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Patricia Highsmith

March 06, 2023

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995)[1] was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.

Patricia Highsmith
Publicity photo from 1962
BornMary Patricia Plangman
(1921-01-19)January 19, 1921
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
DiedFebruary 4, 1995(1995-02-04) (aged 74)
Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland
Pen nameClaire Morgan (1952)
OccupationNovelist, short story writer
LanguageEnglish
EducationJulia Richman High School
Alma materBarnard College (BA)
Period1942–1995
GenreSuspense, psychological thriller, crime fiction, romance
Literary movementModernist literature
Notable works
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She wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades, and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature,[2] and questioned notions of identity and popular morality.[3] She was dubbed "the poet of apprehension" by novelist Graham Greene.[4]

Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the 1951 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Her 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted for film multiple times. Writing under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, The Price of Salt,[5] in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film.

Early life

Highsmith was born Mary Patricia Plangman in Fort Worth, Texas. She was the only child of artists Jay Bernard Plangman (1889–1975), who was of German descent,[6] and Mary Plangman (née Coates; September 13, 1895 – March 12, 1991). The couple divorced ten days before their daughter's birth.[7]

In 1927, Highsmith, her mother and her adoptive stepfather, artist Stanley Highsmith, whom her mother had married in 1924, moved to New York City.[7] When she was 12 years old, Highsmith was sent to Fort Worth and lived with her maternal grandmother for a year.[citation needed] She called this the "saddest year" of her life and felt "abandoned" by her mother. She returned to New York to continue living with her mother and stepfather, primarily in Manhattan, but also in Astoria, Queens.

According to Highsmith, her mother once told her that she had tried to abort her by drinking turpentine,[8] although a biography of Highsmith indicates Jay Plangman tried to persuade his wife to have the abortion but she refused.[7] Highsmith never resolved this love–hate relationship, which reportedly haunted her for the rest of her life, and which she fictionalized in "The Terrapin", her short story about a young boy who stabs his mother to death.[7] Highsmith's mother predeceased her by only four years, dying at the age of 95.[8]

Highsmith's grandmother taught her to read at an early age, and she made good use of her grandmother's extensive library. At the age of nine, she found a resemblance to her own imaginative life in the case histories of The Human Mind by Karl Menninger, a popularizer of Freudian analysis.[7]

Many of Highsmith's 22 novels were set in Greenwich Village,[9] where she lived at 48 Grove Street from 1940 to 1942, before moving to 345 E. 57th Street.[citation needed] In 1942, Highsmith graduated from Barnard College, where she studied English composition, playwriting, and short story prose.[7] After graduating from college, and despite endorsements from "highly placed professionals,"[10] she applied without success for a job at publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Mademoiselle, Good Housekeeping, Time, Fortune, and The New Yorker.[11]

Based on the recommendation from Truman Capote, Highsmith was accepted by the Yaddo artist's retreat during the summer of 1948, where she worked on her first novel, Strangers on a Train.[12][13]

Personal life

Highsmith endured cycles of depression, some of them deep, throughout her life. Despite literary success, she wrote in her diary of January 1970: "[I] am now cynical, fairly rich ... lonely, depressed, and totally pessimistic."[14] Over the years, Highsmith had female hormone deficiency, anorexia nervosa,[15] chronic anemia, Buerger's disease, and lung cancer.[16]

To all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envys, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle—may they never give me peace.

– Patricia Highsmith, "My New Year's Toast", journal entry, 1947[17]

According to her biographer, Andrew Wilson, Highsmith's personal life was a "troubled one". She was an alcoholic who, allegedly, never had an intimate relationship that lasted for more than a few years, and she was seen by some of her contemporaries and acquaintances as misanthropic and hostile.[18] Her chronic alcoholism intensified as she grew older.[19][20]

She famously preferred the company of animals to that of people and stated in a 1991 interview, "I choose to live alone because my imagination functions better when I don't have to speak with people."[21]

Otto Penzler, her U.S. publisher through his Penzler Books imprint,[22] had met Highsmith in 1983, and four years later witnessed some of her theatrics intended to create havoc at dinner tables and shipwreck an evening.[23] He said after her death that "[Highsmith] was a mean, cruel, hard, unlovable, unloving human being ... I could never penetrate how any human being could be that relentlessly ugly. ... But her books? Brilliant."[24]

Other friends, publishers, and acquaintances held different views of Highsmith. Editor Gary Fisketjon, who published her later novels through Knopf, said that "She was very rough, very difficult ... But she was also plainspoken, dryly funny, and great fun to be around."[24] Composer David Diamond met Highsmith in 1943 and described her as being "quite a depressed person—and I think people explain her by pulling out traits like cold and reserved, when in fact it all came from depression."[25] J. G. Ballard said of Highsmith, "The author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes, and didn't seem to mind if everyone knew it."[26] Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, who adapted The Price of Salt into the 2015 film Carol, met Highsmith in 1987 and the two remained friends for the rest of Highsmith's life.[27] Nagy said that Highsmith was "very sweet" and "encouraging" to her as a young writer, as well as "wonderfully funny."[28][29]

She was considered by some as "a lesbian with a misogynist streak."[30]

Highsmith loved cats, and she bred about three hundred snails in her garden at home in Suffolk, England.[31] Highsmith once attended a London cocktail party with a "gigantic handbag" that "contained a head of lettuce and a hundred snails" which she said were her "companions for the evening."[31]

She loved woodworking tools and made several pieces of furniture. Highsmith worked without stopping. In later life, she became stooped, with an osteoporotic hump.[7] Though the 22 novels and 8 books of short stories she wrote were highly acclaimed, especially outside of the United States, Highsmith preferred her personal life to remain private.[32]

A lifelong diarist, Highsmith left behind eight thousand pages of handwritten notebooks and diaries.[33]

 
345 E. 57th Street, NYC – Residence of Patricia Highsmith

Sexuality

As an adult, Patricia Highsmith's sexual relationships were predominantly with women.[34][35] She occasionally engaged in sex with men without physical desire for them, and wrote in her diary: "The male face doesn't attract me, isn't beautiful to me."[36][a] She told writer Marijane Meaker in the late 1950s that she had "tried to like men. I like most men better than I like women, but not in bed."[37] In a 1970 letter to her stepfather Stanley, Highsmith described sexual encounters with men as "steel wool in the face, a sensation of being raped in the wrong place—leading to a sensation of having to have, pretty soon, a boewl [sic] movement," stressing, "If these words are unpleasant to read, I can assure you it is a little more unpleasant in bed."[34] Phyllis Nagy described Highsmith as "a lesbian who did not very much enjoy being around other women" and the few sexual dalliances she had had with men occurred just to "see if she could be into men in that way because she so much more preferred their company."[27]

In 1943, Highsmith had an affair with artist Allela Cornell who, despondent over unrequited love from another woman, died by suicide in 1946 by drinking nitric acid.[12]

During her stay at Yaddo, Highsmith met writer Marc Brandel, son of author J. D. Beresford.[34] Even though she told him about her homosexuality,[34] they soon entered into a short-lived relationship.[38] He convinced her to visit him in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he introduced her to Ann Smith, a painter and designer with a previous métier as a Vogue fashion model, and the two became involved.[34] After Smith left Provincetown, Highsmith felt she was "in prison" with Brandel and told him she was leaving. "[B]ecause of that I have to sleep with him, and only the fact that it is the last night strengthens me to bear it." Highsmith, who had never been sexually exclusive with Brandel, resented having sex with him.[39] Highsmith temporarily broke off the relationship with Brandel and continued to be involved with several women, reuniting with him after the well-received publication of his new novel. Beginning November 30, 1948, and continuing for the next six months, Highsmith underwent psychoanalysis in an effort "to regularize herself sexually" so she could marry Brandel. The analysis was brought to a stop by Highsmith, after which she ended her relationship with him.[39]

