In 1927, Patricia was whisked away to New York to live with her mother and stepfather, Stanley Highsmith. The experience of ...
Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a ... I begin if I’m totally new to her work?
No one wrote antiheroes like Patricia Highsmith. Take Tom Ripley, the “suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral” conman ...
Almost 70 years after "The Talented Mr Ripley" by novelist and short-story writer Patricia Highsmith was published ... scraping by" in early 1960s New York. A wealthy man pays him to go to ...