Highsmith was born Mary Patricia Plangman, in Fort Worth, Texas, on January 19, 1921, 10 days after her parents had divorced.
No one wrote antiheroes like Patricia Highsmith. Take Tom Ripley, the “suave, agreeable, and utterly amoral” conman protagonist of her 1955 thriller The Talented Mr Ripley, who lies, cheats ...
In an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's seminal ... free from the confines of marriage, her husband (Kyle Chandler) begins to question her competence as a mother as her involvement with Therese ...