After ending her engagement to Marc Brandel, she had an affair with psychoanalyst Kathryn Hamill Cohen, the wife of British publisher Dennis Cohen and founder of Cresset Press, which later published Strangers on a Train.[40][41]

To help pay for the twice-a-week therapy sessions, Highsmith had taken a sales job during Christmas rush season in the toy section of Bloomingdale's department store.[39] Ironically, it was during this attempt to "cure" her homosexuality that Highsmith was inspired to write her semi-autobiographical novel The Price of Salt, in which two women meet in a department store and begin a passionate affair.[42][43][b]

Believing that Brandel's disclosure that she was homosexual, along with the publication of The Price of Salt, would hurt her professionally, Highsmith had an unsuccessful affair with Arthur Koestler in 1950, designed to hide her homosexuality.[48][49]

In early September 1951, she began an affair with sociologist Ellen Blumenthal Hill, traveling back and forth to Europe to meet with her.[7] When Highsmith and Hill came to New York in early May 1953, their affair ostensibly "in a fragile state", Highsmith began an "impossible" affair with the homosexual German photographer Rolf Tietgens, who had played a "sporadic, intense, and unconsummated role in her emotional life since 1943."[7] She was reportedly attracted to Tietgens on account of his homosexuality, confiding that she felt with him "as if he is another girl, or a singularly innocent man." Tietgens shot several nude photographs of Highsmith, but only one has survived, torn in half at the waist so that only her upper body is visible.[50][7] She dedicated The Two Faces of January (1964) to Tietgens.

Between 1959 and 1961, Highsmith was in love with author Marijane Meaker.[51][52] Meaker wrote lesbian stories under the pseudonym "Ann Aldrich" and mystery/suspense fiction as "Vin Packer", and later wrote young adult fiction as "M. E. Kerr."[52] In the late 1980s, after 27 years of separation, Highsmith began corresponding with Meaker again, and one day showed up on Meaker's doorstep, slightly drunk and ranting bitterly. Meaker later said she was horrified at how Highsmith's personality had changed.[c]

Highsmith was attracted to women of privilege who expected their lovers to treat them with veneration.[53] According to Phyllis Nagy, she belonged to a "very particular subset of lesbians" and described her conduct with many women she was interested in as being comparable to a movie "studio boss" who chased starlets. Many of these women, who to some extent belonged to the 'Carol Aird'-type[d] and her social set, remained friendly with Highsmith and confirmed the stories of seduction.[27]

An intensely private person, Highsmith was remarkably open and outspoken about her sexuality.[32][34] She told Meaker: "the only difference between us and heterosexuals is what we do in bed."[54]

Death

Highsmith died on February 4, 1995, at 74, from a combination of aplastic anemia and lung cancer at Carita Hospital in Locarno, Switzerland, near the village where she had lived since 1982. She was cremated at the cemetery in Bellinzona; a memorial service was conducted in the Chiesa di Tegna in Tegna, Ticino, Switzerland; and her ashes were interred in its columbarium.[55][56][57][58]

She left her estate, worth an estimated $3 million, and the promise of any future royalties to the Yaddo colony, where she spent two months in 1948 writing the draft of Strangers on a Train.[34][e] Highsmith bequeathed her literary estate to the Swiss Literary Archives at the Swiss National Library in Bern, Switzerland.[60] Her Swiss publisher, Diogenes Verlag, was appointed literary executor of the estate.[61]

Religious, racial and ethnic views

Highsmith was a resolute atheist.[62] Although she considered herself a liberal, and in her school years had gotten along with black students,[63] in later years she believed that black people were responsible for the welfare crisis in America.[64]: 19  She disliked Koreans because "they ate dogs".[56]

Highsmith was an avowed antisemite; she described herself as a "Jew hater" and described The Holocaust as "the semicaust".[65] When she was living in Switzerland in the 1980s, she used nearly 40 aliases when writing to government bodies and newspapers deploring the state of Israel and the "influence" of the Jews.[66] Highsmith was an active supporter of Palestinian rights, a stance which, according to Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy, "often teetered into outright antisemitism."[67]

Politics

Highsmith described herself as a social democrat.[56] She believed in American democratic ideals and in "the promise" of U.S. history, but was also highly critical of the reality of the country's 20th-century culture and foreign policy.[citation needed] Beginning in 1963, she resided exclusively in Europe.[7] She retained her United States citizenship, despite the tax penalties, of which she complained bitterly while living for many years in France and Switzerland.[citation needed]

Palestine

Highsmith aligned herself with writers such as Gore Vidal, Alexander Cockburn, Noam Chomsky and Edward Said in supporting Palestinian self-determination.[64] As a member of Amnesty International, she felt duty-bound to express publicly her opposition to the displacement of Palestinians.[64]: 429  Highsmith prohibited her books from being published in Israel after the election of Menachem Begin as prime minister in 1977.[64]: 431  She dedicated her 1983 novel People Who Knock on the Door to the Palestinian people:

To the courage of the Palestinian people and their leaders in the struggle to regain a part of their homeland. This book has nothing to do with their problem.

The inscription was dropped from the U.S. edition with permission from her agent but without consent from Highsmith.[64]: 418 

Highsmith contributed financially to the Jewish Committee on the Middle East, an organization that represented American Jews who supported Palestinian self-determination.[64]: 430  She wrote in an August 1993 letter to Marijane Meaker: "USA could save 11 million per day if they would cut the dough to Israel. The Jewish vote is 1%."[68]

Writing history

Comic books

After graduating from Barnard College, before her short stories started appearing in print, Highsmith wrote for comic book publishers from 1942 and 1948, while she lived in New York City and Mexico. Answering an ad for "reporter/rewrite", she landed a job working for comic book publisher Ned Pines in a "bullpen" with four artists and three other writers. Initially scripting two comic-book stories a day for $55-a-week paychecks, Highsmith soon realized she could make more money by freelance writing for comics, a situation which enabled her to find time to work on her own short stories and live for a period in Mexico. The comic book scriptwriter job was the only long-term job Highsmith ever held.[7]

From 1942 to 1943, for the Sangor–Pines shop (Better/Cinema/Pines/Standard/Nedor), Highsmith wrote "Sergeant Bill King" stories, contributed to Black Terror and Fighting Yank comics, and wrote profiles such as Catherine the Great, Barney Ross, and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker for the "Real Life Comics" series. From 1943 to 1946, under editor Vincent Fago at Timely Comics, she contributed to its U.S.A. Comics wartime series, writing scenarios for comics such as Jap Buster Johnson and The Destroyer. During these same years she wrote for Fawcett Publications, scripting for Fawcett Comics characters "Crisco and Jasper" and others.[69] Highsmith also wrote for True Comics, Captain Midnight, and Western Comics.[70]

When Highsmith wrote the psychological thriller novel The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), one of the title character's first victims is a comic-book artist named Reddington: "Tom had a hunch about Reddington. He was a comic-book artist. He probably didn't know whether he was coming or going."[71]

Early novels and short stories

Highsmith's first novel, Strangers on a Train, proved modestly successful upon publication in 1950, and Alfred Hitchcock's 1951 film adaptation of the novel enhanced her reputation.

