Goodes directed Switzerland (2014), Murray-Smith’s play about author Patricia Highsmith, which has been picked up by London-and-Sydney-based Brouhaha Entertainment, to be produced by overseas ...

In conversation she flits between allusions to complex female figures, such as Patricia Highsmith (“This woman is horrible and it’s fascinating”) or Maria Lassnig (“her biography is really ...

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

Based on the film from 2005, this version of the tale is superior. “Ripley” An engrossing retelling of Patricia Highsmith’s psychological thriller novel of 1955, darker than the film of 1999.

A crucial scene in Ripley, the latest adaptation of Patricia Highsmith ’s classic thriller The Talented Mr. Ripley, places the eponymous grifter in Rome’s Galleria Borghese.

“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 not considered to be one of the kindest people who ever lived. In fact, she was regarded to be one of the nastiest people.

Drawing extensively on Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks 1941-1995, published in 2021, Vitija has created what she calls a “love-biography”. Much of this is related by three of Highsmith’s ...

Highsmith gallantly summarises, or tries, the unloving, often cruel divorced mother; the rodeo-culture Texas family background (machismo essential, even for women); the all-but-orphaned growing-up.

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 ...