Author Patricia Highsmith in 1987. (Photo: Ulf Andersen via Getty Images) Author Patricia Highsmith achieved global fame with 1950’s “Strangers on a Train” and 1955’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” but a ...

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 rest of ...

FAME, that tardy drab, often delays her entrance till after the gravestone has been cut. In the case of Patricia Highsmith, who died in 1995, credit Anthony Minghella's recent film version of 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 suspense ...

Patricia Highsmith is lauded as the author of the unparalleled psychological thrillers “Strangers on a Train” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” “The Price of Salt,” her classic story of erotic obsession, ...

No one wrote antiheroes like Patricia Highsmith. Take Tom Ripley, the “suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral” conman protagonist of her 1955 thriller The Talented Mr Ripley, who lies, cheats and ...

Scorching-hot westerns, seafaring adventures and steamy romances are an ideal way to stay toasty this season. By Calum Marsh A new history by Roland Allen uncovers the wealth of ideas and invention ...

Patricia Highsmith is remembered for having produced some of the “darkest and most disturbing books ever written”, said Ian Thomson in the London Evening Standard – in particular her five novels about ...

A new year, a new genre for our book club: non-chronological literary biography. Why did we choose Joan Schenkar's disjointed portrait of Patricia Highsmith, the mastermind of stylish psychological ...

Anyone conversant with the novels and short stories of Patricia Highsmith will likely scratch their heads when pondering the title of the new documentary, “Loving Highsmith.” Is there a literary ...

Writer Patricia Highsmith at a film festival in Sept. 1987 in Deauville, France.(Denize-Pelletier / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) In 1967, Patricia Highsmith’s U.S. agent sent her a letter, explaining ...