How was it possible to be afraid and in love, Therese thought. The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

–The Price of Salt, chapter eighteen (Coward-McCann, 1952)

Highsmith's second novel, The Price of Salt, was published in 1952 under the pen name Claire Morgan.[72] Highsmith mined her personal life for the novel's content.[45] Its groundbreaking happy ending[5][f] and departure from stereotypical conceptions about lesbians made it stand out in lesbian fiction.[73] In what BBC 2's The Late Show presenter Sarah Dunant described as a "literary coming out" after 38 years of disaffirmation,[74] Highsmith finally acknowledged authorship of the novel publicly when she agreed to the 1990 publication by Bloomsbury retitled Carol. Highsmith wrote in the "Afterword" to the new edition:

If I were to write a novel about a lesbian relationship, would I then be labelled a lesbian-book writer? That was a possibility, even though I might never be inspired to write another such book in my life. So I decided to offer the book under another name.
The appeal of The Price of Salt was that it had a happy ending for its two main characters, or at least they were going to try to have a future together. Prior to this book, homosexuals male and female in American novels had had to pay for their deviation by cutting their wrists, drowning themselves in a swimming pool, or by switching to heterosexuality (so it was stated), or by collapsing – alone and miserable and shunned – into a depression equal to hell.[75]

The paperback version of the novel sold nearly one million copies before its 1990 reissue as Carol.[76] The Price of Salt is distinct for also being the only one of Highsmith's novels in which no violent crime takes place,[47] and where her characters have "more explicit sexual existences" and are allowed "to find happiness in their relationship."[2]

Her short stories appeared for the first time in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in the early 1950s.

Her last novel, Small g: a Summer Idyll, was rejected by Knopf (her usual publisher by then) several months before her death,[77] leaving Highsmith without an American publisher.[61] It was published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing in March 1995,[78] and nine years later in the United States by W. W. Norton.[79]

The "Ripliad"

In 1955, Highsmith wrote The Talented Mr. Ripley, a novel about Tom Ripley, a charming criminal who murders a rich man and steals his identity. Highsmith wrote four sequels: Ripley Under Ground (1970), Ripley's Game (1974), The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980) and Ripley Under Water (1991), about Ripley's exploits as a con artist and serial killer who always gets away with his crimes. The series—collectively called "The Ripliad"—are some of Highsmith's most popular works.

The "suave, agreeable and utterly amoral" Ripley is Highsmith's most famous character, and has been critically acclaimed for being "both a likable character and a cold-blooded killer."[80] He has typically been regarded as "cultivated", a "dapper sociopath", and an "agreeable and urbane psychopath."[81]

Sam Jordison of The Guardian wrote, "It is near impossible, I would say, not to root for Tom Ripley. Not to like him. Not, on some level, to want him to win. Patricia Highsmith does a fine job of ensuring he wheedles his way into our sympathies."[82] Film critic Roger Ebert made a similar appraisal of the character in his review of Purple Noon, René Clément's 1960 film adaptation of The Talented Mr. Ripley: "Ripley is a criminal of intelligence and cunning who gets away with murder. He's charming and literate, and a monster. It's insidious, the way Highsmith seduces us into identifying with him and sharing his selfishness; Ripley believes that getting his own way is worth whatever price anyone else might have to pay. We all have a little of that in us."[83] Novelist Sarah Waters esteemed The Talented Mr. Ripley as the "one book I wish I'd written."[84]

The first three books of the "Ripley" series have been adapted into films five times. In 2015, The Hollywood Reporter announced that a group of production companies were planning a television series based on the novels.[85] The series is currently in development.[86]

Honors

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Main article: Patricia Highsmith bibliography

Novels

The "Ripliad"

Film, television, theatre and radio adaptations

 
Highsmith discussing murder on British television programme After Dark (June 1988)

Several of Highsmith's works have been adapted for other media, some more than once.[92][93][94] In 1978, Highsmith was president of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.[7][95]

Film

"Ripliad"

Television

Theatre

Radio

  • 2002. A four-episode radio drama of The Cry of the Owl was broadcast by BBC Radio 4, with voice acting by John Sharian as Robert Forester, Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, and Matt Rippy as Jack Neilsen.[105]
  • 2009. All five books of the "Ripliad" were dramatized by BBC Radio 4, with Ian Hart voicing Tom Ripley.[106]
  • 2014. A five-segment dramatization of Carol (aka The Price of Salt) was broadcast by BBC Radio 4, with voice acting by Miranda Richardson as Carol Aird and Andrea Deck as Therese Belivet.[107]
  • 2019. A five-episode broadcast of selected short stories (One for the Islands, A Curious Suicide, The Terrors of Basket-Weaving, The Man Who Wrote Books In His Head, The Baby Spoon) by BBC Radio 4.[108]

Novels, films and plays about Highsmith

Novels
  • Dawson, Jill (2016). The Crime Writer. Sceptre. ISBN 978-1444731118.[109]
Films
Plays
Graphic Novels
  • Ellis, Grace; Templer, Hannah (2022). Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith (1st ed.). New York: Abrams ComicArts. ISBN 978-1419744334.

See also

  • Ruth Rendell: A "mistress of suspense" contemporary of Highsmith for whom Highsmith acknowledged rarely admitted admiration. Rendell explored characters and themes similar to Highsmith's.[114][115]

Notes

  1. ^ Highsmith wrote in her "Diary 8" on June 17, 1948: "What is so impossible, is that the male face doesn't attract me, isn't beautiful to me. Though I can imagine a familiarity with a man, which would ... allow us to work and make us happy—and certainly sane ... [t]he question is, whether men alone, their selves, don't get unbearably boring?"[36]
  2. ^ The character of Carol Aird and much of the plot of The Price of Salt was inspired by Highsmith's former lovers Kathryn Hamill Cohen and Philadelphia socialite Virginia Kent Catherwood,[41][12][44] and her relationships with them.[45][46] Catherwood lost custody of her daughter in divorce proceedings that involved tape-recorded lesbian trysts in hotel rooms.[47]
  3. ^ Meaker recalled: "[Patricia] was a wonderful, giving, funny person when I [first] met her. I can always remember her smile and her laughter because that was so much a part of her. But when she came back she was despicable. I couldn't believe her hatred for blacks, for Jews in particular, but even for gay people. She hated everybody."[52]
  4. ^ "Carol Aird" is the upper-class, married woman going through a difficult divorce in Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt.
  5. ^ During her lifetime, Highsmith supported Yaddo with contributions she preferred to keep anonymous. One of these gifts created an endowed fund to underwrite an annual residency for a young creative artist working in any medium. At her request the residency is now known as the "Patricia Highsmith-Plangman Residency".[59]
  6. ^ Marijane Meaker (who wrote lesbian pulp fiction novels under the pseudonyms of "Ann Aldrich" and "Vin Packer") stated in her memoir: "[The Price of Salt] was for many years the only lesbian novel, in either hard or soft cover, with a happy ending."[5]

