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Mary Higgins Clark

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Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins; December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020)<ref>Great Women Mystery Writers, 2nd Ed. by Elizabeth Blakesley Lindsay, page 40, 2007, Greenwood Press; Template:ISBN</ref> was an American author of suspense novels. Each of her 51 books was a bestseller in the United States and various European countries, and all of her novels remained in print Template:As of, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are the Children?, in its 75th printing.

Higgins Clark began writing at an early age. After several years working as a secretary and copy editor, she spent a year as a stewardess for Pan-American Airlines before leaving to marry and start a family. She supplemented the family's income by writing short stories. After her husband died in 1964, Higgins Clark worked for many years writing four-minute radio scripts until her agent persuaded her to try writing novels. Her debut novel, a fictionalized account of the life of George Washington, did not sell well, and she decided to exploit her love of mystery/suspense novels. Her suspense novels became very popular, and have sold more than 100 million copies in the United States alone.<ref name="simon">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Her former daughter-in-law Mary Jane Clark is also a writer, as was her daughter Carol Higgins Clark.

Early lifeEdit

Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins was born on Christmas Eve 1927 ( some sources mistakenly cite 1929 as the year<ref name="bruns">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>). She was the second child and only daughter of Nora C. (Durkin) and Luke Joseph Higgins.<ref name="Roche2011">Template:Cite book</ref> Her father was an Irish immigrant, and her mother was American-born, also of Irish descent.<ref name="pg16">Mary Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 16–17.</ref> The United States census gives her age in April 1940 as 12, which indicates her year of birth is 1927, as that was her age at her last birthday, the question asked by census enumerators.<ref name="1940 US census">1940 United States census extract:
Name: Mary Higgins
Age: 12
Estimated birth year: abt 1928
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: New York
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter
Home in 1940: New York, Bronx, New York
Map of Home in 1940: View Map
Street: Tenbroeck Avenue
House Number: 1913
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Bronx, New York
Residence in 1935: Same House
Sheet Number: 9B
Attended School or College: Yes
Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 6th grade
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Nora Higgins 52
Joseph Higgins 13
Mary Higgins 12
John Higgins 8
Herbert Katz 21
Source Citation: Year: 1940; Census Place: New York, Bronx, New York; Roll: T627_2481; Page: 9B; Enumeration District: 3-819. Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls.</ref>

She was born about a year and a half after the birth of her older brother, Joseph. Her younger brother John, followed three years later.<ref name="pg1">Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 1.</ref> Even as a small child, she was interested in writing; she composed her first poem at age seven and often crafted short plays for her friends to enact.<ref name="levitsky" >{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She began keeping a journal when she was seven years old, noting in her first entry, "Nothing much happened today."<ref name="Clark, p. 13">Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 13.</ref>

The family lived off the earnings from their Irish pub and were fairly well-off, owning a home in the Bronx and a summer cottage on Long Island Sound.<ref name="pg2">Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 2.</ref><ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 18.</ref> Although the Great Depression began when Higgins Clark was still a baby, her family was initially not affected and even insisted on feeding the men who knocked on their door looking for work.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 3.</ref> By the time Higgins Clark was ten, however, the family began to experience financial trouble, as many of their customers were unable to pay the bar tabs they had run up.<ref name="Clark, p. 13"/> Higgins Clark's father was forced to lay off several employees and work longer hours, spending no more than a few hours at home each day. The family was thrown into further turmoil in 1939, when young Mary returned home from an early Mass to discover that her father had died in his sleep.<ref name="pg16"/>

Nora Higgins, now a widow with three young children to support, soon discovered that few employers were willing to hire a 52-year-old woman who had not held a job in over fourteen years.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 20.</ref> To pay the bills, Higgins Clark was forced to move out of her bedroom so that her mother could rent it out to paying boarders.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 24.</ref> Six months after their father's death, Higgins Clark's older brother cut his foot on a piece of metal and contracted severe osteomyelitis. Higgins Clark and her mother prayed constantly for him, and their neighbors came en masse to give blood for the many transfusions the young boy needed. Despite the dire predictions of the doctors, Joseph Higgins survived. Higgins Clark credited his recovery to the power of their prayers.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 32.</ref>

