Mary Higgins Clark is known as the “queen of suspense.”
At 90, she’s written 37 best-selling suspense novels and sold over 100 million copies of her books in the U.S. alone. Her latest work, “I’ve Got My Eyes on You,” was released at the end of April and is already on The New York Times Bestsellers list.
In 2000 she was reportedly given an advance of $64 million for five books, making her, at the time, the highest-paid female author in the world. But she still remembers how she spent her first big paycheck.
“That was when I decided I could afford to go to school,” she tells CNBC Make It, “and I started at Fordham University at Lincoln Center. I graduated at age 50.”
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