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Further reading

  • Dirda, Michael (July 2, 2009). This Woman Is Dangerous. The New York Review of Books. Retrieved October 6, 2015.
  • Dupont, Joan (June 12, 1988). Criminal Pursuits. The New York Times. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
  • Helmore, Edward (October 26, 2019). Diaries expose ‘strong brew’ of Ripley novelist Patricia Highsmith's dark thoughts. The Guardian. Retrieved November 21, 2019.
  • McCann, Sean (April 1, 2011). “Frequently as a rat has orgasms”. New York City in the '40s, Wesleyan University. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
  • Morgan, Kim (December 4, 2015). The Gnarly Allure of Patricia Highsmith. The Daily Beast. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  • Perrin, Tom (December 18, 2012). On Patricia Highsmith. Post45 (Yale University). Retrieved March 12, 2016.
  • Piepenbring, Dan (January 19, 2015). A Dissatisfaction with Life. The Paris Review. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  • Rayner, Richard (July 17, 2011). Paperback Writers: Classic Patricia Highsmith. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 18, 2016.
  • Schenkar, Joan (January 21, 2012). . Joan Schenkar. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  • Schenkar, Joan (February 25, 2016). What Patricia Highsmith did for love: 'The Price of Salt' and the secrets behind 'Carol'. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  • Shipley, Diane (April 1, 2014). Patricia Highsmith's criminal neglect. The Guardian. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  • Siegel, Ed (July 4, 2004). "In her novels, Patricia Highsmith compellingly charts gay sensibility". The Boston Globe. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
  • Smith, Nathan (November 19, 2015). When Patricia Highsmith Offered Gay Readers a Hopeful Ending. The New Republic. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
  • Tonkin, Boyd (December 7, 2015). 'Carol', Patricia Highsmith, and how gay literature found its voice in the 1950s. The Independent. Retrieved March 5, 2016.
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patricia, highsmith, january, 1921, february, 1995, american, novelist, short, story, writer, widely, known, psychological, thrillers, including, series, five, novels, featuring, character, ripley, publicity, photo, from, 1962bornmary, patricia, plangman, 1921. Patricia Highsmith January 19 1921 February 4 1995 1 was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley Patricia HighsmithPublicity photo from 1962BornMary Patricia Plangman 1921 01 19 January 19 1921Fort Worth Texas U S DiedFebruary 4 1995 1995 02 04 aged 74 Locarno Ticino SwitzerlandPen nameClaire Morgan 1952 OccupationNovelist short story writerLanguageEnglishEducationJulia Richman High SchoolAlma materBarnard College BA Period1942 1995GenreSuspense psychological thriller crime fiction romanceLiterary movementModernist literatureNotable worksStrangers on a Train The Price of Salt a k a Carol The Blunderer The Talented Mr Ripley Deep Water The Cry of the OwlSignatureShe wrote 22 novels and numerous short stories throughout her career spanning nearly five decades and her work has led to more than two dozen film adaptations Her writing derived influence from existentialist literature 2 and questioned notions of identity and popular morality 3 She was dubbed the poet of apprehension by novelist Graham Greene 4 Her first novel Strangers on a Train has been adapted for stage and screen the best known being the 1951 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock Her 1955 novel The Talented Mr Ripley has been adapted for film multiple times Writing under the pseudonym Claire Morgan Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending The Price of Salt 5 in 1952 republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film Contents 1 Early life 2 Personal life 2 1 Sexuality 2 2 Death 3 Religious racial and ethnic views 4 Politics 4 1 Palestine 5 Writing history 5 1 Comic books 5 2 Early novels and short stories 5 3 The Ripliad 6 Honors 6 1 Awards and nominations 7 Bibliography 7 1 Novels 8 Film television theatre and radio adaptations 8 1 Film 8 1 1 Ripliad 8 2 Television 8 3 Theatre 8 4 Radio 9 Novels films and plays about Highsmith 10 See also 11 Notes 12 References 13 Further reading 14 External links 14 1 Audio interviewsEarly life EditHighsmith was born Mary Patricia Plangman in Fort Worth Texas She was the only child of artists Jay Bernard Plangman 1889 1975 who was of German descent 6 and Mary Plangman nee Coates September 13 1895 March 12 1991 The couple divorced ten days before their daughter s birth 7 In 1927 Highsmith her mother and her adoptive stepfather artist Stanley Highsmith whom her mother had married in 1924 moved to New York City 7 When she was 12 years old Highsmith was sent to Fort Worth and lived with her maternal grandmother for a year citation needed She called this the saddest year of her life and felt abandoned by her mother She returned to New York to continue living with her mother and stepfather primarily in Manhattan but also in Astoria Queens According to Highsmith her mother once told her that she had tried to abort her by drinking turpentine 8 although a biography of Highsmith indicates Jay Plangman tried to persuade his wife to have the abortion but she refused 7 Highsmith never resolved this love hate relationship which reportedly haunted her for the rest of her life and which she fictionalized in The Terrapin her short story about a young boy who stabs his mother to death 7 Highsmith s mother predeceased her by only four years dying at the age of 95 8 Highsmith s grandmother taught her to read at an early age and she made good use of her grandmother s extensive library At the age of nine she found a resemblance to her own imaginative life in the case histories of The Human Mind by Karl Menninger a popularizer of Freudian analysis 7 Many of Highsmith s 22 novels were set in Greenwich Village 9 where she lived at 48 Grove Street from 1940 to 1942 before moving to 345 E 57th Street citation needed In 1942 Highsmith graduated from Barnard College where she studied English composition playwriting and short story prose 7 After graduating from college and despite endorsements from highly placed professionals 10 she applied without success for a job at publications such as Harper s Bazaar Vogue Mademoiselle Good Housekeeping Time Fortune and The New Yorker 11 Based on the recommendation from Truman Capote Highsmith was accepted by the Yaddo artist s retreat during the summer of 1948 where she worked on her first novel Strangers on a Train 12 13 Personal life EditHighsmith endured cycles of depression some of them deep throughout her life Despite literary success she wrote in her diary of January 1970 I am now cynical fairly rich lonely depressed and totally pessimistic 14 Over the years Highsmith had female hormone deficiency anorexia nervosa 15 chronic anemia Buerger s disease and lung cancer 16 To all the devils lusts passions greeds envys loves hates strange desires enemies ghostly and real the army of memories with which I do battle may they never give me peace Patricia Highsmith My New Year s Toast journal entry 1947 17 According to her biographer Andrew Wilson Highsmith s personal life was a troubled one She was an alcoholic who allegedly never had an intimate relationship that lasted for more than a few years and she was seen by some of her contemporaries and acquaintances as misanthropic and hostile 18 Her chronic alcoholism intensified as she grew older 19 20 She famously preferred the company of animals to that of people and stated in a 1991 interview I choose to live alone because my imagination functions better when I don t have to speak with people 21 Otto Penzler her U S publisher through his Penzler Books imprint 22 had met Highsmith in 1983 and four years later witnessed some of her theatrics intended to create havoc at dinner tables and shipwreck an evening 23 He said after her death that Highsmith was a mean cruel hard unlovable unloving human being I could never penetrate how any human being could be that relentlessly ugly But her books Brilliant 24 Other friends publishers and acquaintances held different views of Highsmith Editor Gary Fisketjon who published her later novels through Knopf said that She was very rough very difficult But she was also plainspoken dryly funny and great fun to be around 24 Composer David Diamond met Highsmith in 1943 and described her as being quite