Schenkar, Joan <br/><br/>
The talented Miss Highsmith  : the secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith 
 Secret life and serious art of Patricia Highsmith 
/ Joan Schenkar 
 - New York  : Picador St. Martin's Press  , 2011, c2009. 
 - xx, 684 p., [16] p. of plates  : ill., map  ; 25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [657]-660). 
<br/><br/>A Note on Biography--How to Begin--A Simple Act of Forgery--La Mamma--Greek Games--Alter Ego--Social Studies--Les Girls--The Real Romance of Objects--The Cake That Was Shaped Like a Coffin--Acknowledgments--Appendix 1 Just the Facts--Appendix 2 Patricia Highsmith's New York--Appendix 3 Charts, Maps, Diagrams, and Plans--Notes and Sources--Selected Bibliography    Index 
<br/><br/> 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 revolution ary 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780312363819 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009018363 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Highsmith, Patricia (, 1921-1995) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mexican American Authors----Biography<br/>Bisexuals----United States----Biography
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3558.I366  / Z87 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 HIG