When Higgins Clark graduated from Saint Francis Xavier Grammar School, she received a scholarship to continue her education at the Villa Maria Academy, a school run by the nuns of the Congregation de Notre Dame de Montreal.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 2, 37.</ref> There, the principal and other teachers encouraged Higgins Clark to develop her writing, although they were somewhat less than pleased when she began spending her class time writing stories instead of paying attention to the lesson.<ref name="levitsky"/> At sixteen, Higgins Clark made her first attempt at publishing her work, sending an entry to True Confessions, which was rejected.<ref name="welch">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

To help pay the bills, she worked as a switchboard operator at the Shelton Hotel, where she often listened in to the residents' conversations. In her memoir she recalls spending much time eavesdropping on Tennessee Williams but complained that he never said anything interesting. On her days off, Higgins Clark would window shop, mentally choosing the clothes she would wear when she finally became a famous writer.<ref name="pg40">Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 40–42.</ref>

Despite Higgins Clark's contribution to the family finances, the money her mother earned babysitting<ref name="qa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was not enough, and the family lost their house and moved into a small three-room apartment. When Joseph graduated from high school in 1944, he immediately enlisted in the Navy, both to serve his country during war and to help his mother pay her bills. Six months after his enlistment he contracted spinal meningitis and died.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 43–45.</ref> Although the family mourned Joseph's death deeply, as his dependent, Nora was guaranteed a life pension and no longer needed her daughter's help to pay the bills.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 84.</ref>

Early careerEdit

Soon after Joseph died, Higgins Clark graduated from high school and attended Wood Secretarial School on a partial scholarship. After completing her coursework the following year, she accepted a job as the secretary to the head of the creative department in the internal advertising division at Remington Rand.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 47–48.</ref> She soon enrolled in evening classes to learn more about advertising and promotion. Her growing skills, as well as her natural beauty, were noticed by her boss and others in the company, and her job was expanded to include writing catalog copy (alongside future novelist Joseph Heller) and to model for the company brochures with a then unknown Grace Kelly.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 48–49, 53.</ref>

Although she enjoyed her job, Higgins Clark's imagination was sparked by an acquaintance's casual comment, "God, it was beastly hot in Calcutta."<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 53.</ref> Inspired to become a flight attendant like her acquaintance, Higgins Clark underwent rigorous interviews to earn a position as a flight attendant (then known as stewardess) for Pan American Airlines, making five dollars less a week than in her secretarial job.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 57.</ref> Her supervisor at Remington Rand hosted a goodbye dinner for her, and Higgins Clark invited her neighbor, Warren Clark, whom she had admired for years, to be her date. By the end of the evening Warren Clark had informed her that he thought she should work as a stewardess for a year, and then they should be married the following Christmas. Higgins Clark accepted the somewhat unorthodox proposal.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 60–62.</ref>

For most of 1949, she worked the Pan Am international flights, traveling through Europe, Africa, and Asia. One of her flights became the last flight allowed into Czechoslovakia before the Iron Curtain fell.<ref name="bruns"/> On another of her flights, Higgins Clark escorted a four-year-old orphan down the steps of the airplane into the waiting arms of her adoptive mother, a scene that was heavily televised.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 65.</ref>

At the end of her year of flying, on December 26, 1949, Higgins Clark happily gave up her career to marry Warren Clark.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 72.</ref> To occupy herself, she began taking writing courses at NYU<ref name="welch"/> and, with some of her classmates, formed a writing workshop in which the members would critique each other's works-in-progress. The workshop, which persisted for almost forty years, met weekly. At each meeting two members would have twenty minutes each to present their latest work. The other members would then have three minutes each to offer constructive criticism.<ref name="white">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

