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About 147 pages (44,223 words) in 24 products |
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Patricia Highsmith | | Birth Date: |
January 19, 1921 | | Death Date: |
February 4, 1995 | | Place of Birth: |
Fort Worth, Texas, United States | | Place of Death: |
Locarno, Switzerland | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
Writer |
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 Biography of Patricia Highsmith
2,392 words, approx. 8 pages
 The author of numerous short story collections and novels, including Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, American-born fiction writer Patricia Highsmith enjoyed greater critical and commercial success in England, France, and Germany than... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Patricia Highsmith Information
1,700 words, approx. 6 pages
 Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995) was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Strangers on a Train has been adapted to the screen three...
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 The Independent - London Obituary: Patricia Highsmith
02/06/1995: 1,001 words, approx. 3 pages Mary Patricia Plangman (Patricia Highsmith), novelist: born Forth Worth, Texas 19 January 1921; died Locarno, Switzerland 4 February 1995. Patricia Highsmith was a crime writer of an unusual kind. Her 20 novels and most of her short stories are about criminals, usually about... summary from source:
The Boston Globe Patricia Highsmith's incomparable chill
10/20/1992: 712 words, approx. 2 pages RIPLEY UNDER WATER By Patricia Highsmith Knopf, 247 pp., $21 Ripley is living the life of Riley on his estate in Villeperce, near Fontainebleau. He must be nearly 60 by now, and he still enjoys the company of his wife, the... summary from source:
 The New York Observer But Where Will the Video Clerks Go?
4/15/2007: 2,644 words, approx. 9 pagesso freshman-year) or grunt their grudging approval for $7.50 an hour, it’s getting harder to find a video-store lifer to break your heart or thrill you by validating your own fine taste. “The video-store clerk is a dying breed in every city,” she...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Kathleen Gregory Klein
11,645 words, approx. 39 pages
In the following essay, Klein provides a stylistic and thematic overview of Highsmith's works, concluding that the writer challenged the conventions of the mystery genre.
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Critical Essay by Erlene Hubly
5,455 words, approx. 18 pages
Hubly is an American educator and critic. In the following essay, she discusses how Highsmith's portrayal of artists in her novels advances such themes as identity, homosexuality, and the real versus the imagined. The critic focuses on the character Sydney Bartleby, the protagonist of A Suspension of Mercy, and Tom Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
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Interview by Patricia Highsmith with Diana Cooper-Clark
5,419 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following interview, which was conducted on August 19, 1980, in Moncourt, France, Highsmith discusses such subjects as the philosophy of criminology, her portrayal of female characters, and critical response to her works.
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