The Ripliad: A Sexagennial with Patricia Highsmith’s Charming Monster
By David Cranmer
June 8, 2015In 1955, the most notorious of Patricia Highsmith’s creations, Tom Ripley, entered her repertoire. Patricia Highsmith’s (1921–1995) debut novel in 1950 was Strangers on a Train, a critical smash. When Alfred Hitchcock directed the film version a year later, she was catapulted into the upper echelons of undeniable masters of the psychological thriller. Slow, simmering…