One of her professors at NYU told the class they should develop plot ideas by reading newspapers and asking themselves prompts such as, "Suppose...?" and "What if...?" She has said that she still gets many of her ideas by utilizing said prompts, along with "Why?".<ref name="pg86">Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 86.</ref> For her first NYU writing assignment she used this method to expand her own experiences into a short story called "Stowaway" about a stewardess who finds a stowaway from Czechoslovakia on her plane.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 89.</ref> Although her professor offered high praise for the story, Higgins Clark was continually frustrated in her attempts to find a publisher. Finally, in 1956, after six years and forty rejections, Extension Magazine agreed to purchase the story for $100.<ref name="bruns"/>

While those six years were devoid of professional milestones, on a personal level Higgins Clark and her husband were very busy. Their first child, Marilyn, was born nine months after their wedding, with Warren Jr. arriving thirteen months later. A third child, David, was born two years after his brother. Two months after Higgins Clark's short story sold, the fourth baby made her appearance and was promptly named Carol, after the heroine in her mother's story.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 86, 95, 97, 106.</ref> After selling that first short story, Higgins Clark began regularly finding homes for her works. Through the writer's workshop she met an agent, Patricia Schartle Myrer, who represented Higgins Clark for twenty years until her retirement. They became such good friends that Higgins Clark named her fifth and last child for her.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 107.</ref> While Warren worked and Higgins Clark wrote, they encouraged their children to find ways to earn money as well, with all five children eventually taking professional acting and modeling jobs. Young Patty served as a Gerber Baby, while David was featured in a national United Way ad. Higgins Clark herself filmed a television commercial for Fab laundry detergent. The commercial, which aired during the I Love Lucy show, earned her enough money that she and Warren were able to take a trip to Hawaii.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 117, 119–122.</ref>

In 1959, Warren Clark was diagnosed with severe angina, and, although he curtailed his activities on his doctor's order, he suffered Template:Nowrap within the next five years, each time returning from the hospital in poorer health. After the last heart attack in 1964, they felt that Warren would be unable to work again, so Higgins Clark called a friend who wrote scripts for radio shows to see if there were any job openings. The day that she accepted a job writing the radio segment "Portrait of a Patriot," Warren suffered a fatal heart attack. His mother, who was visiting at the time, collapsed dead at his bedside upon discovering that he had died. In one night, Higgins Clark lost both her husband and her mother-in-law.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 109–111, 114–115.</ref>

Aspire to the HeavensEdit

Higgins Clark's initial contract to be a radio scriptwriter obligated her to write 65 four-minute programs for the "Portrait of a Patriot" series. Her work was good enough that she was soon asked to write two other radio series. This experience of fitting an entire sketch into four minutes taught Higgins Clark how to write cleanly and succinctly, traits that are incredibly important to a suspense novel, which must advance the plot with every paragraph.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 125, 150–53.</ref> Despite the security offered by her new job, money was tight in the beginning as she strove to raise five children aged five to thirteen alone. For their first Christmas without Warren, Higgins Clark's only gifts to her children were personalized poems describing the things she wished she could have purchased for them.<ref name="brady">Template:Cite news</ref>

By the late 1960s, the short story market had collapsed. The Saturday Evening Post, which in 1960 named Higgins Clark's short story "Beauty Contest at Buckingham" one of their ten best of the year, was in serious financial straits and had decided to stop publishing fiction, and many of the popular women's magazines were also dropping or cutting back on fiction, focusing on self-help articles instead.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 122, 125, 156.</ref> Because her short stories were no longer able to find a publisher, Higgins Clark's agent suggested that she try writing a full-length novel.<ref name="welch"/> Using her research and experience with the Portraits of a Patriot series, Higgins Clark spent the next three years writing a fictionalized account of the relationship between George and Martha Washington, Aspire to the Heavens. It is about George Washington and the love for his house.<ref name="qa"/> Although it was sold for only a small advance, its acceptance gave Higgins Clark confidence that she could indeed finish a full-length book and find a publisher.<ref name="levitsky"/> The novel "was remaindered as it came off the press,"<ref name="bruns"/> and, to make matters worse, four months after the publication of the novel, Mary's mother, Nora, died.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 181.</ref>

