Brooklyn N.Y. – Dr. Regina S. Peruggi, the President of Kingsborough Community College this week announced the launching of a best-selling women’s author series to be offered to the entire Brooklyn Community FREE of charge during Spring 2005. The announcement is part of Kingsborough’s continuing efforts to offer exciting educational and topical programs to the people of Brooklyn.

The first authors to appear as part of the series are popular suspense writers Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter Carol Higgins Clark who are scheduled to kick- off The Kingsborough Best-Selling Author Series on March 3rd 2005. The author series will take place in the MAC Playhouse at the college’s Marine Academic Center located alongside the Atlantic Ocean. The authors will discuss their work and their experience collaborating as a mother/daughter team on their literary successes and experiences.

Mary Higgins Clark known for such works as Where Are the Children? The Cradle Will Fall, Sight Unseen and Before I Say Goodbye, has been dubbed “The Queen of Suspense.” Her work has been translated into several languages and she is considered one of the top mystery writers in the world. Her name is synonymous with the art of writing suspense literature.

Carol Higgins Clark rose to literary stardom with the very funny Regan Reilly mystery series. The author, who is also an actress, has written Snagged, Iced, Twanged, Jinxed and Burned. While her famous mother holds the breath of her readers, Carol Higgins Clark tickles their funny bone with her witty satire, earning her the sobriquet “The Princess of Pratfall.”

The series continues on April 6th with the gifted writer – Susan Isaacs, author of Compromising Positions, Close Relations, Magic Hour and Almost Paradise.

Susan Isaacs, a literacy advocate, is a recipient of the Writers for Writers Award, as well as the John Steinbeck Award. A prolific writer of mysteries, romance and political parodies, she also reviews books for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post and New York Newsday.

The authors Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin round out the list of authors scheduled for the series at Kingsborough, on May 17th. The two writers co-wrote the popular series – The Nanny Diaries and recently are the writers of Citizen Girl. Film rights to The Nanny Diaries have been bought by Miramax Films.

The Lecture Series begins at 7:00 pm on March 3rd, April 6th and May 17th, in The MAC Playhouse at Kingsborough Community College. The college is located at 2001 Oriental Boulevard, Brooklyn, New York. Admission to each event is FREE. For more information and ticket reservations: Call Ms. Susan Dowd at (718) 368-5051