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Apr 3, 2024 · A name associated with charm, sexiness and murder, and a character largely made famous by Matt Damon’s portrayal in the cult-hit 1999 film, The Talented Mr Ripley. But the origins for the iconic story go back to 1955, when Patricia Highsmith first imagined the figure in her series the Ripliad.
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Mar 31, 2024 · Patricia Highsmith set the blueprint for the modern psychological thriller. As Andrew Scott takes on the role of her most famous antihero Tom Ripley in a new Netflix series, Katie Rosseinsky...
Apr 3, 2024 · Born in 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas, Highsmith was the unwanted child of an absent father and a resentful mother whose DIY turpentine abortion had failed. She remarried when her only...
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Tom Ripley is a fictional character in the Ripley series of crime novels by American novelist Patricia Highsmith, as well as several film adaptations. He is a psychopathic career criminal, con artist, and serial killer.
Apr 19, 2021 · Who was Patricia Highsmith? Most answers warrant a rebuttal. The writer was a collision of contradictions, a woman for whom every aspect of herself (including being a woman) demanded internal...
Jan 18, 2021 · Patricia Highsmith, the doyenne of the psychological suspense novel, was born in Texas one hundred years ago this January. Her five Ripley thrillers – the so-called “Ripliad” – are among the most...
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The Talented Mr. Ripley is a 1955 psychological thriller novel by Patricia Highsmith. The novel introduced the character of con man Tom Ripley, whom Highsmith wrote about in four subsequent books.