To ensure that her children would not have to struggle financially, Higgins Clark was determined that they should have good educations. To provide a good example she entered Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 1971, graduating summa cum laude in 1979, with a BA in philosophy.<ref name="bruns"/> Her children followed her example. The two eldest, Marilyn and Warren, have become judges, and Patty works at the Mercantile Exchange in New York City. David is the president and CEO of Talk Marketing Enterprises, Inc, and Carol has authored many popular suspense novels.<ref name="qa"/>

During this time Higgins Clark became increasingly frustrated with her employer, and, although two of her children were partially dependent on her for their college tuition, she quit her job and joined two of her former colleagues in forming their own company to write and market radio scripts. To scrape up the $5000 she needed to start the business, Higgins Clark was forced to pawn her engagement ring, and, for the eight months it took the company to become profitable, she did not receive a salary, further straining the family finances.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 188.</ref>

Higgins Clark continued writing even during these hard times.

Suspense genreEdit

Encouraged by her agent to try writing another book, Higgins Clark returned to the suspense stories that she loved as a child, which had provided her first success as a short story writer. While she was in the midst of writing the story, her younger brother Johnny died, leaving her the sole surviving member of her family. To temporarily forget her heartache, Higgins Clark threw herself into her writing, and soon finished the novel.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, p. 177, 192–193.</ref> Very quickly after the novel, Where are the Children? was completed, Simon & Schuster agreed to purchase it for the relatively small sum of $3000. Three months later, in July 1974, Higgins Clark received word that the paperback rights for the novel had sold for one hundred thousand dollars. For the first time in many years, she had no immediate financial worries.<ref>Higgins Clark, Kitchen Privileges, pp. 195–196.</ref> Where Are the Children? became a bestseller and was favorably reviewed.<ref name="bruns"/> Two years after its publication Higgins Clark sold her second suspense novel for $1.5 million.<ref name="brady"/>

Since 2010, Paris-based La Sabotière have been producing a series of her crime novels as television films. Mary Higgins Clark crime novel anthology series was placed into development in October 2019 under a partnership between Montreal-based Reel One Entertainment, U.S. producer Element 8 Entertainment and La Sabotière. The first season is slated to be based on I’ll Be Seeing You and, attached as writer and executive producer is Ilene Rosenzweig.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Other writingsEdit

Higgins Clark's debut novel about George Washington, Aspire to the Heavens was retitled Mount Vernon Love Story and rereleased in 2002, the same year as her autobiography, Kitchen Privileges, which relied heavily on the journals she kept all of her life.<ref name="simon"/><ref name="qa"/> In 2006, she announced that she would be fulfilling one of her dreams by publishing her first children's book. Ghost Ship was published by Simon & Schuster, who have published her suspense novels.<ref name="welch"/><ref name="kids">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She wrote several Christmas-themed mystery novels with her daughter, Carol. Although popular with readers, some critics have complained that the books are of lesser quality because the tone is much lighter than her solo output. Template:Citation needed

Later lifeEdit

Higgins Clark dated throughout her widowhood. She described her second marriage (1978–1986) to Raymond Ploetz as "disastrous" and had it annulled.<ref name="brady"/><ref name="people">Template:Cite journal</ref>

