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3 days ago · 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.
Apr 10, 2024 · Where to start with: Patricia Highsmith. Thanks to Netflix’s moody adaptation, Ripley, there’s more awareness of Highsmith’s skills as an expert writer of guilt, ambivalence and moral ...
Mar 21, 2023 · Published March 8, 2023 Updated March 21, 2023. Though I have been a reader of crime fiction all of my adult life, I avoided the work of Patricia Highsmith (1921-95) until my early 30s. Bleak...
Jan 9, 2021 · Twisted brilliance: Patricia Highsmith at 100. Forbidden desires, strange obsessions and a singular talent for suspense... Carmen Maria Machado on the dark allure of the writer behind Ripley....
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.
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 ...
Jan 20, 2021 · Jan 20th 2021. P ATRICIA HIGHSMITH had a thing for snails. She admired their self-sufficiency and found it “relaxing” to watch them copulate, delighted by the impossibility of distinguishing ...
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