{"product_id":"the-talented-miss-highsmith-the-secret-life-and-serious-art-of-patricia-highsmith-9780312363819","title":"The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePatricia Highsmith's \u003ci\u003eThe Price of Salt\u003c\/i\u003e is now a major motion picture\u003ci\u003e (Carol\u003c\/i\u003e) starring Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, directed by Todd Hayes \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 2010 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2010 Lambda Literary Award Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2009 Edgar Award Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2009 Agatha Award Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Pick of the Week \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePatricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite \"hero-criminal,\" the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, \u003ci\u003eStrangers on a Train, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 an erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list. \u003ci\u003eThe Talented Miss Highsmith\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoan Schenkar\u003c\/b\u003e (1942-2021) was a playwright of experimental works and the renowned biographer of Patricia Highsmith, the controversial author of \u003ci\u003eThe Talented Mr. Ripley\u003c\/i\u003e, and Dolly Wilde, Oscar Wilde's niece. Her books include the Lambda Literary Award Winner, \u003ci\u003eThe Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTruly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde\u003c\/i\u003e, and a collection of plays, \u003ci\u003eSigns of Life: 6 Comedies of Menace\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50543547089170,"sku":"9780312363819","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4bdf8000-b59d-44ba-afdf-03a80ed42cad.jpg?v=1731511211","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-talented-miss-highsmith-the-secret-life-and-serious-art-of-patricia-highsmith-9780312363819","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}