Patricia Highsmith, the Dark Lady of American Letters, worked her 1956 Olympia Portable typewriter violently enough to wipe the letter "E" right off its keyboard.

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.

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 ...

“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 “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 ...

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.” ...

Patricia Highsmith, from "Loving Highsmith." Courtesy Swiss Literary Archives Just like the rest of us, the movies have their favorite authors: Dickens, Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Raymond ...

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Helen Mirren is set to star as celebrated author Patricia Highsmith in new movie Switzerland, whose plot will mirror one of the Tom Ripley novels for which the American ...

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 ...