Description
Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt is now a major motion picture (Carol) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes
A 2010 New York Times Notable BookA 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner
A 2009 Edgar Award Nominee
A 2009 Agatha Award Nominee
A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite hero-criminal, the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, Strangers on a Train, to her long, strange self-exile in Europe. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and an erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. The Talented Miss Highsmith is the first literary biography with access to Highsmith's whole story: her closest friends, her oeuvre, her archives. It's a compulsive page-turner unlike any other, a book worthy of Highsmith herself.
Author: Joan Schenkar
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 01/04/2011
Pages: 704
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.80w x 2.00d
ISBN13: 9780312363819
ISBN10: 0312363818
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Criticism | Mystery & Detective Fiction
About the Author
Joan Schenkar (1942-2021) was a playwright of experimental works and the renowned biographer of Patricia Highsmith, the controversial author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Dolly Wilde, Oscar Wilde's niece. Her books include the Lambda Literary Award Winner, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, and a collection of plays, Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace.