Andrew Wilson's biography of Patricia Highsmith is an engaging read from start to finish. He pays his subject the compliment of using prose as clear as her own to tell her story. Highsmith was a devoted diarist, letter writer, and keeper of detailed notebooks of all her background writing work. A...
Andrew Wilson is the author of a highly renowned biography of Patricia Highsmith and THE LYING TONGUE is his début novel. In an interesting move the author starts his first novel with the comment "This is not the book I wanted to write. This is not how it was supposed to be at all." All I can say...
She would stay in Europe for the next two years, flitting between London, Paris, Venice, Florence, Rome, Salzburg and Munich. Like her character Tom Ripley, whom she would create three years later, she had no permanent address and was forced to pick up her mail from American Express offices. She ...