a depressed person and I think people explain her by pulling out traits like cold and reserved when in fact it all came from depression 25 J G Ballard said of Highsmith The author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr Ripley was every bit as deviant and quirky as her mischievous heroes and didn t seem to mind if everyone knew it 26 Screenwriter Phyllis Nagy who adapted The Price of Salt into the 2015 film Carol met Highsmith in 1987 and the two remained friends for the rest of Highsmith s life 27 Nagy said that Highsmith was very sweet and encouraging to her as a young writer as well as wonderfully funny 28 29 She was considered by some as a lesbian with a misogynist streak 30 Highsmith loved cats and she bred about three hundred snails in her garden at home in Suffolk England 31 Highsmith once attended a London cocktail party with a gigantic handbag that contained a head of lettuce and a hundred snails which she said were her companions for the evening 31 She loved woodworking tools and made several pieces of furniture Highsmith worked without stopping In later life she became stooped with an osteoporotic hump 7 Though the 22 novels and 8 books of short stories she wrote were highly acclaimed especially outside of the United States Highsmith preferred her personal life to remain private 32 A lifelong diarist Highsmith left behind eight thousand pages of handwritten notebooks and diaries 33 345 E 57th Street NYC Residence of Patricia Highsmith Sexuality Edit As an adult Patricia Highsmith s sexual relationships were predominantly with women 34 35 She occasionally engaged in sex with men without physical desire for them and wrote in her diary The male face doesn t attract me isn t beautiful to me 36 a She told writer Marijane Meaker in the late 1950s that she had tried to like men I like most men better than I like women but not in bed 37 In a 1970 letter to her stepfather Stanley Highsmith described sexual encounters with men as steel wool in the face a sensation of being raped in the wrong place leading to a sensation of having to have pretty soon a boewl sic movement stressing If these words are unpleasant to read I can assure you it is a little more unpleasant in bed 34 Phyllis Nagy described Highsmith as a lesbian who did not very much enjoy being around other women and the few sexual dalliances she had had with men occurred just to see if she could be into men in that way because she so much more preferred their company 27 In 1943 Highsmith had an affair with artist Allela Cornell who despondent over unrequited love from another woman died by suicide in 1946 by drinking nitric acid 12 During her stay at Yaddo Highsmith met writer Marc Brandel son of author J D Beresford 34 Even though she told him about her homosexuality 34 they soon entered into a short lived relationship 38 He convinced her to visit him in Provincetown Massachusetts where he introduced her to Ann Smith a painter and designer with a previous metier as a Vogue fashion model and the two became involved 34 After Smith left Provincetown Highsmith felt she was in prison with Brandel and told him she was leaving B ecause of that I have to sleep with him and only the fact that it is the last night strengthens me to bear it Highsmith who had never been sexually exclusive with Brandel resented having sex with him 39 Highsmith temporarily broke off the relationship with Brandel and continued to be involved with several women reuniting with him after the well received publication of his new novel Beginning November 30 1948 and continuing for the next six months Highsmith underwent psychoanalysis in an effort to regularize herself sexually so she could marry Brandel The analysis was brought to a stop by Highsmith after which she ended her relationship with him 39 After ending her engagement to Marc Brandel she had an affair with psychoanalyst Kathryn Hamill Cohen the wife of British publisher Dennis Cohen and founder of Cresset Press which later published Strangers on a Train 40 41 To help pay for the twice a week therapy sessions Highsmith had taken a sales job during Christmas rush season in the toy section of Bloomingdale s department store 39 Ironically it was during this attempt to cure her homosexuality that Highsmith was inspired to write her semi autobiographical novel The Price of Salt in which two women meet in a department store and begin a passionate affair 42 43 b Believing that Brandel s disclosure that she was homosexual along with the publication of The Price of Salt would hurt her professionally Highsmith had an unsuccessful affair with Arthur Koestler in 1950 designed to hide her homosexuality 48 49 In early September 1951 she began an affair with sociologist Ellen Blumenthal Hill traveling back and forth to Europe to meet with her 7 When Highsmith and Hill came to New York in early May 1953 their affair ostensibly in a fragile state Highsmith began an impossible affair with the homosexual German photographer Rolf Tietgens who had played a sporadic intense and unconsummated role in her emotional life since 1943 7 She was reportedly attracted to Tietgens on account of his homosexuality confiding that she felt with him as if he is another girl or a singularly innocent man Tietgens shot several nude photographs of Highsmith but only one has survived torn in half at the waist so that only her upper body is visible 50 7 She dedicated The Two Faces of January 1964 to Tietgens Between 1959 and 1961 Highsmith was in love with author Marijane Meaker 51 52 Meaker wrote lesbian stories under the pseudonym Ann Aldrich and mystery suspense fiction as Vin Packer and later wrote young adult fiction as M E Kerr 52 In the late 1980s after 27 years of separation Highsmith began corresponding with Meaker again and one day showed up on Meaker s doorstep slightly drunk and ranting bitterly Meaker later said she was horrified at how Highsmith s personality had changed c Highsmith was attracted to women of privilege who expected their lovers to treat them with veneration 53 According to Phyllis Nagy she belonged to a very particular subset of lesbians and described her conduct with many women she was interested in as being comparable to a movie studio boss who chased starlets Many of these women who to some extent belonged to the Carol Aird type d and her social set remained friendly with Highsmith and confirmed the stories of seduction 27 An intensely private person Highsmith was remarkably open and outspoken about her sexuality 32 34 She told Meaker the only difference between us and heterosexuals is what we do in bed 54 Death Edit Highsmith died on February 4 1995 at 74 from a combination of aplastic anemia and lung cancer at Carita Hospital in Locarno Switzerland near the village where she had lived since 1982 She was cremated at the cemetery in Bellinzona a memorial service was conducted in the Chiesa di Tegna in Tegna Ticino Switzerland and her ashes were interred in its columbarium 55 56 57 58 She left her estate worth an estimated 3 million and the promise of any future royalties to the Yaddo colony where she spent two months in 1948 writing the draft of Strangers on a Train 34 e Highsmith bequeathed her literary estate to the Swiss Literary Archives at the Swiss National Library in Bern Switzerland 60 Her Swiss publisher Diogenes Verlag was appointed literary executor of the estate 61 Religious racial and ethnic views EditHighsmith was a resolute atheist 62 Although she considered herself a liberal and in her school years had gotten along with black students 63 in later years she believed that black people were responsible for the welfare crisis in America 64 19 She disliked Koreans because they ate dogs 56 Highsmith was an avowed antisemite she described herself as a Jew hater and described The Holocaust as the semicaust 65 When she was living in Switzerland in the 1980s she used nearly 40 aliases when writing to government bodies and newspapers deploring the state of Israel and the influence of the Jews 66 Highsmith was an active supporter of Palestinian rights a stance which according to Carol screenwriter Phyllis Nagy often teetered into outright antisemitism 67 Politics EditHighsmith described herself as a social democrat 56 She believed in American democratic ideals and in the promise of U S history but was also highly critical of the reality of the country s 20th century culture and foreign policy citation needed Beginning in 1963 she resided exclusively in Europe 7 She retained her United States citizenship despite the tax penalties of which she complained