Mary Higgins Clark — American Author born on December 24, 1927,

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins Clark Conheeney, known professionally as Mary Higgins Clark, is an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books has been a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remained in print as of 2015, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are The Children, in its seventy-fifth printing... (wikipedia)

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.
Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.