Biographie de Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1921. Her parents moved to New York when she was six, and she attended the Julia Richmond High School and Barnard College. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided at the age of sixteen to become a writer. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, was made into the famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley, published in 1955, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Scroll by the Mystery Writers of America and introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley, and was filmed by Anthony Minghella.
Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland, in February 1995. Her last novel, Small g ; A Summer Idyll, was published posthumously just over a month later.