"Bronx, (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs." . . . . "Playaways." . . "Clark, Mary Higgins Childhood and youth." . . "Bronx (New York, N.Y.) Biography." . . "Sound recording." . . "Playaways Sound recordings." . . "Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm)" . . "biography." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Sound recordings"@en . . . "Mary Higgins Clark recounts her early life growing up in New York during the Great Depression; her family's struggle to make ends meet; her days as a scholarship student in an academy for girls; the death of a brother during World War II; and her marriage to Warren Clark, whose untimely death prompted her to begin a career as a writer.--" . . . . . . "Presents a memoir about the author's childhood in the Bronx during the \"great depression\" and her life as a writer."@en . . . . . . . "Growing up in the Bronx, Mary Higgins Clark knew she wanted to be a writer. While Growing up in the depression, her father dies and her mother opens up the house for boarders and places a discreet sign next to the front door that reads, \"Furnished Rooms, Kitches Privileges.\" The family struggles to make ends meet, through lifes hard lessons she begins writing stories at the kitchen table--all these experiences figure into Kitchen Privileges." . . . "Talking books"@en . . "Kitchen privileges"@en . "Kitchen privileges" . . . . . . . . . . "Biography"@en . "Biography" . "Mary Higgins Clark's memoir is a charming and bittersweet account of a childhood spent growing up in the Bronx during the Depression."@en . "International best-selling author of suspense Mary Higgins Clark delivers a poignant memoir about her childhood in the Bronx and how the Depression affected her family."@en . "In a memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, the author recalls her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming house, bringing in tenants who would change their lives."@en . "In a memoir of growing up in the Bronx during the Depression, the author recalls her father's death in 1939, her family's financial woes, and her mother's creation of a rooming house, bringing in tenants who would change their lives." . "Downloadable audio books"@en . . . "\"As Mary reveals what experiences helped shape her novels, she shares vivid memories of her family, the pain of losing her father and brother, and the joy of marrying the man she secretly loved for years. She also considers the importance writing has had on her life: when her husband died, writing became not only a passion, but a way of survival\"--Container." . . . . . "Kitchen privileges a memoir"@en . "Kitchen privileges a memoir" . . . . . "Mary Higgins Clark recounts her early life growing up in New York during the Great Depression; her family's struggle to make ends meet; her days as a scholarship student in an academy for girls; the death of a brother during World War II; and her marriage to Warren Clark, whose untimely death prompted her to begin a career as a writer."@en . . . . . . "Kitchen privileges memoirs of a Bronx girlhood"@en . . . . "A memoir"@en . "Kitchen privileges: [sound recording (unabridged audiobook)]; a memoir" . "Kitchen privileges (sound recording): a memoir" . "Kitchen Privileges a Memoir"@en . . . . . . . . "Audiobooks"@en . "Kitchen priveleges : a memoir"@en . . . "Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Biography." . . "Bronx (New York, N.Y.)" . . "Depressions -- 1929." . . "1900 - 1999" . . "American novelists Biography." . . "LITERARY CRITICISM American General." . .