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Patricia Highsmith

19 Jan 1921 - 4 Feb 1995

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.

She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature, and questioned notions of identity and popular morality. She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.

Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the Alfred Hitchcock film released in 1951. Her 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted for film. Writing under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, The Price of Salt, in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film.

Source: Patricia Highsmith on Wikipedia

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Subjects
Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, American literature, Fiction, short stories (single author), Ripley, tom (fictitious character), fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Criminals, Criminals, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Psychopaths, Tom Ripley (Fictitious character), Serial murderers, Serial murders, fiction, France, fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, suspense, Murder, American Psychological fiction, Children's fiction, Fiction in English, Fiction, mystery & detective, collections & anthologies, Fiction, thrillers, general, New york (n.y.), fiction
Places
France, Italy, New Jersey, Baker Street, Berlin (Germany), Chicago, Dublin, Great Britain, Jamaica, Jefferson, John F. Kennedy International Airport, London, Mexico City (Mexico), Mississippi, New York, New York City, Paris, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvanie, Suffolk (England), Tunisia, Tunisie, United States, Villeperce, Yoknapatawpha County
People
Archie, Aunt Glosspan, Berenice, C. Auguste Dupin, Carlos, Cindy Morrison, Colonel Sartoris, Duncan Ross, Egaeus, Emily Grierson, Ernest Valdemar, Homer Barron, Jabez Wilson, Jimmy McCann, John Clay, John H. Watson, Kathleen Kearney, Lexington, Minister D—, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mr. Grierson, Mr. Holohan, Mr. Merryweather, Mr. Zuckermann, Mrs. Kearney
Time
20th century, 1890, 1940's, 1945-, 1945-1990, 1950's, 1950s, 1970-, 20e siècle, Antebellum era, Irish Revival, Siglo XX

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  • Claire Morgan
  • Kevin Hinkle
  • PATRICIA HIGHSMITH
  • HIGHSMITH PATRICIA

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