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	Patricia Highsmith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Highsmith's childhood years were grim, as indicated by her mother's confession that she had once tried to abort her pregnancy by drinking turpentine.
		Highsmith found out her address from her credit card details, and on two occasions after the book was written (in June 1950 and January 1951) spied on the woman without the latter's knowledge.
		Highsmith died of leukemia in 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patricia_Highsmith (1212 words)

	The Chronicle: 2/20/2004: Reality Catches Up to Highsmith's Hard-Boiled Fiction
		When Patricia Highsmith's final novel, Small g, was rejected in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf, it left the author without an American publisher and culminated years of declining interest in Highsmith in her home country.
		Highsmith was known in her time as a talented genre writer, a psychological crime novelist with style and penetrating depth of vision.
		Meaker recalls that Highsmith "complained habitually about Americans and women as though she was neither one." The strain of alienation took a toll, and Highsmith slipped in her later years into gnarled, bigoted misanthropy.
	chronicle.com /free/v50/i24/24b01201.htm (1442 words)

	Patricia Highsmith, Creator of The Talented Mr. Ripley - Mystery Books
		Highsmith was educated at Julia Richmond High School in New York and at Columbia, where she studied English, Latin and Greek, earning her B.A. in 1942.
		Highsmith developed the idea further in THE BLUNDERER (1954), where a man's wife dies accidentally but people become suspicious when he regularly visits another who had murdered his wife, a psychopath and proceeds to carry out his part of the bargain.
		Highsmith herself had a number of lesbian affairs, but in 1949 she also become close to the novelist Marc Brandel.
	www.bellaonline.com /ArticlesP/art14572.asp (765 words)

	Telegraph \| Entertainment \| A passion that turned to poison
		Highsmith, however, was equally smitten and could not understand why Meaker did not contact her in Europe.
		Highsmith, an accomplished artist as well as a writer, often sketched Meaker and several of her pictures are on the walls of Meaker's home.
		Highsmith drank heavily throughout her stay and was rude to Meaker's friends.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/06/16/bohig15.xml (1973 words)

	Patricia Highsmith
		The professor told the class she had picked the book because it was well written and it presented an interesting twist to a gay love story, no one dies or goes straight at the end (imagine that).
		Highsmith explored the psychology of guilt and abnormal behavior in a world without firm moral ground.
		Highsmith’s great theme is the unlived life, the secret consciousness, the hidden self.Because she wanted to be considered a serious writer, she published her third novel, The Price of Salt, which has a lesbian theme, under a pseudonym.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/h/highsmith_patricia.htm (875 words)

	Patricia Highsmith. Biography and complete works
		Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in New York.
		Patricia was unaware that Stanley Highsmith was not he biological father until she was 10.
		Highsmith dealt with sexual minorities in her other works, and her final novel, Small G: a summer idyll (1995), depicted a bar in Zurich, where a number of homosexual, heterosexual, and bisexual characters are in love with the wrong people.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/highsmith.htm (1154 words)

	Vintage Crime/ Black Lizard
		Patricia Highsmith (1921 –; 1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in New York.
		In 1957 Highsmith won the coveted French Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere and in 1964 was awarded the Silver Dagger by the British Crime Writers Association.
		In a chilling literary hall of mirrors, Patricia Highsmith introduces Tom Ripley. Like a hero in a latter-day Henry James novel, is sent to Italy with a commission to coax a prodigal young American back to his wealthy father.
	www.randomhouse.com /vintage/blacklizard/catalog/results2.pperl?authorid=12941 (446 words)

	Gerald Peary - interviews - Patricia Highsmith
		Highsmith, however, sighs at the repeated press descriptions of her as a "recluse." "It's because I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet." Where exactly she won't say, though it is in a two-street town in the Italian part of Switzerland, three-and-a-half hours from Zurich.
		Highsmith has never seen Once You Kiss a Stranger, a 1969 Warners variation on Strangers on a Train, in which a crazy girl (Carol Lynley) offers to assassinate the chief competition of a golf pro (Paul Burke) if this golfer will bump off her psychiatrist."God knows, it was certainly done behind my back!" Highsmith laughs.
		This was Highsmith's only overtly gay novel prior to her new Found in the Street, which is set in the casually bisexual New York art world.
	www.geraldpeary.com /interviews/ghi/highsmith.html (1700 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Highsmith, Patricia
		One disturbing and radical aspect of Highsmith's writing is her firm integration of good with evil, no longer cast out as other, but slipping, undifferentiated, into the totality of human behavior.
		Critic Kathleen Gregory Klein argues that Highsmith has gone as far as creating a new fictional form, citing her introduction of the cult-figure serial killer Tom Ripley as a new type of criminal superhero, prefiguring similar cultural icons that appeared in the 1990s.
		Patricia Highsmith is not an author who offers predictable, comforting role models to lesbian or gay readers but one who provides narrative absorption through psychological subtlety.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/highsmith_p.html (921 words)

