MARY HIGGINS CLARK - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 226378

MARY HIGGINS CLARK
Black and white publicity photograph of Higgins Clark promoting her book MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU
Photograph signed: "Best Wishes/Mary Higgins Clark". B/w, 5x7 overall, image 4½x4¾ (one surface). Captioned at lower margin: "Mary Higgins Clark, author of/MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU/Published by Simon & Schuster/Photo Credit: Bernard Vidal". Publicity photograph for the 1996 publication of the 13th full-length novel by "America's Queen of Suspense". Mary Higgins Clark (1927-2020) began her career in the advertising division of Remington-Rand writing catalog copy and modeling for the company brochures. Then, inspired to see the world, she worked as a stewardess for PanAm international, traveling through Europe, Africa and Asia. In 1949 she was on the last flight allowed into Czechoslovakia before the fall of the Iron Curtain. After a year of flying, she married Warren Clark and went back to school to write. She sold her first magazine short story in 1956 and continued until the late 1960s.  In 1975 her first suspense novel, Where Are the Children? was published, with the paperback rights netting her $100,000. Since then she has written some forty plus novels - 24 international best sellers. To highlighting her career in the 1990s, she signed a $64 million 4 book contract. At the 55th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Awards, Clark was inducted as a Grand Master. A devout Catholic, she was made a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by the Pope and has been awarded the Graymoor Award (1999) by the Franciscan Friars.  Minor surface scratch at upper background. Fine condition.