Inside the life of the 'unlovable and unloving' Patricia Highsmith: Author of The Talented Mr Ripley was dubbed cruel and 'relentlessly ugly', hated men and said th…
In The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith brought to life one of the most enduring antiheroes readers will come across.
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‘Murder is a kind of making love’: The strange life of Patricia Highsmith, the author behind The Talented Mr Ripley
No one wrote antiheroes like Patricia Highsmith. Take Tom Ripley, the “suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral” conman protagonist of her 1955 thriller The Talented Mr Ripley, who lies ...