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The Many Faces of Patricia Highsmith

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to a virtual conversation about “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” to be led by Edmund White and held on April 22. 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 debate.

In her private life, she swung dramatically between polar states of desire and disgust. Her personal journals that she kept her whole life — separate from what she called her “cahiers,” or notebooks in which she worked on her fiction — reveal a woman at the mercy of her emotional tides, drawn to the.

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