Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine, having decided to become a writer at the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train, was made into a famous film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno, Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.
Genres: Mystery
Series
Ripley
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
2. Ripley Under Ground (1970)
3. Ripley's Game (1974)
4. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980)
5. Ripley Under Water (1991)
1. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955)
2. Ripley Under Ground (1970)
3. Ripley's Game (1974)
4. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (1980)
5. Ripley Under Water (1991)
Novels
Strangers On a Train (1950)
The Price of Salt (1952) (as by Clare Morgan)
aka Carol
The Blunderer (1954)
Deep Water (1957)
A Game for the Living (1958)
This Sweet Sickness (1960)
The Cry of the Owl (1962)
The Two Faces of January (1964)
The Glass Cell (1964)
A Suspension of Mercy (1965)
Those Who Walk Away (1967)
The Tremor of Forgery (1969)
A Dog's Ransom (1972)
Edith's Diary (1977)
People Who Knock On the Door (1983)
Found in the Street (1986)
Small G (1995)
The Price of Salt (1952) (as by Clare Morgan)
aka Carol
The Blunderer (1954)
Deep Water (1957)
A Game for the Living (1958)
This Sweet Sickness (1960)
The Cry of the Owl (1962)
The Two Faces of January (1964)
The Glass Cell (1964)
A Suspension of Mercy (1965)
Those Who Walk Away (1967)
The Tremor of Forgery (1969)
A Dog's Ransom (1972)
Edith's Diary (1977)
People Who Knock On the Door (1983)
Found in the Street (1986)
Small G (1995)
Omnibus
Little Tales of Misogyny / Mermaids on the Golf Course (2008)
Women Crime Writers (2015) (with Charlotte Armstrong, Dolores Hitchens and Margaret Millar)
Women Crime Writers (2015) (with Charlotte Armstrong, Dolores Hitchens and Margaret Millar)
Collections
Eleven (1970)
aka The Snail Watcher and Other Stories
Little Tales of Misogyny (1974)
The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975)
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (1979)
The Black House (1981)
Mermaids on the Golf Course (1985)
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987)
Tales of Obsession (1994) (with Joan Hess, Evan Hunter, P D James, Cynthia Manson, Nancy Pickard, Ruth Rendell and Lawrence Treat)
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997) (with David Goodis, Chester Himes, Robert Polito, Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford)
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2001)
Nothing That Meets the Eye (2002)
The Highsmith Reader (2010)
Under a Dark Angel's Eye (2021)
aka The Snail Watcher and Other Stories
Little Tales of Misogyny (1974)
The Animal Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (1975)
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (1979)
The Black House (1981)
Mermaids on the Golf Course (1985)
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (1987)
Tales of Obsession (1994) (with Joan Hess, Evan Hunter, P D James, Cynthia Manson, Nancy Pickard, Ruth Rendell and Lawrence Treat)
Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997) (with David Goodis, Chester Himes, Robert Polito, Jim Thompson and Charles Willeford)
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (2001)
Nothing That Meets the Eye (2002)
The Highsmith Reader (2010)
Under a Dark Angel's Eye (2021)
Non fiction
Anthologies containing stories by Patricia Highsmith
The 7th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1966)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1971)
The 12th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1971)
A Book of Contemporary Nightmares (1977)
The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1977)
The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1983)
The 17th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1984)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
Beyond the Curtain of Dark (1966)
The 6th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1971)
The 12th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1971)
A Book of Contemporary Nightmares (1977)
The 18th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1977)
The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1983)
The 17th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1984)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Realms of Darkness (1985)
Mistresses of the Dark (1998)
Short stories
The Bravest Rat in Venice | |||
The Day of Reckoning | |||
Harry: A Ferret | |||
The Snail Watcher | |||
Woodrow Wilson's Neck-Tie | |||
The Terrapin (1962) | |||
The Quest For Blank Claveringi (1964) | |||
Please Don't Shoot the Trees (1976) | |||
The Pond (1976) | |||
Moby Dick II; or The Missile Whale (1987) | |||
The Mysterious Cemetery (1987) | |||
Nabuti: Warm Welcome to a UN Committee (1987) | |||
No End in Sight (1987) | |||
Operation Balsam; or Touch-Me-Not (1987) | |||
President Buck Jones Rallies and Waves the Flag (1987) | |||
Rent-a-Womb vs. The Mighty Right (1987) | |||
Sixtus VI, Pope of the Red Slipper (1987) | |||
Sweet Freedom! and a Picnic on the White House Lawn (1987) | |||
Trouble at the Jade Towers (1987) |
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