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Also by Joan Schenkar:

The Talented Miss Highsmith, December 2009
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The Talented Miss Highsmith
Joan Schenkar

The Secret Life And Serious Art Of Patricia Highsmith

St. Martin's Press
December 2009
On Sale: December 8, 2009
Featuring: Patricia Highsmith
704 pages
ISBN: 0312303750
EAN: 9780312303754
Kindle: B003690ME6
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography

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.

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