Links:

    -WIKIPEDIA: Patricia Highsmith
    -EXCERPT: ‘Avoid sadists!’: Patricia Highsmith on sex, women and writing Mr Ripley: An extract from the author’s fascinating diaries reveals her innermost thoughts and feelings (The Guardian, 11/12/21)
    -EXCERPTS: A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Woman: The author’s diaries and notebooks chart her early work and love life. (Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker)
    -SHORT STORY: The World's Champion Ball-Bouncer by Patricia Highsmith – a brilliant story unseen for 73 years: In this previously uncollected short story by The Talented Mr Ripley author, a young girl struggles to adjust to life in New York (Patricia Highsmith, 9 Jan 2021, The Guardian)
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    -ESSAY: Illustrating Patricia Highsmith’s Literary Career: From Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer’s Graphic Novel (Grace Ellis and Hannah Temper, 4/25/22, LitHub)
    -ESSAY: Bed-hopping, martinis and self-loathing: inside Patricia Highsmith’s unpublished diaries: From her carefree 20s and countless affairs, to literary success and later-life bigotry and rancour, the author’s extraordinary diaries reveal a woman determined to chart her own course (Emma Brockes, 13 Nov 2021, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Patricia Highsmith’s Two Severed Hands (R.T. Raichev, March 7, 2024, Something is going to Happen)
    -ESSAY: The Talented Mr. Ripley And The American In Fiction (DEREK NEAL, 4/03/22, 3Quarks) by Derek Neal
    -REVIEW ESSAY: The Mystery of Patricia Highsmith’s Diaries: What made her so interested in cold-blooded, apparently motiveless killers? (Benjamin Kunkel /November 8, 2021, New Republic)
    -ARCHIVES: Read the earliest reviews of The Talented Mr. Ripley, which turns 65 today (Book Marks, November 30, 2020)
    -ESSAY: Twisted brilliance: Patricia Highsmith at 100: Forbidden desires, strange obsessions and a singular talent for suspense (Carmen Maria Machado, 9 Jan 2021, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: PAULA HAWKINS ON PATRICIA HIGHSMITH'S STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, 70 YEARS LATER: The author of The Girl on the Train appreciates Highsmith's uniquely sickening vision of humanity. (PAULA HAWKINS, 1/20/21, Crime Reads)
    -ESSAY: A singular traveller: Patricia Highsmith at 100 (Alex Clark, 1/20/21, TLS)
    -ESSAY: PATRICIA HIGHSMITH AND THE WOMEN WHO INSPIRED RIPLEY: In 1950, Highsmith went to Positano with a glamorous, wealthy young Londoner. A year later, she traveled there again, with a new companion, at the tail end of a manic journey across Europe. (RICHARD BRADFORD, 1/19/21, Crime Reads)
    -ESSAY: Patricia Highsmith’s Confessions and Rebellions at Yaddo: Richard Bradford on Strange Times at the Legendary Writers’ Retreat (Richard Bradford, January 19, 2021, Lit Hub)
    -ESSAY: Peculiar world of a singular talent: Highsmith was a great writer, with a moral vision bracing enough to clarify the terrors of the twentieth century(Christopher Bray, Jan/Feb 2021, The Critic)
    -REVIEW: of Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford (Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW: of Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires (Independent ie)
    -ESSAY: Patricia Highsmith at 100: the best film adaptations: Shape-shifting Tom Ripley, ill-met strangers on a train… cinema’s love affair with Highsmith’s thrillers was immediate, and shows no signs of cooling off (Guy Lodge, Sat 16 Jan 2021, The Guardian)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: Patricia Highsmith at 100: How the author’s chilling stories of murder have fascinated filmmakers for decades: Highsmith’s murderous con artist in The Talented Mr Ripley has become so well-known that he is often a point of reference for any real-life killers with a smattering of charm. As we enter the centenary of the writer’s birth, Geoffrey Macnab dissects the many film adaptations of her books (Geoffrey McNab, 1/01/21, Independent)
    -REVIEW ESSAY: THE CREEPIEST: John Malkovich as Tom Ripley (ANTHONY LANE, 2004-02-09, The New Yorker)
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    -REVIEW: of Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks, 1941–1995 by Patricia Highsmith (Benjamin Kunkel, New Republic)
    -REVIEW: of Diaries (Natasha Cooper, TLS)
    -REVIEW: of Carol by Patricia Highsmith (Charles J. Rolo, The New York Times, May 18, 1952)
    -REVIEW: of Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford (Scott Bradfield, The Spectator)
    -REVIEW: of Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires (Bob Duffy, Washington Independent Review of Books)
    -REVIEW: of Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires (Brooke Allen, New Criterion)
    -REVIEW: of Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires (Daphne Wright, TLS)
    -REVIEW: Of Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks (Pat Padua, Spectrum Culture)

FILM:

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    -FILM REVIEW: Loving Highsmith (Christopher Reed, Hammer to Nail)
    -FILM REVIEW: Loving Highsmith (OLIVIA RUTIGLIANO, Crime Reads)
    -FILM REVIEW: Was Patricia Highsmith Actually a Hopeless Romantic?: The documentary ‘Loving Highsmith’ presents a new side of the enigmatic crime writer (Ella Feldman, September 7, 2022, Smithsonian)