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Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year, she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train (1950), was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley (1955), introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously, the same year.Bears Highsmith's unique, unsurpassed mixture of unsettling psychological insights, moods of tension and malice, and an <b>ending of brilliant ambiguity</b>
The Times
There's more to Patricia Highsmith than Ripley
- Rachel Cooke, Guardian
My suspicion is that when the dust has settled and when the chronicle of twentieth century American literature comes to be written, <b>history will place Highsmith at the top of the pyramid</b>, as we should place Dostoevsky at the top of the Russian hierarchy of novelists
- A. N. Wilson, Daily Telegraph
Highsmith writes about men like a spider writing about flies
Observer
For eliciting the menace that lurks in familiar surroundings, there's no one like Patricia Highsmith
Time
[Highsmith's] characters are irrational, and they leap to life in their very lack of reason; suddenly we realize how unbelievably rational most fictional characters are. . . . <b>Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear</b>
- Graham Greene,