WRITER

Mary Higgins Clark

1927 - 2020

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Mary Higgins Clark (born Mary Theresa Eleanor Higgins; December 24, 1927 – January 31, 2020) 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 as of 2015, with her debut suspense novel, Where Are the Children?, in its 75th printing. Higgins Clark began writing at an early age. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mary Higgins Clark has received more than 1,490,442 page views. Her biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Mary Higgins Clark is the 1,019th most popular writer (down from 731st in 2019), the 1,181st most popular biography from United States (down from 850th in 2019) and the 116th most popular American Writer.

Mary Higgins Clark is most famous for her suspense novels.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Ghost Ship
2007
Sieh dich nicht um
1998
Nimm dich in acht
1999
Souviens-toi
1994
Mi querida Sunday
Fiction
When ex-president Henry Parker Britland IV's former secretary of state is indicted for the murder of his mistress, Henry and his congresswoman bride, Sunday, must uncover why he is taking the fall for a crime of passion they suspect he did not commit.
1999
Un Extrao Acecha
1996

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mary Higgins Clark ranks 1,019 out of 7,302. Before her are Noah Gordon, William Gibson, Vasily Zhukovsky, Thomas De Quincey, André Bazin, and August Kubizek. After her are Shūsaku Endō, Egill Skallagrímsson, Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Guido Cavalcanti, Persius, and Hrotsvitha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Mary Higgins Clark ranks 53. Before her are George Andrew Olah, Maurice Ronet, Sydney Brenner, Stan Getz, F. Sherwood Rowland, and Leszek Kołakowski. After her are Juan Almeida Bosque, Alan MacDiarmid, Robert Noyce, Enzo Bearzot, John Vane, and Marvin Minsky. Among people deceased in 2020, Mary Higgins Clark ranks 57. Before her are Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Joel Schumacher, Brian Dennehy, George Steiner, and Ken Hensley. After her are Little Richard, Mamadou Tandja, Abdul Halim Khaddam, Radomir Antić, Mario J. Molina, and John Saxon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Higgins Clark ranks 1,181 out of 20,380. Before her are William Gibson (1948), Gene Sharp (1928), Yonatan Netanyahu (1946), Anjelica Huston (1951), George Armitage Miller (1920), and Lisa Kudrow (1963). After her are Leo Fender (1909), Joe Jackson (1928), William Fichtner (1956), Don Siegel (1912), Donna Haraway (1944), and Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mary Higgins Clark ranks 116. Before her are Richard Matheson (1926), William Styron (1925), Jean Webster (1876), Edith Wharton (1862), Noah Gordon (1926), and William Gibson (1948). After her are Marshall Rosenberg (1934), Sam Shepard (1943), Tess Gerritsen (1953), Zelda Fitzgerald (1900), Valerie Solanas (1936), and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840).

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