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Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a tangle of contradictions.

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Ripley’s creator at 100 A poisonous person, Patricia Highsmith was an enduring writer She looked into the gulf of mystery that separates people—and bridged it P ATRICIA HIGHSMITH had a thing for snails. She admired their self-sufficiency and found it “relaxing” to watch them copulate, delighted by the impossibility of distinguishing male from female. She collected them for decades, keeping hundreds at home and scores in her handbag, which she let loose when bored at dinner parties. Her affection for snails was matched by her ambivalence towards people, whom she often found baffling an...

Book World: Patricia Highsmith's sordid search for inspiration Wendy Smith, The Washington Post Jan. 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Richard Bradford - - - Patricia Highsmith is a tricky subject for biography, though British academic Richard Bradford is the third in 18 years to try. Tricky, because Highsmith's behavior could be as creepy and unsettling as that of the protagonists in her most famous novels, "Strangers on a Train" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley." She liked to seduce married women or lesbians in committed relationships, and she was flagrantly unfaithful to all her lovers. She wa...