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Books by Patricia Highsmith

Patricia Highsmith (1921–1995) was an American novelist and short story writer whose psychological crime fiction defined a genre. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, she spent much of her adult life in Europe. She published 22 novels and numerous short story collections, and her work has been adapted extensively for film, most notably in René Clément's Purple Noon (1960), Wim Wenders's The American Friend (1977), and Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999). Ripley Under Ground is the second of five novels following Tom Ripley, widely considered one of literature's most compelling antiheroes.