Title: The talented Miss Highsmith
First published: 2009
Description: 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 revolutionary 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.
Subjects: Bisexual women, American Authors, Biography, Women authors, Authors, american, Authors, biography, Bisexuals, United States, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, collection:judy_grahn_award=finalist
LC classification: PS3558.I366 Z87 2009