Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to new York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train , was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.
Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to new York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train , was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later. See less
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Patricia Highsmith book reviews
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Henry James' Ambassadors As Noir
Henry James's famous and difficult 1903 novel, "The Ambassadors" tells the story of Lambert Strether who travels to Europe at the behest of his fiance to persuade her son from a former marriage, Chad ... Read More
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Ripley Under Water
Ripley does it again
by EllenS, Dec 1, 2011
Somehow the sociopathic Ripley get rid of his nemesis, the nosy American who has something on him. Highsmith is great at getting into the mind of a louse and making us sympathize with him. Read the ... Read More
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People Who Knock on the Door
Biased
by T1946, May 31, 2009
I think Ms Highsmith used this book as a vehicle to share her own anti-christian outlook. In every situation and encounter, opportunity is taken to belittle belief in God and to show how stupid it ... Read More
