Patricia Highsmith
Novelist, Author
1921 – 1995
Who was Patricia Highsmith?
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer, most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. In addition to her acclaimed series about murderer Tom Ripley, she wrote many short stories, often macabre, satirical or tinged with black humor. Although she wrote specifically in the genre of crime fiction, her books have been lauded by various writers and critics as being artistic and thoughtful enough to rival mainstream literature. Michael Dirda observed, "Europeans honored her as a psychological novelist, part of an existentialist tradition represented by her own favorite writers, in particular Dostoevsky, Conrad, Kafka, Gide, and Camus."
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- Born
- Jan 19, 1921
Fort Worth - Also known as
- Mary Patricia Plangman
- Highsmith, Patricia
- Claire Morgan
- Parents
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Barnard College
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Fort Worth
- Died
- Feb 4, 1995
Locarno
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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