The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar
Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite 'hero-criminal', talented Tom Ripley. In this revolutionary biography, Joan Schenkar paints a riveting portrait, from Highsmith's birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strangers On a Train", to her long, strange, self-exile in Europe. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. "The Talented Miss Highsmith" is the first literary biography with access to Highsmith's whole story: her closest friends, her oeuvre, her archives. It's a compulsive page-turner unlike any other, a book worthy of Highsmith herself.
Joan Schenkar is the first writer to grapple with Patricia Highsmith on every level of her being, from her bizarre personal life to her incredibly prolific writing lifeIt's hard to avoid superlatives when describing Schenkar's biography, but there doesn't seem to be any other way to go about it. - Deirdre Bair, author of Samuel Beckett, winner of the National Book Award.
Schenkar, Joan: - Joan Schenkar (1942-2021) was a playwright of experimental works and the renowned biographer of Patricia Highsmith, the controversial author of The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Dolly Wilde, Oscar Wilde's niece. Her books include the Lambda Literary Award Winner, The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith, Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, and a collection of plays, Signs of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780312303754 |
| ISBN 10 | 0312303750 |
| Title | The Talented Miss Highsmith |
| Author | Joan Schenkar |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | St Martin's Press |
| Year published | 2009-12-16 |
| Number of pages | 656 |
| Prizes | Winner of Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Memoir/Biography) 2009, Short-listed for Agatha Awards (Nonfiction) 2009, Short-listed for Anthony Awards (Critical Nonfiction) 2010, Short-listed for Edgar Allan Poe Awards (Critical/Biographical) 2010 |
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