In 1996, she married John J. Conheeney after they were introduced by her daughter, Patty.<ref name="white"/> Conheeney died at age 89 on October 8, 2018.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was the retired CEO of Merrill Lynch Futures.<ref name="bruns"/> The couple lived in Saddle River, New Jersey. (Higgins Clark first moved to New Jersey in 1956 when she and her first husband bought a home in Washington Township, Bergen County, New Jersey.)<ref>Horner, Shirley. "New Jersey Q & A: Mary Higgins Clark; From a Life in New Jersey, Best-Selling Mysteries", The New York Times, October 18, 1992; accessed December 22, 2013. "Ms. Clark first moved to New Jersey -- to Washington Township -- in 1956."</ref><ref>Geiger, Mia. "Suspense queen sailing two ships", The Denver Post, April 6, 2007. Accessed May 14, 2007. "It seemed only natural for Higgins Clark to set the story on Cape Cod, a place that feels magical to the Saddle River, N.J., resident."</ref><ref name="bruns"/>

In 1981, Higgins Clark happened to be in Washington, D.C., the day President Ronald Reagan was shot. Because she had a press pass she was able to join the media waiting to hear the President's prognosis. When the doctor finally arrived to start the press conference, Higgins Clark was one of the few people chosen to ask a question.<ref name="levitsky"/>

In 2011, she served as the Grand Marshal of the New York City St. Patrick's Day Parade.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In addition to her residence in Saddle River, Higgins Clark owned homes in Manhattan, Dennis, Massachusetts, and Naples, Florida. She died in Naples on January 31, 2020, at the age of 92.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

SuccessEdit

Popular receptionEdit

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Higgins Clark signing books at BookExpo America in 2018

Higgins Clark had over 50 novels published, with millions of copies sold throughout the United States.

In 2001, the hardcover edition of Higgins Clark's On the Street Where You Live was Number One on the New York Times Hardcover Bestseller list at the same time that the paperback version of her novel Template:Ill reached Number One on the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list.<ref name="bruns2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Her books have been bestsellers in France,<ref name="white"/> and have earned her the distinction of being named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2000. She has been honored in France with the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière (1980) and the Deauville Film Festival Literary Award (1999).<ref name="hwa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She was awarded the AIHS Gold Medal from the American Irish Historical Society, which is awarded to an Irish-American or Irish-national of significant accomplishment.<ref>AIHS Gold Medal Awardees</ref>

Many of the books deal with crimes involving children or with telepathy.<ref name="pwblue">Template:Cite magazineTemplate:Dead link</ref>

While Higgins Clark was aware that many people claiming to be psychics behave fraudulently, she believed that she had met people with genuine ESP powers. Nora Higgins, on looking at a photo of her eighteen-year-old son in his brand new Navy dress blues told Mary that "He has death in his eyes", and the young man died shortly after. A psychic that Higgins Clark visited just as her second novel, Where Are the Children, was being published in paperback told her that she would become very famous and make a great deal of money. Although at the time she laughed off the prediction, the following week her novel reached the bestseller lists and she sold the movie rights shortly after, truly launching her career.<ref name="white"/>

Critical receptionEdit

Higgins Clark won numerous awards for her writing. In addition to those previously referenced, she won the Horatio Alger Award (1997) and the Passionists'Template:Clarify Ethics in Literature Award (2002), as well as the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Spirit of Achievement Award (1994) and the National Arts Club's Gold Medal in Education (1994). She was awarded eighteen honorary doctorates, including one from her alma mater, Fordham University. Her success was also recognized by groups representing her heritage. The American Irish Historical Society granted her the Gold Medal of Honor in 1993, and in 2001 she won the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. She was named a Bronx Legend (1999).<ref name="hwa"/>

Mary Higgins Clark served as the chairman of the International Crime Congress in 1988 and was the 1987 president of the Mystery Writers of America. For many years she served on the board of directors of the Mystery Writers of America. Simon & Schuster, which have published all of Higgins Clark's novels and in the late 1990s signed her to a $64-million, four-book contract,<ref name="white"/> have funded the Mary Higgins Clark Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America to authors of suspense fiction.<ref name="simon"/><ref name="mwa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The announcement that an award would be given in her honor was made at the 55th Annual Edgar Allan Poe Awards, where Higgins Clark was inducted as a Grand Master.<ref name="mwa"/>