	'Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		Although her sexuality was not clear-cut, Highsmith on the whole preferred women, but she constantly engaged in fantasy relationships with unavailable heterosexual women, or became involved with difficult or controlling partners.
		Patricia Highsmith’s feelings about herself as a woman were complicated by the fact that she saw herself at times as having a male identity.
		Highsmith’s cahiers are a vital insight into her personal life, her psychology, and her mindset as a writer.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/beautifulshadow.html (1785 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Books / In her novels, Patricia Highsmith compellingly charts gay sensibility
		The relationship is sensually and sensitively drawn by Highsmith, who was drawing on her own experiences as a lesbian.
		Part of Highsmith's great skill as a writer was to describe her characters, no matter how transgressive, without appearing judgmental.
		Highsmith charges the novel with a heightened description of the aforementioned sweet sickness of obsessive love: ''One could laugh at it with Carol.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2004/07/04/in_her_novels_patricia_highsmith_compellingly_charts_gay_sensibility?mode=PF (796 words)

	The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
		Highsmith, on the other hand, prefers to play the Devil’s advocate - if not the very Devil himself - by inviting us to identify with every twisted compulsion and petty indignation swirling inside the head of a sociopath.
		Highsmith quickly establishes her themes of pursuit and paranoia with those first four words: "Tom glanced behind him..." Her symbolic use of the color green is evident in the first sentence, too.
		Highsmith doesn’t just "steal" the outline of James’s plot, she turns James upside down, shakes the pennies from his pockets, and gives him a wedgie for good measure.
	www.culturevulture.net /Books/TalentedMrRipleybook.htm (1061 words)

	Boston Review: Patricia Highsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Patricia Highsmith was born January 19, 1921, in Fort Worth, Texas, to Jay Bernard Plangman, of German descent, and Mary Coates, of English-Scots descent.
		Shortly after her birth, the parents separated and divorced; Patricia was raised by her Texas grandmother until the age of six, at which time she joined her mother and stepfather, both commercial artists, in New York.
		Highsmith was herself a recluse, living for much of her life alone in an isolated house near Locarno on the Swiss-Italian border.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR26.5/sallis.html (3884 words)

	James Sallis Web Pages - The Boston Globe: A Reading Life
		Founded squarely on Highsmith's journals, hundreds of interviews and a close reading of her work, Wilson's is one of the best biographies I've come across in years.
		Half a century before the term came into general usage, Highsmith's work was deeply transgressive not only of received wisdom, prescribed behavior and social attitudes, but also of conventional notions of fiction.
		Patricia Highsmith was always a difficult woman, and grew ever more difficult with time.
	www.grasslimb.com /sallis/GlobeColumns/globe.12.highsmith.html (887 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Patricia Highsmith - Books: Meet the Writers
		Highsmith was an admirer of James and acknowledged the similarity by having Mr.
		Highsmith died in 1995, but two new collections of her short stories have added a new breadth to her work.
		Highsmith's first novel became the classic 1951 movie directed by Alfred Hitchock (and scripted by, among others, the legendary Raymond Chandler).
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=747012 (347 words)

	Amazon.ca: Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She was her writing." Highsmith's work has had an important impact on both crime fiction and gay and lesbian fiction, and Wilson has impressively documented that as well as the tremendous cost Highsmith paid for her achievements.
		Highsmith was never very popular in the U.S., at least until the recent movie The Talented Mister Ripley, came out after her death.
		Highsmith's life was far from a happy one, in fact in many ways it could be charitably described as a disaster.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1582344116 (981 words)

	'Strangers On a Train' by Patricia Highsmith
		It’s somehow fitting that Patricia Highsmith was born in Texas, for the only territory more murder-obsessed than her native state is the one created in her imagination.
		In her collections, “Slowly, Slowly in the Wind” (1979), “The Black House” (1981), and “Mermaids on the Golf Course” (1985), Highsmith probes this theme further in tales that are marvelously subtle and sophisticated.
		Highsmith continued to write about gay and bisexual characters throughout her career, linking the fallibility of conventional romance with her own brooding preoccupations.
	www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/20010902review835.asp (796 words)

