Patricia Highsmith

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    March 1950
  • Latest Book:
    January 2021
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Patricia Highsmith
Born: Mary Patricia Plangman
January 19, 1921
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.

Died: February 4, 1995 (aged 74)
Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland

Pen name Claire Morgan (1952)

Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen, the best known being the 1951 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Her 1955 novel The Talented Mr. Ripley has been adapted for film multiple times. Writing under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, Highsmith published the first lesbian novel with a happy ending, The Price of Salt, in 1952, republished 38 years later as Carol under her own name and later adapted into a 2015 film.

Full Series List in Order

Ripley

1 - The Talented Mr. Ripley (Jan-1955)
2 - Ripley Under Ground (Sep-1992)
3 - Ripley's Game (May-1974)
4 - The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Nov-1993)
5 - Ripley Under Water (Oct-1992)
The Mysterious Mr. Ripley (Aug-1985)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Strangers on a Train

    Two men, strangers, on a train. Both complain about their wives, and a pact is made, for each to kill the other's spouse. The perfect crime...? A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Rip...

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley

    Ripley - 1

    An American classic and the inspiration for the motion picture starring Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow.It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver...

  • Deep Water

    Now a major motion picture starring Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas In Deep Water, set in the quiet, small town of Little Wesley, Patricia Highsmith has created a vicious and suspenseful tale of love gone sour.Vic and Melinda Van Allen's loveless marria...

  • Ripley's Game

    Ripley - 3

    With its sinister humor and genius plotting, Ripley's Game is an enduring portrait of a compulsive, sociopathic American antihero.Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle age, is no longer the ...

  • Edith's Diary

    As Edith Howland's life becomes harsh, her diary entries only become brighter and brighter. She invents a happy life. As she knits for imaginary grandchildren, the real world recedes. Her descent into madness is subtle, appalling, and entirely believ...

  • A Suspension of Mercy

    A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has fin...

  • This Sweet Sickness

    In This Sweet Sickness, Patricia Highsmith, in her own inimitable fashion, has created a complex psychological tale as suspenseful as The Talented Mr. Ripley.David Kelsey, a young scientist, has an unyielding conviction that life will turn out all ri...

  • The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder

    "Grisly and atmospheric…[these] stories feature small worlds of animal amorality in which the sweet taste of revenge leaves no aftertaste of guilt." -- Publishers WeeklyNowhere is Patricia Highsmith's affinity for animals more apparent than in The...

  • Slowly, Slowly In The Wind

    "Highsmith's writing is wicked . . . it puts a spell on you, after which you feel altered, even tainted." -- Entertainment WeeklySlowly, Slowly in the Wind brilliantly assembles many of Patricia Highsmith's most nuanced and psychologically suspensefu...



  • The Mysterious Mr. Ripley

    Ripley

  • The Blunderer

    "Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." -- The New YorkerFor two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She is distant and neuroti...

  • People Who Knock on the Door

    "Highsmith's novels are peerlessly disturbing...bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night." -- The New YorkerWith the savage humor of Evelyn Waugh and the macabre sensibility of Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith brought a distinc...

  • Little Tales of Misogyny

    "These stories, once you get the hang of them, are very wicked, very funny and -- this being Highsmith’s mission in life, as far as one can tell -- very unsettling." -- The GuardianWith an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith turns our next-door n...

  • A Dog's Ransom

    Long out of print, this Highsmith classic resurfaces with a vengeance. The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of this novel that will give dog owners nightmares for years to come. With an eerie simplicity o...

  • The Black House

    "A border zone of the macabre, the disturbing, the not-quite accidental." -- John Gross, New York Times Book ReviewHorrific tragedy becomes disturbingly ordinary in The Black House, a masterful collection of short stories, written during a particula...

  • A Game for the Living

    An “elegant and psychologically sophisticated” novel about two men with a murdered women between them (Cleveland Plain Dealer).Ramón, a devout Catholic, fixes furniture in Mexico City, not far from where he was born into poverty. Theodore, a ric...

  • The Two Faces of January

    The award-winning “classic psychological thriller” by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley (USA Today).   In a grubby Athens hotel, Rydal Keener is bored and killing time with petty scams. But when he runs into anot...

  • Those Who Walk Away

    “Patricia Highsmith’s novels are peerlessly disturbing . . . bad dreams that keep us thrashing for the rest of the night.” -- The New Yorker   Ray Garrett, a wealthy young American living in Europe, is grieving over the dea...

  • The Tremor of Forgery

    An expatriate is beset by dark temptations in this tale by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley: “Her best novel” (The New Yorker).   Set in Tunisia in the mid-1960s, this is the story of Howard Ingham, an American writer who has gone abroa...



  • Mermaids on the Golf Course: Stories

    The great revival of interest in Patricia Highsmith continues with this work that reveals the chilling reality behind the idyllic facade of American suburban life. The stories collected in Mermaids on the Golf Course are among Highsmith's most mature...

  • Found in the Street

    When Ralph Linderman returns a stranger’s wallet he found during a morning stroll through Greenwich Village, he is entirely unprepared for the complex maze of sexual obsession and disturbing psychological intrigue he is about to be drawn into. Patr...

  • Eleven

    Short stories of suspense by the author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley -- “a brilliant collection” with a foreword by Graham Greene (The Sunday Times).   Master of tension Patricia Highsmith is best known for her novels ...

  • The Cry of the Owl

    A man’s obsession with a beautiful woman leads to danger in this psychological thriller by the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Price of Salt.In a small Pennsylvania town, Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of...

  • Carol

    "A great American writer…Highsmith's writing is wicked…it puts a spell on you." -- Entertainment WeeklyNow a major motion picture.Patricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, ...

  • The Price of Salt

    "A great American writer…Highsmith's writing is wicked…it puts a spell on you." -- Entertainment WeeklyPatricia Highsmith's story of romantic obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely unrecognized, novels of the twentieth cen...

  • Ripley Under Ground

    Ripley - 2

    "Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." -- Frank Rich Now part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without rem...

  • Ripley Under Water

    Ripley - 5

    "Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." -- Frank RichNow part of American film and literary lore, Tom Ripley, "a bisexual psychopath and art forger who murders without rem...

  • The Boy Who Followed Ripley

    Ripley - 4

    "Ripley is an unmistakable descendant of Gatsby, that 'penniless young man without a past' who will stop at nothing." -- Frank RichThe Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's darkest and most tw...

  • Tales of the Natural and Unnatural

    The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers "The Talented Mr. Ripley" and "Strangers on a Train," which was made into the classic film by Alfred Hitchcock and Raymond Chandler. A criticall...



  • The Ripley Omnibus

    Three classic crime novels by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time.

     

    Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, Patricia Highsmith's hero, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing--not even mu...

  • The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

    The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith presents five of Highsmith's classic short story collections in a single masterful volume. Compelling, twisted, and fiercely intelligent, this landmark collection showcases Highsmith's mastery of the shor...

  • Nothing That Meets the Eye

    "Highsmith is no more a practitioner of the murder mystery genre...than are Doestoevsky, Faulkner and Camus." -- Joan Smith, Los Angeles Times The Patricia Highsmith renaissance continues with Nothing That Meets the Eye, a brilliant collection of twe...

  • The Glass Cell

    At last back in print, one of Patricia Highsmith's most disturbing works. Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell, first published forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychologica...

  • Small g: A Summer Idyll

    "Like Ripley, [Highsmith's characters] burn in a reader's memory." -- Susan Salters Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review In unmistakable Highsmithian fashion, Small g, Patricia Highsmith's final novel, opens near a seedy Zurich bar with the brutal...

  • Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories

    The remarkable renaissance of Patricia Highsmith continues with the publication of Patricia Highsmith: Selected Novels and Short Stories, featuring two groundbreaking novels as well as a trove of penetrating short stories. With a critical introductio...

  • The Price of Salt by Patricia Highsmith

  • Sour Tales for Sweethearts

    This poisonous little book contains four wicked stories of love gone wrong. Taken from Little Tales of Misogyny, Highsmith's satirical, cultish short-story collection, these dark and often funny sketches reveal how your lover may not always have you...

  • The Price of Salt, or Carol

    An unlikely encounter between Therese, a young sales clerk, and Carol, a lonely homemaker, leads to an amorous romance in this classic work of lesbian fiction. Struggling against the oppressive routines of their daily lives and the strict social n...

  • Under a Dark Angel's Eye



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patricia Highsmith has published 39 books.

Patricia Highsmith does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Under a Dark Angel's Eye, was published in January 2021.

The first book by Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train, was published in March 1950.

Yes. Patricia Highsmith has 1 series.
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