6/28/2023 0 Comments Download kathy switzer![]() ![]() Tom Ripley was born in 1954 in the novel The Talented Mr. But her greatest love was her greatest creation. Many were turned off by her however, she managed to have numerous romantic relationships with both men and women. Her childhood was dark and sad she was considered prickly and at times bizarre (one famous story concerns the time she brought a large purse containing a head of lettuce and 100 snails as her “companions” to a cocktail party). Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921, a few days after her parents divorced. Through Ripley, Highsmith explored the dark side of the American dream: ambition un-tempered by morality, the credo of self-invention taken to murderous extremes. Ripley, Highsmith released into the world her favorite creation, the charming conman and murderer Tom Ripley. In a series of novels beginning with The Talented Mr. ![]() Patricia Highsmith may be the one of the greatest writers of the 20th century that most people may have never heard of. ![]()
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