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 ...

Patricia Highsmith is a tricky subject for biography, though British academic Richard Bradford is the third in 18 years to try. Tricky, because Highsmith’s behavior could be as creepy and ...

“Writing, of course, is a substitute for the life I cannot live,” Patricia Highsmith wrote in a diary entry from 1950. Were she Jane Austen or a Brontë sister, this might be a romantic statement.

Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) has joined the cast of Anton Corbijn's thriller Switzerland starring Helen Mirren as crime novelist and Tom Ripley creator Patricia Highsmith. Sources close to ...

Patricia Highsmith (Ellen Rifkin Hill, courtesy Swiss Social Archives) It’s when the documentary aims for more conventional biography that it flounders, ...

The same might be said of Highsmith. Her story begins in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921. Abandoned by her father in infancy, a love-hate relationship with her mother left deeper scars.

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her psychological thrillers, ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The punishment for those who love Patricia Highsmith’s best novels is that every work of thriller fiction by others ...

The author of the celebrated lesbian novel adapted in the 2015 film “Carol” and the creator of the sociopathic serial killer Tom Ripley, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith is now the subject of a ...

Together, Highsmith’s former flames draw a compelling portrait of underground life in the mid 20 th century, as we learn how each influenced the author both personally and professionally.