Highsmith was born Mary Patricia Plangman ... The film was adapted for the big screen in 2015 production Carol, with Cate ...

In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal novel The Price of Salt, CAROL follows two women from very different backgrounds who find themselves in an unexpected love affair in 1950s New York.

Patricia would look back on her early life ... and the older, married Carol. Highsmith published it under a pseudonym, and only revealed herself as its author a few years before her death.