Updating a Paperback Heroine; Can Mary Higgins Clark Lure Her Faithful to E-Books?
“,”description”:”Mary Higgins Clark, the blockbuster mystery writer who lives in a mansion in Saddle River, N.J., and a Manhattan apartment with commanding views of Central Park, grew up in the Bronx, off Pelham Parkway. Her father owned a bar, called Higgins Bar and Grille, and he died suddenly one Sunday morning while she was at church. ”At the time, my mother had a total of $2,000 and three kids,” Ms. Clark said in a recent interview in her pied-a-terre on Central Park South, an emerald the size of a Chiclet on the third finger of her left hand and an oil portrait of herself in rich pastels on the wall behind her. “,”keywords”:”WAGES AND SALARIES, BOOKS AND LITERATURE, BOOK TRADE, COMPUTERS AND THE INTERNET,CLARK MARY HIGGINS,SIMON & SCHUSTER INC”,”section”:”business”,”sub_section”:null,”section_display”:”Business”,”sub_section_display”:null,”byline”:”By ALEX KUCZYNSKI”,”pubdate”:”May 22, 2000″,”passkey”:null}; function getShareURL() { return encodeURIComponent(articleToolsShareDa
