For a total psychopath, Tom Ripley is remarkably popular. As we near the 25th anniversary of the acclaimed Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's most infamous creation, The ...

The same might be said of Highsmith. Her story begins in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921. Abandoned by her father in infancy, a love-hate relationship with her mother left deeper scars.

Highsmith was a superb short story writer, dating all the way to her first, award-winning 1945 tale, “The Heroine.” (I reprinted it in my 2013 anthology “Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives.” ...

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

“Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live,” Patricia Highsmith wrote in a diary entry from 1950. Were she Jane Austen or a Brontë sister, this might be a romantic statement.

The best moments in Patricia Highsmith’s novels are the ones in which we see quick flashes of her protagonists’ interiority, before they reset the masks they’re inevitably presenting to the ...

Patricia Highsmith at home, in 1977. Liselotte Erben / Sygma via Getty Images file. The other two women that Vitija interviews onscreen, Monique Buffet and Tabea Blumenschein, ...

Andrew Scott plays Tom Ripley in the new Netflix series, Ripley, drawn from Patricia Highsmith's novel. For a total psychopath, Tom Ripley is remarkably popular. As we near the 25th anniversary of ...

Hannah Gold on a new collection of Patricia Highsmith’s notebooks and diary entries, which reveal the writer’s disdain for conformity and her hunger for money.

Highsmith (1921-95) was born in Texas. Her mother divorced her father nine days before her birth. She moved to New York at 6, went to Barnard, traveled regularly to Europe, eventually settling ...

For a total psychopath, Tom Ripley is remarkably popular. As we near the 25th anniversary of the acclaimed Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's most infamous creation, The ...