Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (Fort Worth, Texas, the United States 1921 - Locarno, Swiss 1995) was a known Romancière American especially for its first novel the Unknown of the North-Express train adapted to the cinema by Alfred Hitchcock and its series putting in scene the hero Tom Ripley.

Biography

Mary Patricia Plangman is born the January 19th 1921, with Fort Worth in the Texas. She is raised by her grandmother with New York where she makes her studies (graduate in Latin English, and Greek). Patricia Highsmith is interested in the writing as of adolescence and publishes her first news in 1944 ( Heroin in the magazine Harper' S Bazaar ). She exerts a time the trade of scenario writer of cartoons before harnessing with the drafting of its first novel the Unknown of the North-Express train which is published successfully in 1950. Alfred Hitchcock buys at once of them the rights of film adaptation.

After a novel published under the pseudonym of Claire Morgan ( Carol in 1953), a stay in Europe inspires to him the cruel and mysterious character of Mr Ripley - Romance published in 1955 and one of its greater successes (price of Mystery Writers off America and Grand Prix of police literature as two film adaptations) - key character whom it will re-use in four other novels throughout her career.

It is established then in Europe (initially in England, then the France and the Suisse) where its following books are appreciated than in its country of origin. Its work is composed of a score of novels, a great number of news and a test ( the Art of suspense ). Patricia Highsmith affirmed not to have any particular taste for the Detective novel, lived primarily alone not to be disturbed in her work of writing and appreciated the company of the cats. She died, 74 years old, attack of Leucémie, the February 4th 1995.

Graham Greene of which it was the friend will say of it: " One does not cease reading again it. It created an original world, a world closed, irrational, oppressive where we penetrate only with one personal feeling of danger and almost in spite of us. Because we go ahead of of a pleasure interfered fear. "

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