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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Patricia_HighsmithPatricia Highsmith - Wikipedia

    Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.

  2. www.nytimes.com › 2021/04/19 › t-magazineThe Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith - The New York Times

    Apr 19, 2021 · Who was Patricia Highsmith? Most answers warrant a rebuttal. The writer was a collision of contradictions, a woman for whom every aspect of herself (including being a woman) demanded internal...

  3. www.britannica.com › biography › Patricia-HighsmithPatricia Highsmith | Biography, Books, Movies, Carol ... -...

    Jun 26, 2024 · Patricia Highsmith, American novelist and short-story writer who was best known for psychological thrillers, in which she delved into the nature of guilt, innocence, good, and evil. Her books included Strangers on a Train (1950), The Price of Salt (1952; also published as Carol), and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955).

  4. www.nytimes.com › article › best-patricia-highsmith-booksThe Essential Patricia Highsmith - The New York Times

    Mar 21, 2023 · Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a tangle of contradictions. Photo: Swiss Literary Archives, Bern ...

  5. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › booksThe strange life of Patricia Highsmith, the author behind The...

    Mar 31, 2024 · Patricia Highsmith set the blueprint for the modern psychological thriller. As Andrew Scott takes on the role of her most famous antihero Tom Ripley in a new Netflix series, Katie Rosseinsky...

  6. www.goodreads.com › author › showPatricia Highsmith (Author of The Talented Mr. Ripley) - ...

    Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological crime thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptati...

  7. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2015/11/30Patricia Highsmith’s Forbidden Love | The New Yorker

    Nov 22, 2015 · In December of 1948, Patricia Highsmith was a twenty-seven-year-old aspiring writer with a murderous imagination and an outsized talent for seducing women.

  8. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2021/10/04Patricia Highsmith’s Coming of Age | The New Yorker

    Sep 27, 2021 · Patricia Highsmith, who died in 1995, was the author of more than twenty novels. “Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941-1995” will be published in November.

  9. www.nytimes.com › 2021/03/24 › t-magazineIn ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley,’ a Shape-Shifting Protagonist Who’s...

    Mar 24, 2021 · Patricia Highsmith published the first novel in her series of psychological thrillers in 1955, embedding her own repression, snobbery and sense of chaos into the text.

  10. www.vanityfair.com › hollywood › patricia-highsmith-tom-ripley-biographyPatricia Highsmith Was Almost as Twisted as Tom Ripley

    Apr 3, 2024 · Patricia Highsmith Was Almost as Twisted as Tom Ripley. She never murdered anyone—as far as we know—but the iconic author’s diaries and biographies reveal that the devious Highsmith had a ...