By writing about “nice people whose lives are in danger,” she became one of the most successful crime writers of all time.
In addition to her novels, Ms. Higgins Clark wrote short stories, children’s books and a memoir, “,” that recounted a life marked by hardship, including the loss at a young age of her father and the deaths of two brothers. Like many of her fictional heroines, she overcame adversity with plucky self-reliance.
Many of her plotlines were inspired by crimes recounted in the news. Once, she told The Washington Post, she heard a broadcast in Chicago about a man who had hidden in a couple’s attic for a month. When he eventually ambushed the woman, he repeated to her the conversations he overheard in the bedroom she shared with her husband.“Imagine the terror of that — a man who comes in and out of the attic and eavesdrops,” she said. “Such a marvelous idea!”Ms.
As a teenager, she worked as a telephone operator at a hotel where she said she listened in on the conversations of a then-unknown playwright, Tennessee Williams. She went to secretarial school before joining a friend as a stewardess with Pan American World Airways. After a year of flights to Europe, Africa and Asia, she came home and was married in 1949 to Warren Clark, a longtime acquaintance.
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