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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 ...

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

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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...

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

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   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.

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

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   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.

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

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   Apr 3, 2024 · She never murdered anyone—as far as we know—but the iconic author’s diaries and biographies reveal that the devious Highsmith had a lot in common with her most infamous character.

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

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   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...

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

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   Sep 27, 2021 · Patricia Highsmith, who published twenty-two novels, including “Deep Water” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” died in 1995, at the age of seventy-four. By the time of her death, she had ...

8. www.npr.org › 2022/08/18 › 1115519870Untangling the contradictions of crime novelist Patricia...

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   Aug 18, 2022 · Patricia Highsmith in 1942, age 21. In Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 movie Strangers on a Train, a man strikes up a conversation with a seatmate, leading to an indecent proposal. In Anthony...

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

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   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.

10. www.theguardian.com › books › 2021News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's US edition | The...

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    Jan 17, 2021 · We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.