bitterly while living for many years in France and Switzerland citation needed Palestine Edit Highsmith aligned herself with writers such as Gore Vidal Alexander Cockburn Noam Chomsky and Edward Said in supporting Palestinian self determination 64 As a member of Amnesty International she felt duty bound to express publicly her opposition to the displacement of Palestinians 64 429 Highsmith prohibited her books from being published in Israel after the election of Menachem Begin as prime minister in 1977 64 431 She dedicated her 1983 novel People Who Knock on the Door to the Palestinian people To the courage of the Palestinian people and their leaders in the struggle to regain a part of their homeland This book has nothing to do with their problem The inscription was dropped from the U S edition with permission from her agent but without consent from Highsmith 64 418 Highsmith contributed financially to the Jewish Committee on the Middle East an organization that represented American Jews who supported Palestinian self determination 64 430 She wrote in an August 1993 letter to Marijane Meaker USA could save 11 million per day if they would cut the dough to Israel The Jewish vote is 1 68 Writing history EditComic books Edit After graduating from Barnard College before her short stories started appearing in print Highsmith wrote for comic book publishers from 1942 and 1948 while she lived in New York City and Mexico Answering an ad for reporter rewrite she landed a job working for comic book publisher Ned Pines in a bullpen with four artists and three other writers Initially scripting two comic book stories a day for 55 a week paychecks Highsmith soon realized she could make more money by freelance writing for comics a situation which enabled her to find time to work on her own short stories and live for a period in Mexico The comic book scriptwriter job was the only long term job Highsmith ever held 7 From 1942 to 1943 for the Sangor Pines shop Better Cinema Pines Standard Nedor Highsmith wrote Sergeant Bill King stories contributed to Black Terror and Fighting Yank comics and wrote profiles such as Catherine the Great Barney Ross and Capt Eddie Rickenbacker for the Real Life Comics series From 1943 to 1946 under editor Vincent Fago at Timely Comics she contributed to its U S A Comics wartime series writing scenarios for comics such as Jap Buster Johnson and The Destroyer During these same years she wrote for Fawcett Publications scripting for Fawcett Comics characters Crisco and Jasper and others 69 Highsmith also wrote for True Comics Captain Midnight and Western Comics 70 When Highsmith wrote the psychological thriller novel The Talented Mr Ripley 1955 one of the title character s first victims is a comic book artist named Reddington Tom had a hunch about Reddington He was a comic book artist He probably didn t know whether he was coming or going 71 Early novels and short stories Edit Highsmith s first novel Strangers on a Train proved modestly successful upon publication in 1950 and Alfred Hitchcock s 1951 film adaptation of the novel enhanced her reputation How was it possible to be afraid and in love Therese thought The two things did not go together How was it possible to be afraid when the two of them grew stronger together every day And every night Every night was different and every morning Together they possessed a miracle The Price of Salt chapter eighteen Coward McCann 1952 Highsmith s second novel The Price of Salt was published in 1952 under the pen name Claire Morgan 72 Highsmith mined her personal life for the novel s content 45 Its groundbreaking happy ending 5 f and departure from stereotypical conceptions about lesbians made it stand out in lesbian fiction 73 In what BBC 2 s The Late Show presenter Sarah Dunant described as a literary coming out after 38 years of disaffirmation 74 Highsmith finally acknowledged authorship of the novel publicly when she agreed to the 1990 publication by Bloomsbury retitled Carol Highsmith wrote in the Afterword to the new edition If I were to write a novel about a lesbian relationship would I then be labelled a lesbian book writer That was a possibility even though I might never be inspired to write another such book in my life So I decided to offer the book under another name The appeal of The Price of Salt was that it had a happy ending for its two main characters or at least they were going to try to have a future together Prior to this book homosexuals male and female in American novels had had to pay for their deviation by cutting their wrists drowning themselves in a swimming pool or by switching to heterosexuality so it was stated or by collapsing alone and miserable and shunned into a depression equal to hell 75 The paperback version of the novel sold nearly one million copies before its 1990 reissue as Carol 76 The Price of Salt is distinct for also being the only one of Highsmith s novels in which no violent crime takes place 47 and where her characters have more explicit sexual existences and are allowed to find happiness in their relationship 2 Her short stories appeared for the first time in Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine in the early 1950s Her last novel Small g a Summer Idyll was rejected by Knopf her usual publisher by then several months before her death 77 leaving Highsmith without an American publisher 61 It was published posthumously in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing in March 1995 78 and nine years later in the United States by W W Norton 79 The Ripliad Edit In 1955 Highsmith wrote The Talented Mr Ripley a novel about Tom Ripley a charming criminal who murders a rich man and steals his identity Highsmith wrote four sequels Ripley Under Ground 1970 Ripley s Game 1974 The Boy Who Followed Ripley 1980 and Ripley Under Water 1991 about Ripley s exploits as a con artist and serial killer who always gets away with his crimes The series collectively called The Ripliad are some of Highsmith s most popular works The suave agreeable and utterly amoral Ripley is Highsmith s most famous character and has been critically acclaimed for being both a likable character and a cold blooded killer 80 He has typically been regarded as cultivated a dapper sociopath and an agreeable and urbane psychopath 81 Sam Jordison of The Guardian wrote It is near impossible I would say not to root for Tom Ripley Not to like him Not on some level to want him to win Patricia Highsmith does a fine job of ensuring he wheedles his way into our sympathies 82 Film critic Roger Ebert made a similar appraisal of the character in his review of Purple Noon Rene Clement s 1960 film adaptation of The Talented Mr Ripley Ripley is a criminal of intelligence and cunning who gets away with murder He s charming and literate and a monster It s insidious the way Highsmith seduces us into identifying with him and sharing his selfishness Ripley believes that getting his own way is worth whatever price anyone else might have to pay We all have a little of that in us 83 Novelist Sarah Waters esteemed The Talented Mr Ripley as the one book I wish I d written 84 The first three books of the Ripley series have been adapted into films five times In 2015 The Hollywood Reporter announced that a group of production companies were planning a television series based on the novels 85 The series is currently in development 86 Honors Edit1979 Grand Master Swedish Crime Writers Academy 1987 Prix litteraire Lucien Barriere fr Festival du Cinema Americain de Deauville 87 1989 Chevalier dans l Ordre des Arts et des Lettres French Ministry of Culture 1993 Best Foreign Literary Award Finnish Crime Society 88 2008 Greatest Crime Writer The Times 89 Awards and nominations Edit 1946 O Henry Award Best First Story for The Heroine in Harper s Bazaar 1951 Nominee Edgar Allan Poe Award Best First Novel Mystery Writers of America for Strangers on a Train 90 1956 Edgar Allan Poe Scroll special award Mystery Writers of America for The Talented Mr Ripley 1957 Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere International for The Talented Mr Ripley 1963 Nominee Edgar Allan Poe Award Best Short Story Mystery Writers of America for The Terrapin in Ellery Queen s Mystery Magazine 1963 Special Award Mystery Writers of America for The Terrapin 1964 Silver Dagger Award Best Foreign Novel Crime Writers Association for The Two Faces of January pub Heinemann 91 1975 Prix de l Humour noir Xavier Forneret fr for L Amateur d escargots pub Calmann Levy English title Eleven Bibliography EditMain article Patricia Highsmith