Mary Higgins Clark

		Mary Higgins Clark
		Born and raised in New York, Mary Higgins Clark is of Irish descent. The Irish are, by nature, storytellers, says Clark, who considers her Irish heritage an important influence on her writing. Mary's father died when she was ten. Her mother struggled to bring up Mary and her two brothers. After graduating from high school, Mary went to secretarial school, so she could get a job and help her mother with the family finances. After working for three years in an advertising agency, travel fever seized her. For the year 1949, she was a stewardess on Pan American Airlines' international flights, to see the world. My run was Europe, Africa and Asia, Mary recalls. I was in a revolution in Syria and on the last flight into Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain went down. I flew for a year and then got married. She married a neighbor, Warren Clark. Nine years . . . FULL BIO PAGE

Speech Topics		Celebrity, Inspiration, Life Balance, Motivation, Overcoming Adversity, Women's Issues

Travels From		New York

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Sample Talks		Celebrity, Inspiration, Life Balance, Motivation, Overcoming Adversity, Women's Issues

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