Hollywood has snatched up another Highsmith humdinger, The Talented Mr. Ripley, published in 1955.
At age 6, Highsmith moved to New York, where she was raised by a grandmother.
Highsmith's mother later told her that she'd tried to induce an abortion by drinking turpentine.
On the recommendation of Truman Capote, Highsmith attended the Yaddo writers' colony in Saratoga Springs, N.
Strangers on a Train was written in 1950 by an American named Patricia Highsmith.
Brian Highsmith is a Policy Advisor in the National Economic Council of the Executive Office of the President.
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Though her books sit in the mystery sections of bookstores, whodunit in a Highsmith story is never a mystery.
In her last years Highsmith retreated to a small mountain village near Locarno, Switzerland, where she holed up with her cats.
On the recommendation of Truman Capote, Highsmith attended the Yaddo writers' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York in the summer of 1948.
Highsmith's books are page-turners of the first order, reflecting Highsmith's unsparing vision of human nature that makes her a ghoulish treat for grownups.
Literature fans may want to take a brief side trip to Tegna where the author Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) spent the last years of her life (her grave is in the Tegna cemetery).
Raymond Highsmith, executive director of the National Institute for Undersea Science and Technology, a Mississipi consortium coordinating the ship's research, says there are a lot of unknowns about the plume, but that he fears that if it is oil it could harm the small sealife that bigger fish and mammals depend on for food.
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