At the same time, Highsmith's legacy has been tarnished by a series of unflattering posthumous disclosures in biographies by Andrew Wilson (2003), Joan Schenkar (2009) and Richard Bradford (2021 ...

On the Shelf Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 Edited by Anna von Planta Liveright: 999 pages, $40 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from ...

Buy on Bookshop Liveright, 1,024 pp., $39.95 Suspense fiction was Patricia Highsmith’s term for her own novels of guilty or innocent men, in which detectives merely figure as foils, if at all.

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 ...

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 ...

In 1955, Patricia Highsmith unleashed the character Tom Ripley on the world. In her book "The Talented Mr. Ripley," Highsmith introduced us to an unprepossessing young man, an unreliable narrator ...

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 ...

<p>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. Among her ...

Patricia Highsmith was a prolific self-chronicler.The author of "Strangers on a Train," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and roughly two-dozen other novels and works of short fiction kept diaries ...

Sallis' omnibus volume, "What You Have Left: The Turner Trilogy," will be published in December. In March 1954, in a rented cottage in Lenox, Mass., Patricia Highsmith, who had gained considerable ...

There are some 20 film and television adaptations to date of Patricia Highsmith novels, including “Strangers on a Train” (1951) directed by Alfred Hitchcock, “The Talented Mr. Ripley ...

Without much style, Deville, who never rose to the prominent ranks of his contemporaries Godard and Truffaut, sustains an air of mystery befitting Patricia Highsmith. “Cry of the Owl” (1987) ...