Author Patricia Highsmith never urged readers to sympathize with her character Tom Ripley; instead, she dared them to enjoy ...

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Read up on the latest Purple Noon News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom ...

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was the author largely of books ubiquitously described as psychological thrillers, but the adjective is doing much more work than it usually does in such descriptions.

Tom Ripley is a charming sociopath who inspires both love and loathing in The Talented Mr. Ripley, the first of the five-book Ripliad series. Patricia Highsmith’s most notorious character, a nefarious ...