	Getting the lowdown on Patricia Highsmith - [Sunday Herald] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She herself was alcoholic and lesbian, gamine and swarthy with a curtain of fl hair, with, as her first biographer Andrew Wilson says, Òa quite dizzying parade of loversÓ, most of whom were female.
		Consequently, comparisons of Highsmith with Edgar Allan Poe and Raymond Chandler are not invidious.
		Nine days after Highsmith was born, herÊparentsÊdivorced.ÊSheÊwas brought up by her mother and step-father, a man she loathed.
	www.sundayherald.com /34199 (1021 words)

	THE ANIMAL-LOVER'S BOOK OF BEASTLY MURDER - COLLECTIBLE BOOK FOR SALE
		Every crime is caused by an animal but it should be pretty clear that the reason Patricia Highsmith sees evil in animals is that she sees Man as first and foremost, just another animal, too.
		Highsmith is unsettling because deep down, she sees a void in the human soul that most readers would rather not see or even acknowledge.
		Patricia Highsmith is best-known as the author of "The Talented Mr.
	www.modernrare.com /books/853 (316 words)

	Patricia Highsmith's 'The Price of Salt' reviewed on the official website of Laura Hird
		Patricia Highsmith’s genius inheres in her ability to dramatize the costs — personal, professional, legal and societal — of self-actualization.
		Highsmith [was] a writer fascinated by the concept of split identity.
		Patricia Highsmith’s brilliance can be sensed not only in her disturbing depictions of mankind or in her perceptive portrayals of evil, but in her uncanny ability to discover love in the crevices of our consciousnesses, where against all odds, a bounteous acceptance of the other abides.
	www.laurahird.com /newreview/priceofsalt.html (2508 words)

	Ripley's Game by Patricia Highsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While Highsmith didn’t write in traditional spare, hard-boiled prose, she has clearer thematic similarities to Thompson, Cain, or Goodis than to any female writers from her era.
		Like her male noir counterparts, Highsmith understood that you don’t have to “like” characters—including protagonists—in order to enjoy reading about them, or for the book to have something compelling to say.
		Highsmith gave Tom Ripley a disturbing, nightmarish, watching-a-car-accident quality that makes us keep turning pages, but her big trick was to make us root for Ripley despite what he does.
	www.randomhouse.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780679745686&view=print (725 words)

	Highsmith Patricia Switzerland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born Mary Patricia Plangman in 1921, in Fort Worth, Texas, she was taken in by her grandmother after her parents' separation.
		During her teens, she demonstrated a talent for painting and sculpture, and this was when she began writing short stories.
		Patricia Highsmith continued the Ripley series with Ripley Under Ground in 1970, The Boy Who Followed Ripley in 1980 and Ripley Under Water in 1991.
	switzerland.isyours.com /e/celebrities/bios/60.html (355 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Talented Mr Ripley: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Highsmith was in peak form with this novel, and her ability to enter the mind of a sociopath and view the world through his disturbingly amoral eyes is a model that has spawned such latter-day serial killers as Hannibal Lechter.-- Patrick O'Kelley
		Highsmith is an acute observer and is able to translate her sensitivity into a multidimensional portrait of a successful criminal in a way that is virtually unmatched.
		It is hardly surprising that Patricia Highsmith has drawn such a complex character study, she was infatuated with her creation, to the point that she would sign letters from both herself and Tom!
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099282879 (2006 words)

	Patricia Highsmith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Almost unknown in the United States during her lifetime, the American Patricia Highsmith, who died in 1995, lived almost all of her adult life in England and Italy.
		Patricia Highsmith's first novel, Strangers on a Train was, as the world knows, adapted by Raymond Chandler, a writer of hard boiled detective stories with a much higher profile than Highsmith would ever have, or want, and filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, who had a higher profile than anybody.
		Highsmith's great theme is the unlived life, the secret consciousness, the hidden self.
	www.selu.edu /kslu/highsmith.html (491 words)

	Patricia Highsmith Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In a cruel twist of irony, Texas-born Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) is being recognized only after her death for her inestimable genius in her native land.
		With the savage humor of Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Poe, she brought a distinctly contemporary acuteness to her prolific body of noir fiction.
		Living in self-imposed exile in Switzerland and France for most of her life, Highsmith, from this far-off vantage point, felt the freedom to express her uniquely haunting literary imagination.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/featured/highsmith/home.htm (114 words)

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