“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.

Patricia Highsmith was a prolific self-chronicler.The author of "Strangers on a Train," "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and roughly two-dozen other novels and works of short fiction kept diaries ...

Patricia Highsmith (Ellen Rifkin Hill, courtesy Swiss Social Archives) It’s when the documentary aims for more conventional biography that it flounders, ...

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer best known for her psychological thrillers, ...

Credit: Courtesy. Consider the fascinating documentary Loving Highsmith, a kind of film about film, but once or thrice removed.Those in the literary know, know Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) as a ...

Shooting is underway in Rome on Anton Corbijn's thriller "Switzerland,” starring Helen Mirren as American crime novelist ...

Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon) has joined the cast of Anton Corbijn's thriller Switzerland starring Helen Mirren as crime novelist and Tom Ripley creator Patricia Highsmith. Sources close to ...

The image of Patricia Highsmith absorbed in the solitary act of creation, clack-clack-clacking on a manual typewriter as the words spring from her fingertips, is one of the more revealing moments ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The punishment for those who love Patricia Highsmith’s best novels is that every work of thriller fiction by others ...

Together, Highsmith’s former flames draw a compelling portrait of underground life in the mid 20 th century, as we learn how each influenced the author both personally and professionally.

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 ...