![]() ![]() One of the most successful suspense novelists of all time, she came of age as a lesbian in the 1940s, underwent therapy to “cure” her sexuality, and published the iconic queer love story Carol (also known as The Price of Salt) in 1952 under a pseudonym, fearing it would damage her reputation. Highsmith exemplifies a quintessential archetype of today’s online culture: she is the “ problematic fave” par excellence. ![]() Ripley (1999) is now in the limelight herself. The misanthropic writer whose morbid oeuvre provided fodder for classic films like Strangers on a Train (1951) and The Talented Mr. These new additions to the Patriciaverse join a crowded field in the last two decades, a half dozen of her books have been made into movies, and she’s been the subject of three biographies and countless essays. Last year, the writer was cast as the protagonist of a graphic novel, Grace Ellis’s Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith, and a documentary, Eva Vitija’s Loving Highsmith, while Adrian Lyne adapted her 1957 novel Deep Water into a film starring Ben Affleck. “Obsessions,” she wrote, “are the only things that matter.” Now, 80 years later, the iconic suspense novelist has herself become the object of an unhealthy fixation: we are all obsessed with Pat. AT 21 YEARS OLD, Patricia Highsmith put her finger on the theme that would dominate her life’s work. ![]()
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