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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Patricia Highsmith''' was a lesbian writer of pulp fiction, best known for crime / suspense / mystery novels. Her stories sometimes included fantastic elements, psychological horror or vaguely supernatural horror. She also wrote for comic books in the 1940s. <br />
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She had relationships with [[Allela Cornell]] (an artist), and [[Marijane Meaker]] (who has written as Vin Packer, Ann Aldrich, and M. E. Kerr). <br />
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Although a lesbian / bisexual, she was sometimes called a misogynist; she was also sometimes called a misanthropist. Highsmith also voiced racist and anti-semitic opinions in her later life. <br />
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==Notable works==<br />
* ''[[Strangers on a Train]]'' (1950) (filmed by [[Alfred Hitchcock]] in 1951)<br />
* ''[[The Price of Salt]]'' (1951, under pseudonym [[Claire Morgan]]; also published as 'Carol'')<br />
* ''[[The Talented Mr. Ripley]]'' (1955) (the first of the "Ripliad", featuring Tom Ripley, an anti-hero con-artist and murderer)<br />
* ''[[Ripley's Game]]'' (1974)<br />
* ''[[Edith's Diary]]'' (1977)<br />
* ''[[Little Tales of Misogyny]]'' (1974 short stories))<br />
* ''[[The Black House]]'' (1981 short stories)<br />
* ''[[Mermaids on the Golf Course]]'' (1985 short stories)<br />
* ''[[Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catatrophes]]'' (1987 short stories)<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Highsmith wikipedia]<br />
* ''[[Beautiful Shadow]]'' (biography)<br />
* ''[[Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s]]'' by [[Marijane Meaker]]<br />
* [[Jeanette Winterson]], [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/books/review/Winterson-t.html "Patricia Highsmith, Hiding in Plain Sight"], ''The New York Times'' (Dec. 20, 2009)<br />
* [[Patricia Cohen]], [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/books/11highsmith.html "The Haunts of Miss Highsmith"], ''New York Times'', Dec. 10, 2009.<br />
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