Provided one enjoys this bleaker brand of storytelling, Highsmith's highest-rated books on Goodreads are a good place to ...

The punishment for those who love Patricia Highsmith’s best novels is that every work of thriller fiction by others can seem humdrum and sublunary by comparison.

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

The same might be said of Highsmith. Her story begins in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921. Abandoned by her father in infancy, a love-hate relationship with her mother left deeper scars.

Loving Highsmith aims to challenge crime author Patricia Highsmith’s reputation as a cold-hearted misanthrope. Derek Hudson / Getty Images. In 1948, a 27-year-old recent graduate of Barnard ...

Eventually, the 8,000 pages of entries, which Highsmith wrote from 1941 until her death, were organized into an almost 1,000-page volume: “Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks.” ...

“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 statement.

In 1955, Patricia Highsmith unleashed the character Tom Ripley on the world. In her book "The Talented Mr. Ripley," Highsmith introduced us to an unprepossessing young man, an unreliable narrator ...

In “Loving Highsmith,” filmmaker Eva Vitija explores the life and career of author Patricia Highsmith through the lens of her love life, a form of psychobiography that fitfully brings the ...

Highsmith's writing was full of fakes, forgeries and falsehoods, revealing not only what her characters concealed, but what readers were willing to see. Untangling the contradictions of crime ...

In 1955, Patricia Highsmith unleashed the character Tom Ripley on the world. In her book "The Talented Mr. Ripley," Highsmith introduced us to an unprepossessing young man, an unreliable narrator ...