Patricia Highsmith was an American author who specialized in psychological thrillers and dark character studies. She ...

In the case of Patricia Highsmith, who died in 1995, credit Anthony Minghella's recent film version of The Talented Mr. Ripley, based on the first of five novels she wrote about the ingratiating ...

Not so Joan Schenkar, whose new portrait of the mystery writer, Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995), is full of reminders that Schenkar knew one of Highsmith’s female lovers, that she doesn’t think ...

Patricia Highsmith. W.W. Norton: 5 volumes boxed, $100--In March 1954, in a rented cottage in Lenox, Mass., Patricia Highsmith, who had gained considerable acclaim with her first book ...

Highsmith was born in 1921, in Fort Worth, Texas (also the home state of her first homicidal hero, Guy Haines, from Strangers on a Train), as Mary Patricia Plangman.

Patricia Highsmith, as seen in ‘Loving Highsmith.’ (Ellen Rifkin Hill/Courtesy Swiss Social Archives) The film also gives us a sense of what it was like for Highsmith growing up amid the ...

Eva Vitija didn’t want her documentary on Patricia Highsmith to turn into a parade of literary experts and bibliophiles analyzing her work. The Swiss filmmaker knew her portrait of the famed ...

Patricia Highsmith at 100: How the author’s chilling stories of murder have fascinated filmmakers for decades. Highsmith’s murderous con artist in The Talented Mr Ripley has become so well ...

Patricia Highsmith (Jan. 19, 1921 - Feb. 5, 1995) was an American writer whose tales of gentlemen murderers and psychological intrigue were often explorations of her own obsessions.

As per Graham Greene’s introduction to her “Selected Short Stories,” American novelist Patricia Highsmith created a world of distrust and disillusionment, an illogical and often fantastical ...

Patricia Highsmith's 1950 novel "Strangers on a Train" is a moody and disturbing excavation of guilty paranoia that bears little resemblance to the Hitchcock film beyond its initial premise.

Patricia Highsmith (Jan. 19, 1921 - Feb. 5, 1995) was an American writer whose tales of gentlemen murderers and psychological intrigue were often explorations of her own obsessions.