Highsmith, Patricia
Highsmith, Patricia ( 1921 – 95 ),writer of mixed German and English–Scots parentage, educated at Barnard College at Columbia University, New York. Her stylish crime novels have a distinctively black humour: the best known (The Talented Mr Ripley, 1956 ; Ripley under Ground, 1971 ; Ripley's Game, 1974 , etc.) feature her amoral anti-hero, the leisure-loving amateur villain Tom Ripley, resident in France. The Price of Salt, a novel with a lesbian theme and a happy ending, was published pseudonymously (under the name of Claire Morgan ) in 1952 , and appeared under her own name in 1990 , retitled Carol. Her last novel, Small g: A Summer Idyll, about a bohemian café in Zurich, was published in 1995 .
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