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Patricia Highsmith, born Mary Patricia Plangman in Texas, attended Barnard College in New York and graduated in 1942.
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She moved to Europe after a period of travel in the late 1940s. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, a psychological thriller about two ostensibly very different men sharing a train journey, was published in 1950. The work was adapted for film only a year later, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by Raymond Chandler and Czenzi Ormonde.
Highsmith published her novel The Price of Salt, which describes an affair between a younger woman and an older one, under the pseudonym Claire Morgan in 1952.
In 1955, Highsmith published her most famous work, The Talented Mr.
Ripley, which focuses on a manipulative, murderous protagonist who assumes the identity of his victims. The book would be the first in a five-part series, accompanied by Ripley Under Ground (1970), Ripley’s Game (1974), Th