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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. She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five ...
- Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train (1950) is a psychological thriller...
- The Price of Salt
The Price of Salt (later republished under the title Carol)...
- Patricia Highsmith bibliography
Collected works. Mystery Cats III: More Feline Felonies...
- The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller...
- Strangers on a Train
May 2, 2024 · Patricia Highsmith (born January 19, 1921, Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.—died February 4, 1995, Locarno, Switzerland) was an 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.
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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 debate.
Collected works. Mystery Cats III: More Feline Felonies (1995) (Signet Books, ISBN 978-0-451-18293-7) ( anthology includes Patricia Highsmith) 'The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2001) (W. W. Norton & Company, ISBN 0-393-02031-2)
The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. The novel introduced the character of con man Tom Ripley, whom Highsmith wrote about in four subsequent books.
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The Price of Salt (later republished under the title Carol) is a 1952 romance novel by Patricia Highsmith, first published under the pseudonym "Claire Morgan." Highsmith—known as a suspense writer based on her psychological thriller Strangers on a Train —used an alias as she did not want to be tagged as "a lesbian -book writer", [a] and she ...
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Strangers on a Train (1950) is a psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith about two men whose lives become entangled after one of them proposes they "trade" murders. It was adapted as a film in 1951 by director Alfred Hitchcock and again in 1969 by Robert Sparr .
