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“The Case of the Best-Selling Author”

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“‘I’ll always be writing. But the day I stop publishing is the day I stop telling a good story.’”



Today’s Wall Street Journal features a great profile of Mary Higgins Clark – the official Queen of Suspense. Her new mystery, I’ll Walk Alone: A Novel will publish April 5, 2011 (9781439180969, CD: 9781442337534). Here are few things you learn about Mary:

  • She was recently the grand marshal for the NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade
  • Her first Christmas-themed novel published in 1995 and sold 3.2 million copies
  • Her books have spent a collective 355 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.
  • She worked as a Pan Am flight attendant before she started writing.
  • I’ll Walk Alone is her 43rd novel.



To read the full article, click here.

April 5 is also the publication date of daughter and fellow writer, Carol Higgins Clark’s Mobbed (Scribner, 9781439170281; CD: 9781442337572). Read an excerpt here.









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