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Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer, most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. In addition to her acclaimed series about murderer Tom Ripley, she wrote many short stories, often macabre, satirical or tinged with black humor. Although she wrote specifically in the genre of crime fiction, her books have been lauded by various writers and critics as being artistic and thoughtful enough to rival mainstream literature. Michael Dirda observed, "Europeans honored her as a psychological novelist, part of an existentialist tradition represented by her own favorite writers, in particular Dostoevsky, Conrad, Kafka, Gide, and Camus."
In view of the fact that I surround myself with numbskulls now, I shall die among numbskulls, and on my deathbed shall be surrounded by numbskulls who will not understand what I am saying ... Whom am I sleeping with these days? Franz Kafka!
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[on film versions of her novels]: Really, I don't mind too much if they take liberties with my plots, because they're trying to do something quite different from a book, and I think they have a right to change the story as much as they wish. I couldn't write a book with the idea in my mind that it was going to be a film. That would be like thinking of a statue when you're painting a picture.
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Although she was quite open about having had several lesbian relationships in her life, mostly short-lasting, she did at one time seriously consider marrying the writer Marc Brandel, although they agreed to abandon the idea eventually.
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In-between England (she lived in Suffolk from 1963 - 1967) and Switzerland (she moved to Switzerland in 1983), Patricia Highsmith spent many years living in France not far from Fontainebleau in a small village called Montcourt where she wrote her second, third and fourth of five Ripley sequels. Belle Ombre, Ripley's fictitious house, is located very close to Montcourt. Andrew Wilson wrote a biography on Highsmith called "Beautiful Shadow" a translation of Belle Ombre.
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Her work enjoyed greater popularity in Europe than in the United States.
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Spent much of her later life in solitude on a 200-year old farmhouse near Locarno, Switzerland, surrounded by books and cats.
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Disliked being classified as a 'crime writer'. She is perhaps better described as an author of psychological thrillers, often examining people put into harrowing situations through seemingly innocuous catalysts.
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Raised by her grandmother in Greenwich Village, and taught to read at the age of two.
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President of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival in 1978.
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Attended Barnard College
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Emigrated to England in 1951. Lived most of her life in Switzerland.
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Used the pseudonym Claire Morgan for the novel The Price of Salt (later retitled Carol) because of its autobiographical lesbian theme, to avoid pigeonholing.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
ITV Play of the Week
1967
TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Wednesday Thriller
1965
TV Series writer - 1 episode
Enough Rope
1963
novel "The Blunderer"
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
TV Series novel - 1 episode
Purple Noon
1960
novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley"
77 Sunset Strip
1958
TV Series novel - 1 episode
Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre
1957
TV Series story - 1 episode
Climax!
1956
TV Series story - 1 episode
Studio One in Hollywood
TV Series novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" - 1 episode, 1956 writer - 1 episode, 1956
Strangers on a Train
1951
from the novel by
A Kind of Murder
2016
novel "The Blunderer"
Carol
2015
novel "The Price of Salt"
The Two Faces of January
2014
based on the novel by
A Mighty Nice Man
2014
Short writer
The Cry of the Owl
2009
novel
15!
2007
TV Movie extracts
Ripley Under Ground
2005
novel "Ripley Under Ground"
Ripley's Game
2002
novel
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999
novel
Once You Meet a Stranger
1996
TV Movie novel "Strangers on a Train"
La rançon du chien
1996
TV Movie novel
Petits contes misògins
1995
TV Movie short stories
Trip nach Tunis
1993
novel "The Tremor of Forgery"
Chillers
TV Series short story - 2 episodes, 1990 story "A Bird Poised to Fly - 1 episode, 1992 story "Under a Dark Angel's Eye" - 1 episode, 1992 story "Something the Cat Dragged In" - 1 episode, 1992 story "Something You Have to Live With" - 1 episode, 1990 novel - 1 episode, 1990 story "A Curious Suicide" - 1 episode, 1990 story "Blow It" - 1 episode, 1990 story "Slowly Slowly in the Wind" - 1 episode, 1990 story "Old Folks At Home" - 1 episode, 1990 story "The Stuff of Madness" - 1 episode
Der Geschichtenerzähler
1989
novel "The Story Teller"
Der Schrei der Eule
1987
TV Movie novel "The Cry of the Owl"
Le cri du hibou
1987
novel
Die zwei Gesichter des Januar
1986
novel
Tales of the Unexpected
1984
TV Series story - 1 episode
Ediths Tagebuch
1983
novel
Tiefe Wasser
1983
TV Series novel - 2 episodes
The South Bank Show
1982
TV Series documentary writer - 1 episode
Eaux profondes
1981
novel
Die gläserne Zelle
1978
novel
Armchair Thriller
1978
TV Series novel - 6 episodes
This Sweet Sickness
1977
novel based on "This Sweet Sickness", french title "Ce mal étrange"'
$250,000
