[4] After leaving the circus, she worked as a magazine and television writer and started with MGM Studios in Hollywood as director of special promotions.

[5] Encouraged by an MGM studio photographer, she moved to New York City to begin a career as a Conover Model and as a successful Broadway and television actress.

As an assistant vice president of Macmillan, she helped launch two of the company's best sellers, Watership Down and Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

[5] In 1978 she started her own literary agency, Connie Clausen & Associates, which had a series of best sellers, including the beauty books by the photographer Francesco Scavullo,[6] the Pulitzer Prize-winning Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith,[2] "Eat to Win," "The Rules," and many others.

Clausen was portrayed by Swoosie Kurtz in the ITV film production of An Englishman in New York, a sequel to The Naked Civil Servant.