Best-selling author formed enduring bond with worldwide readership

Mary Higgins Clark, known as the "queen of suspense" to her millions of readers throughout the world, died of natural causes in Naples, Florida, Jan. 31. She was 92.
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Writer’s Southern roots inspire ‘radical faith’ element to her fiction

A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Sayers' first five novels touch on the sense of separateness and isolation of Catholic communities in the heavily Protestant U.S. South.
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Author Alice McDermott uses faith to give language, lore to characters

Catholic journal of opinion Commonweal describes writer and Johns Hopkins professor Alice McDermott as one of America's greatest living novelists
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