bibliography Novels Edit Strangers on a Train 1950 The Price of Salt 1952 as Claire Morgan republished as Carol in 1990 under Highsmith s name The Blunderer 1954 Deep Water 1957 A Game for the Living 1958 This Sweet Sickness 1960 The Cry of the Owl 1962 The Two Faces of January 1964 The Glass Cell 1964 A Suspension of Mercy 1965 published as The Story Teller in the U S Those Who Walk Away 1967 The Tremor of Forgery 1969 A Dog s Ransom 1972 Edith s Diary 1977 People Who Knock on the Door 1983 Found in the Street 1986 Small g a Summer Idyll 1995 The Ripliad The Talented Mr Ripley 1955 Ripley Under Ground 1970 Ripley s Game 1974 The Boy Who Followed Ripley 1980 Ripley Under Water 1991 Film television theatre and radio adaptations Edit Highsmith discussing murder on British television programme After Dark June 1988 Several of Highsmith s works have been adapted for other media some more than once 92 93 94 In 1978 Highsmith was president of the jury at the 28th Berlin International Film Festival 7 95 Film Edit 1951 Strangers on a Train was adapted as a film of same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock starring Farley Granger as Guy Haines Robert Walker as Anthony Bruno Ruth Roman as Anne Morton Patricia Hitchcock as Barbara Morton and Laura Elliott as Miriam Joyce Haines 1963 The Blunderer was adapted as French language film Le meurtrier The Murderer directed by Claude Autant Lara starring Maurice Ronet as Walter Saccard Yvonne Furneaux as Clara Saccard Gert Frobe as Melchior Kimmel Marina Vlady as Ellie and Robert Hossein as Corbi It is known in English as Enough Rope 1969 Strangers on a Train was adapted as Once You Kiss a Stranger directed by Robert Sparr starring Paul Burke as Jerry Carol Lynley as Diana and Martha Hyer as Lee 1977 This Sweet Sickness was adapted as French language film Dites lui que je l aime directed by Claude Miller starring Gerard Depardieu as David Martineau Miou Miou as Juliette Dominique Laffin as Lise and Jacques Denis as Gerard Dutilleux It is known in English as This Sweet Sickness 1978 The Glass Cell was adapted as German language film Die glaserne Zelle directed by Hans W Geissendorfer starring Brigitte Fossey as Lisa Braun Helmut Griem as Phillip Braun Dieter Laser as David Reinelt and Walter Kohut as Robert Lasky 1981 Deep Water was adapted as French language film Eaux profondes directed by Michel Deville starring Isabelle Huppert as Melanie and Jean Louis Trintignant as Vic Allen 1983 Edith s Diary was adapted as German language film Ediths Tagebuch directed by Hans W Geissendorfer starring Angela Winkler as Edith 1986 The Two Faces of January was adapted as German language film Die zwei Gesichter des Januars directed by Wolfgang Storch starring Charles Brauer as Chester McFarland Yolanda Jilot as Colette McFarland and Thomas Schucke as Rydal Keener 1987 The Cry of the Owl was adapted as French language film Le cri du hibou directed by Claude Chabrol starring Christophe Malavoy as Robert Mathilda May as Juliette Jacques Penot as Patrick and Virginie Thevenet as Veronique 1987 The film version of Strangers on a Train by Alfred Hitchcock inspired the black comedy American film Throw Momma from the Train directed by Danny DeVito 1989 A Suspension of Mercy aka The Story Teller was adapted as German language film Der Geschichtenerzahler directed by Rainer Boldt starring Udo Schenk as Nico Thomkins and Anke Sevenich as Helen Thomkins 2009 The Cry of the Owl was adapted as a film of same name directed by Jamie Thraves starring Paddy Considine as Robert Forester and Julia Stiles as Jenny Thierolf 2014 The Two Faces of January was adapted as a film of same name written and directed by Hossein Amini starring Viggo Mortensen as Chester MacFarland Kirsten Dunst as Colette MacFarland and Oscar Isaac as Rydal It was released during the 64th Berlin International Film Festival 2014 A Mighty Nice Man was adapted as a short film directed by Jonathan Dee starring Kylie McVey as Charlotte Jacqueline Baum as Emilie Kristen Connolly as Charlotte s Mother and Billy Magnussen as Robbie 2015 A film adaption of The Price of Salt titled Carol was written by Phyllis Nagy and directed by Todd Haynes starring Cate Blanchett as Carol Aird and Rooney Mara as Therese Belivet 2016 The Blunderer was adapted as A Kind of Murder directed by Andy Goddard starring Patrick Wilson as Walter Stackhouse Jessica Biel as Clara Stackhouse Eddie Marsan as Marty Kimmel and Haley Bennett as Ellie Briess 2022 Deep Water was adapted again directed by Adrian Lyne starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas Ripliad Edit 1960 The Talented Mr Ripley was adapted as French language film Plein soleil titled Purple Noon for English language audiences though it translates as Full Sun 96 Directed by Rene Clement starring Alain Delon as Tom Ripley Maurice Ronet as Philippe Greenleaf and Marie Laforet as Marge Duval Both Highsmith and film critic Roger Ebert criticized the screenplay for altering the ending to prevent Ripley from going unpunished as he does in the novel 3 83 1977 Ripley s Game third novel and a plot fragment of Ripley Under Ground second novel were adapted as German language film Der Amerikanische Freund The American Friend Directed by Wim Wenders with Dennis Hopper as Ripley Highsmith initially disliked the film but later found it stylish although she did not like how Ripley was interpreted 97 1999 The Talented Mr Ripley was adapted as an American production Directed by Anthony Minghella with Matt Damon as Ripley Jude Law as Dickie Greenleaf and Gwyneth Paltrow as Marge Sherwood 2002 Ripley s Game was adapted as a film of same name for an English language Italian production Directed by Liliana Cavani with John Malkovich as Ripley Chiara Caselli as Luisa Harari Ripley Ray Winstone as Reeves Minot Dougray Scott as Jonathan Trevanny and Lena Headey as Sarah Trevanny Although not all reviews were favorable Roger Ebert regarded it as the best of all the Ripley films 98 2005 Ripley Under Ground was adapted as a film of same name Directed by Roger Spottiswoode with Barry Pepper as Ripley Jacinda Barrett as Heloise Plisson Ripley Willem Dafoe as Neil Murchison and Tom Wilkinson as John Webster 2020 Ripley upcoming American television series by Showtime Directed by Steven Zaillian starring Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley 99 Television Edit 1958 Strangers on a Train was adapted by Warner Brothers for an episode of the TV series 77 Sunset Strip 1982 Scenes from the Ripley novels were dramatized in the episode A Gift for Murder of The South Bank Show with Jonathan Kent portraying Tom Ripley The episode included an interview with Patricia Highsmith 100 1983 Deep Water was adapted as a two part miniseries for German television as Tiefe Wasser directed by Franz Peter Wirth starring Peter Bongartz as Vic van Allen Constanze Engelbrecht as Melinda van Allen Reinhard Glemnitz as Dirk Weisberg Raimund Harmstorf as Anton Kameter and Sky du Mont as Charley de Lisle 101 102 1987 The Cry of the Owl was adapted for German television as Der Schrei der Eule directed by Tom Toelle starring Matthias Habich as Robert Forster Birgit Doll as Johanna Tierolf Jacques Breuer as Karl Weick Fritz Lichtenhahn as Inspektor Lippenholtz and Doris Kunstmann as Vicky 1990 The twelve episodes of the television series Mistress of Suspense are based on stories by Highsmith The series aired first in France then in the UK It became available in the U S under the title Chillers citation needed 1993 The Tremor of Forgery was adapted as German television film Trip nach Tunis directed by Peter Goedel starring David Hunt as Howard Ingham Karen Sillas as Ina Pallant and John Seitz as Francis J Adams 1995 Little Tales of Misogyny was adapted as Spanish Catalan television film Petits contes misogins directed by Pere Sagrista starring Marta Perez Carme Pla Mamen Duch and Miriam Iscla 1996 Strangers on a Train was adapted for television as Once You Meet a Stranger directed by Tommy Lee Wallace starring Jacqueline Bisset as Sheila Gaines Guy Theresa Russell as Margo Anthony Bruno and Celeste Holm as Clara The gender of the two lead characters was changed from male to female 1996 A Dog s Ransom was adapted as French television film La rancon du chien directed by Peter Kassovitz starring Francois Negret as Cesar Francois Perrot as Edouard Raynaud Daniel Prevost as Max Ducasse and Charlotte Valandrey as Sophie Theatre Edit 1998 The Talented Mr Ripley was adapted for the stage as a play of same name by playwright Phyllis Nagy 103 It was revived in 2010 104 2013 