned to full-time writing and enjoyed astonishing success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous mystery and suspense writer &#8211; she and her daughter were frequent guests on Imus in the Morning. Led a very fasinating and at times difficult life &#8211; a widow in her 30&#39;s with five children. This is from the Jesuit publication America. Mary Higgins Clark, known as the &quot;queen of suspense&quot; to her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7572,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions\/7572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}