In June 1952 – two years before she started to write The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith had a dream about killing someone. In her nightmare, she was setting fire to a girl who ...

As we near the 25th anniversary of the acclaimed Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's most infamous creation, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Netflix has released a striking new ...

“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 statemen ...

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

Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a tangle of contradictions. Credit...Photo: Swiss Literary ...

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Literary critic Terry Castle says most people know Patricia Highsmith's writing through screen adaptations, but her original stories are even more chilling and compelling. "The main characters do ...

Documentary filmmaker Eva Vitija remembers being struck by the idea of Patricia Highsmith when Vitija’s parents described the famous writer who lived alone with her cats in Tegna, the Swiss town ...

Acclaimed Australian playwright Joanna Murray-Smith will return to the engrossing world of American novelist Patricia ...

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 ...

The 1951 Alfred Hitchcock film based on the 1950 novel by Patricia Highsmith, who also wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley and Carol, is about (you guessed it) two strangers, Bruno and Guy, who meet on ...

Eva Vitija didn’t want her documentary on Patricia Highsmith to turn into a parade of literary experts and bibliophiles analyzing her work. The Swiss filmmaker knew her portrait of the famed ...