Strangers on a Train was adapted as a play of same name by playwright Craig Warner Radio Edit 2002 A four episode radio drama of The Cry of the Owl was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 with voice acting by John Sharian as Robert Forester Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop and Matt Rippy as Jack Neilsen 105 2009 All five books of the Ripliad were dramatized by BBC Radio 4 with Ian Hart voicing Tom Ripley 106 2014 A five segment dramatization of Carol aka The Price of Salt was broadcast by BBC Radio 4 with voice acting by Miranda Richardson as Carol Aird and Andrea Deck as Therese Belivet 107 2019 A five episode broadcast of selected short stories One for the Islands A Curious Suicide The Terrors of Basket Weaving The Man Who Wrote Books In His Head The Baby Spoon by BBC Radio 4 108 Novels films and plays about Highsmith EditNovelsDawson Jill 2016 The Crime Writer Sceptre ISBN 978 1444731118 109 FilmsHighsmith Her Secret Life 2004 made for television documentary by Hugh Thomson BBC Four Highsmith Her Secret Life notes on the film Hugh Thomson BBC 2004 Loving Highsmith 2022 theatrical documentary by Eva Vitija Ensemble Film GmbH 110 111 PlaysMurray Smith Joanna 2015 Switzerland Dramatists Play Service ISBN 978 0 8222 3435 7 112 First presented at Sydney Theatre Company in November 2014 113 Graphic NovelsEllis Grace Templer Hannah 2022 Flung Out of Space Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith 1st ed New York Abrams ComicArts ISBN 978 1419744334 See also EditRuth Rendell A mistress of suspense contemporary of Highsmith for whom Highsmith acknowledged rarely admitted admiration Rendell explored characters and themes similar to Highsmith s 114 115 Notes Edit Highsmith wrote in her Diary 8 on June 17 1948 What is so impossible is that the male face doesn t attract me isn t beautiful to me Though I can imagine a familiarity with a man which would allow us to work and make us happy and certainly sane t he question is whether men alone their selves don t get unbearably boring 36 The character of Carol Aird and much of the plot of The Price of Salt was inspired by Highsmith s former lovers Kathryn Hamill Cohen and Philadelphia socialite Virginia Kent Catherwood 41 12 44 and her relationships with them 45 46 Catherwood lost custody of her daughter in divorce proceedings that involved tape recorded lesbian trysts in hotel rooms 47 Meaker recalled Patricia was a wonderful giving funny person when I first met her I can always remember her smile and her laughter because that was so much a part of her But when she came back she was despicable I couldn t believe her hatred for blacks for Jews in particular but even for gay people She hated everybody 52 Carol Aird is the upper class married woman going through a difficult divorce in Highsmith s novel The Price of Salt During her lifetime Highsmith supported Yaddo with contributions she preferred to keep anonymous One of these gifts created an endowed fund to underwrite an annual residency for a young creative artist working in any medium At her request the residency is now known as the Patricia Highsmith Plangman Residency 59 Marijane Meaker who wrote lesbian pulp fiction novels under the pseudonyms of Ann Aldrich and Vin Packer stated in her memoir The Price of Salt was for many years the only lesbian novel in either hard or soft cover with a happy ending 5 References Edit Mary P Highsmith FamilySearch The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints From the United States Social Security Administration Death Master File a b Shore Robert January 7 2000 The talented Ms Highsmith The Guardian Retrieved March 29 2017 a b Wilson Andrew May 24 2003 Ripley s enduring allure The Daily Telegraph Archived from the original on October 7 2015 Retrieved October 6 2015 a href Template Cite news html title Template Cite news cite news a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Highsmith Patricia 1970 Foreword Eleven 1st ed William 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Works BBC Radio 4 December 2019 Retrieved October 9 2020 Dawson Jill 2016 The Crime Writer Hodder amp Stoughton Archived from the original on March 28 2017 Retrieved March 28 2017 Loving Highsmith Ticino Film Commission 2022 Retrieved September 20 2022 Loving Highsmith PDF Zeitgeist Films 2022 Retrieved September 20 2022 Murray Smith Joanna 2015 Switzerland Dramatists Play Service Retrieved March 28 2017 Switzerland Sydney Theatre Company 2014 Archived from the original on October 21 2014 Retrieved March 28 2017 Peters Fiona 2011 Anxiety and Evil in the Writings of Patricia Highsmith Ashgate Publishing pp 17 18 ISBN 978 1 4094 2334 8 Hillerman Tony Herbert Rosemary eds 2005 A New Omnibus of Crime Oxford University Press p 194 ISBN 978 0 19 518214 9 Further reading EditDirda Michael July 2 2009 This Woman Is Dangerous The New York Review of Books Retrieved October 6 2015 Dupont Joan June 12 1988 Criminal Pursuits The New York Times Retrieved March 28 2017 Helmore Edward October 26 2019 Diaries expose strong brew of Ripley novelist Patricia Highsmith s dark thoughts The Guardian Retrieved November 21 2019 McCann Sean April 1 2011 Frequently as a rat has orgasms New York City in the 40s Wesleyan University Retrieved December 29 2015 Morgan Kim December 4 2015 The Gnarly Allure of Patricia Highsmith The Daily Beast Retrieved March 5 2016 Perrin Tom December 18 2012 On Patricia Highsmith Post45 Yale University Retrieved March 12 2016 Piepenbring Dan January 19 2015 A Dissatisfaction with Life The Paris Review Retrieved March 5 2016 Rayner Richard July 17 2011 Paperback Writers Classic Patricia Highsmith Los Angeles Times Retrieved March 18 2016 Schenkar Joan January 21 2012 The Talented Miss Highsmith The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith Joan Schenkar Retrieved March 5 2016 Schenkar Joan February 25 2016 What Patricia Highsmith did for love The Price of Salt and the secrets behind Carol Los Angeles Times Retrieved March 5 2016 Shipley Diane April 1 2014 Patricia Highsmith s criminal neglect The Guardian Retrieved March 5 2016 Siegel Ed July 4 2004 In her novels Patricia Highsmith compellingly charts gay sensibility The Boston Globe Retrieved April 12 2016 Smith Nathan November 19 2015 When Patricia Highsmith Offered Gay Readers a Hopeful Ending The New Republic Retrieved March 5 2016 Tonkin Boyd December 7 2015 Carol Patricia Highsmith and how gay literature found its voice in the 1950s The Independent Retrieved March 5 2016 BooksBradford Richard 2021 Devils Lusts and Strange Desires The Life of Patricia Highsmith 1st ed London England Bloomsbury Caravel ISBN 978 1448217908 Harrison Russell 1997 Patricia Highsmith Twayne s United States Authors Series No 683 1st ed New York Twayne Publishers ISBN 0 8057 4566 1 Rzepka Charles J Horsley Lee eds 2010 A Companion to Crime Fiction John Wiley amp Sons pp 6 40 41 84 160 162 193 194 503 509 ISBN 978 1444317923 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith Papers Swiss Literary Archives Swiss National Library 2006 Patricia Highsmith Exhibition of the Swiss National Library March September 2006 Swiss National Library March 13 2006 Patricia Highsmith photographs from the exhibition Swiss Literary Archives Swiss National Library December 1 2006 archive Choose Your Highsmith The Patricia Highsmith Recommendation Engine W W Norton amp Company Patricia Highsmith First Edition Book Cover Gallery UK publishers Existential Ennui 2013 Patricia Highsmith gallery by Rene Burri Magnum Photos 1988 Patricia Highsmith interview by Naim Attallah Naim Attallah Online Quartet Books 1993 Works by or about Patricia Highsmith in libraries WorldCat catalog Patricia Highsmith at IMDbAudio interviews Edit Patricia Highsmith on Audio Interviews Thrillers and Crime Fiction BBC Four December 3 1972 archive Patricia Highsmith interview with Roy Plomley Desert Island Discs BBC Radio 4 April 21 1979 Patricia Highsmith interview The Black House with Peter Clayton Meridian BBC World Service August 8 1980 Patricia Highsmith interview with Terry Gross Fresh Air NPR October 27 1987 Patricia Highsmith interview with Don Swaim Book Beat WCBS Radio via Wired for Books Ohio University October 29 1987 archive Page will play audio when loaded Patricia Highsmith In Conversation with Michael Dibdin ICA talks Institute of Contemporary Arts September 27 1991 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Patricia Highsmith amp oldid 1137579531, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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