Maggie Clark’s life began in Kenansville, NC, at a time when the population was a booming five hundred people, give or take a few. Her parents owned the Duplin Times weekly newspaper, where she and her dog Happy hung out. After graduating from Meredith College in Raleigh, NC, she married and went to work as a secretary. She wrote about funny incidents that happened at work.

In Green Lake, Wisconsin, Maggie discovered that she could make people laugh whenever she put pencil to paper. While writing a personal column for a weekly newspaper, she gained a broad audience who looked forward to reading whatever she came up with each week. Even after she left the newspaper, she continued writing stories, illustrating them with the little mouse named Hugh she had created in Wisconsin. Hugh always has something fresh to say and is not averse to creating a little chaos. Some folks think Hugh is Maggie's alter ego. Maggie thinks they might be right.

Maggie is also a fine art artist working in pen and ink and various art media.