In June 1952 – two years before she started to write The Talented Mr Ripley – Patricia Highsmith had a dream about killing someone. In her nightmare, she was setting fire to a girl who ...

As we near the 25th anniversary of the acclaimed Oscar-nominated big screen adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's most infamous creation, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Netflix has released a striking new ...

Literary critic Terry Castle says most people know Patricia Highsmith's writing through screen adaptations, but her original stories are even more chilling and compelling. "The main characters do ...

“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 statemen ...

Patricia Highsmith was an American author who specialized in psychological thrillers and dark character studies. She ...

Documentary filmmaker Eva Vitija remembers being struck by the idea of Patricia Highsmith when Vitija’s parents described the famous writer who lived alone with her cats in Tegna, the Swiss town ...

So you can believe Otto Penzler, of Penzler Books in the U.S., when he said of his protegee, the hugely popular American novelist Patricia Highsmith: ‘She was a mean, cruel, hard, unlovable ...

In The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith brought to life one of the most enduring antiheroes readers will come across. As he affords himself a life of luxury by murdering and conning his way ...

The best moments in Patricia Highsmith’s novels are the ones in which we see quick flashes of her protagonists’ interiority, before they reset the masks they’re inevitably presenting to the ...

A reimagining of the life of renowned queer author Patricia Highsmith isn’t a tale of admiration or condemnation, but one about the complex nature of womanhood. Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer ...

Eva Vitija didn’t want her documentary on Patricia Highsmith to turn into a parade of literary experts and bibliophiles analyzing her work. The Swiss filmmaker knew her portrait of the famed ...