Highsmith
Britishnoun
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From Thomas Mann to Daphne du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith, Michael Dibdin and Donna Leon, novelists have been drawn to the watery labyrinth where solid ground routinely crumbles and where certainty—even identity itself—might dissolve.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
Patricia Highsmith framed her 1952 lesbian romance “The Price of Salt” at the fictional Frankenberg’s, based on Bloomingdale’s.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2024
One is “Ripley,” based on the 1955 Patricia Highsmith novel, starring Andrew Scott as the eponymous sociopath who takes over the life of a trust-fund kid.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2024
The character of Ripley can be seen as a kind of auto-fiction, a way for Highsmith to live as someone else.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2024
It was in the rathskeller that Highsmith made the hit of his histrionic career.
From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.
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