Her novels have been the subject of more than 20 films: Who is Patricia Highsmith?

Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995) was an American crime writer, best known for her psychological thriller novels, whose novels have been the source of more than 20 films.

Born in Texas in 1921, Patricia Highsmith came to New York with her family at the age of six and was educated there. She decided to become a writer when she was 16. After 1963, she lived in Europe, where she spent the last 12 years of her life in Switzerland, where she died in 1995.

Mary Patricia Plangman was born in Texas on January 19, 1921. She died in Switzerland on February 5, 1995. She was educated at Bernard College and Columbia University in New York. She started writing and getting to know Europe at the age of 16. During the Spanish War and the rise of Nazism, she defined herself as follows: "Politically, I was on the left, I even participated in an antifascist campaign."

Patricia Highsmith (born Mary Patricia Plangman; January 19, 1921 – February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer widely known for her psychological thrillers, including her series of five novels featuring the character Tom Ripley.

While living in England, she wrote her first novel, Strangers on a Train; But the book was not published until 1950, after being rejected by six American publishing houses.

She spent most of her life in European countries, especially France and Switzerland. Graham Greene, who is the person who best identified Patricia Highsmith's place in literature, describes her as follows in his preface to the book The Snail-Watcher:

"She is a poet of anxiety rather than fear. (...) Highsmith is a detective novel writer whose works have been read several times. This is not a common situation. She creates her own universe, a world where irrationality and claustrophobia reign, and with each new novel, we find ourselves threatened by danger. We enter these worlds without realizing we are doing so..."

Highsmith is unsurpassed in creating an atmosphere that is often hopeless, even morbid. People beat each other up against a backdrop of murder.

Although She is generally considered a writer, not a crime novelist, she describes herself - with great modesty - as a "storyteller".

She is an author whose writings frequently appear on the bestseller lists, although she does not take things lightly.

Let's leave the last word to French literature professor and Revolution magazine literary critic Denis Fernandez Recatala: No pity, no anger, no accusation, no message; It's just a work that is extremely consistent, closing in on itself - or opening up. It is flat and transparent, but that's where it gets its secret from.

Ripley Series:

1955 The Talented Mr. Ripley

1970 Ripley Under Ground

1974 Ripley's Game

1980 The Boy Who Followed Ripley

1991 Ripley Under Water

Other Novels:

1950 Strangers on a Train

1952 Carol

1954 The Blunderer

1957 Deep Water

1958 A Game for the Living

1960 This Sweet Sickness

1962 The Cry of the Owl

1964 The Two Faces of January

1964 The Glass Cell

1965 Suspension of Mercy

1967 Those Who Walk Away

1969 The Tremor of Forgery

1972 A Dog's Ransom

1977 Edith's Diary

1983 People Who Knock on the Door

1986 Found in the Street

1995 Small g - a Summer Idyll