Patricia Highsmith
Mary Patricia Plangman
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Raised in New York after an early relocation from Texas, she attended Barnard College where she refined her writing through English literature, playwriting and short-story courses. Her breakthrough arrived with the novel that inspired Alfred Hitchcock’s 1951 film, and the subsequent Ripley series secured her reputation as a master of psychological suspense, leading to more than two dozen cinematic…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources