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Patricia Highsmith
1921–1995·American
Patricia Highsmith was an American novelist and short story writer born on January 19, 1921, in Fort Worth, Texas, best known for her psychologically tense crime fiction. She created the enduring antihero Tom Ripley across five novels, and her debut thriller Strangers on a Train was famously adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Highsmith lived much of her adult life in Europe and died in Locarno, Switzerland on February 4, 1995, leaving behind a body of work that reshaped the psychological thriller genre.
