Somewhere Patricia Highsmith is smiling ... Mr. Naves is an artist, teacher, and critic based in New York City. His writing has appeared in City Arts, the New Criterion,the New York Observer, Slate, ...

Between 1955 and 1991 Patricia Highsmith wrote five psychological ... eponymous Ripley is a "grifter scraping by" in early 1960s New York. A wealthy man pays him to go to Italy to persuade his ...

Patricia Highsmith was an American author who specialized ... she has admitted to once stalking a woman in New York City. Despite this, the author has expressed dissatisfaction with the book ...

Set in 1995, an ageing Patricia Highsmith is living a secluded existence in the Swiss Alps with only her cats for company. When a pushy young man turns up at her residence, sent by her New York ...