Higgins Clark was made a Dame of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, and was honored as a Dame of Malta and a Dame of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre.<ref name="white"/> The Franciscan Friars gave her a Graymoor Award (1999) and she was awarded a Christopher Life Achievement Award. She served as a board member for the Catholic Communal Fund and as a member of the board of governors at Hackensack Hospital.<ref name="simoncanada">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Higgins Clark was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame in March 2011.<ref name=MHC>Harty, Patricia. "The Bestselling Author is Proud to Call Herself An Irish Girl From the Bronx", Irish America, March 10, 2011; accessed March 22, 2011. "The oldest living resident of New York died recently at age 111 and in a New York Times article only months earlier, she told the reporter that she had kept her mind alert by reading Agatha Christie and Mary Higgins Clark."</ref>

BibliographyEdit

FictionEdit

Standalone Stories

Alvirah and Willy series
Focuses on Alvirah Meehan, a lottery winner, and her husband Willy, a plumber, as they solve many crimes and murders.

  • 1987 Weep No More, My Lady<ref name=":1" />
  • 1992 Plumbing For Willy (short story, included in The Lottery Winner)
  • 1994 The Lottery Winner and Other Stories<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 1998 All Through the Night<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 2000 Deck the Halls<ref name="Clark"/> (crossover with Carol's main protagonist Reagan Reilly)
  • 2004 The Christmas Thief And Other Stories<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> (crossover with Carol's main protagonist Reagan Reilly)
  • 2006 Santa Cruise: A Holiday Mystery at Sea<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> (crossover with Carol's main protagonist Reagan Reilly)
  • 2008 Dashing Through the Snow<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> (crossover with Carol's main protagonist Reagan Reilly)

Under Suspicion series
Focuses on Laurie Moran, producer on the television series "Under Suspicion", a documentary program which investigates unsolved cold cases.

Non-fictionEdit

  • 2001 Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • 2002 Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster Audiocassette Audiobook) (4 audiocassettes, approximately 5 hours running time) (Unabridged) Template:ISBN. Read by the author.

AdaptationsEdit

Theatrical film adaptationsEdit

Selected television adaptationsEdit

  • 1983: The Cradle Will Fall
  • 1987: Stillwatch
  • 1992: Double Vision
  • 1992: Template:Ill
  • 1992: A Cry in the Night
  • 1992: Weep No More My Lady
  • 1995: Remember Me
  • 1997: Let Me Call You Sweetheart
  • 1997: While My Pretty One Sleeps
  • 1998: Moonlight Becomes You
  • 2001: Loves Music, Loves to Dance
  • 2002: You Belong to Me
  • 2002: Pretend You Don't See Her
  • 2002: Haven't We Met Before?
  • 2002: Lucky Day
  • 2002: Template:Ill
  • 2002: We'll Meet Again
  • 2002: He Sees You When You're Sleeping
  • 2003: A Crime of Passion
  • 2003: Before I say Goodbye
  • 2004: I'll Be Seeing You
  • 2004: Try to Remember
  • 2004: The Cradle Will Fall
  • 2004: Try to Remember
  • 2011: Deck the Halls
  • 2013: The Mystery Cruise
  • 2013: Toi que j'aimais tant (Daddy's Little Girl<ref name=":5" />)
  • 2014: My Gal Sunday
  • 2014: Où es-tu maintenant (Where Are You Now?)
  • 2014: Deux petites filles en bleu (Two Little Girls in Blue<ref name=":7" />)
  • 2015: Souviens-toi (Remember Me<ref name=":3" /> )
  • 2015: La clinique du docteur H (The Cradle Will Fall<ref name=":2" />)
  • 2015: Les années perdues (The Lost Years<ref name=":8" />)
  • 2018: Rien ne vaut la douceur du foyer (No Place like Home<ref name=":6" />)
  • 2018: Ce que vivent les roses (Let Me Call You Sweetheart<ref name=":4" />)

ReferencesEdit

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Further readingEdit

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