Patricia Highsmith: The Complete Short Stories: A Virago Modern Classic

About Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (1921-1995) was born in Fort Worth Texas. Her first novel Strangers on a Train was made into a classic film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. The Talented Mr Ripley published in 1955 introduced the fascinating anti-hero Tom Ripley and was made into an Oscar-winning film in 1999 by Anthony Minghella. Graham Greene called Patricia Highsmith 'the poet of apprehension' saying that she 'created a world of her own - a world claustrophobic and irrational which we enter each time with a sense of personal danger'. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno Switzerland in February 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously the same year.