my family

• “In fact, until I became an operative for the Republican Party in the early 1990s, my family had managed to steer clear of that dirty business ever since my great-great-grandfather, Darwin Rush James, retired from Congress in 1887.”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Rig an Election

• “I parade my family of perfect belye—the eight trench warriors—in front of her face, and she squeezes out a smile because there is no one in the entire world, not even my older sister, who could ignore their splendor.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Mountain of Crumbs

• “As I entered kindergarten, my dad took a job at the UCLA University Elementary School, and my family moved to Los Angeles, California.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Time Paradox

• “Men in my family have been Blight County sheriffs for the last hundred years.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Huckleberry Murders

• “He came from a tiny village in the most eastern part of European Russia, but he never spoke of his parents and no one in my family even knew if he had any siblings.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Mountain of Crumbs

• “In doing so, I surrendered my place as head of my family and so entrusted that responsibility to my oldest son, Maltim.”

  Simon & Schuster: Creative Couplings

• “A HEAP OF GRATITUDE goes to my family and friends, for loving and supporting me unconditionally, sometimes against their better interests.”

  Simon & Schuster: Venomous

• “Thankfully my family no longer worries about where our next meal is coming from, but that was e °°the case for many years during my youth.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Courage To Be Christian

• “Yeah, yeah, my dad said, but this suitor had offered to pay off all the debts on Margarine Castle and to restore my family to its former glory.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bubble in the Bathtub

• “My mother, Mary Higgins Clark, my aunt Irene Clark, and the rest of my family and friends who saw me through the storm.”

  Simon & Schuster: WRECKED

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