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

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 ...

To safeguard her career, Highsmith published the book under the alias Claire Morgan, not officially claiming it as her own until it was republished as Carol in 1990. Movie Reviews Women In Love In ...

This bloody-minded serial killer fantasist and antisocial social climber would become Patricia Highsmith's best known and best loved creation. She published five Ripley novels in all from 1955 to ...

The mercurial life of novelist Patricia Highsmith, author of "Strangers on a Train" and "Carol," is explored in the documentary "Loving Highsmith." ...

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 ...

In “Loving Highsmith,” filmmaker Eva Vitija explores the life and career of author Patricia Highsmith through the lens of her love life, a form of psychobiography that fitfully brings the ...

While “neither glossing over nor interpreting anything,” says von Planta, Highsmith meticulously transcribed and edited the pages that form the book, Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and ...

A two-volume collection packs in thrillers from Patricia Highsmith, Chester Himes, Richard Stark ... With “Crime Novels of the 1960s,” we enter fully into what the series editor Geoffrey O ...

A New Documentary Probes Famed Author Patricia Highsmith’s Formative Years in North Texas Eva Vitija’s Loving Highsmith focuses on the personal life and artistic influences of the iconoclastic ...

Before she wrote nearly two dozen suspense novels about psychopaths, sad sacks, and untimely death, when she was a twentysomething party girl in Manhattan, Patricia Highsmith wanted to write a ...