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Joan Schenkar
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A talentosa Highsmith (2012)

How can you resist a biography that begins, "She wasn't nice. She was rarely polite."? Schenkar's book is not hagiography by any means, but it is one of the most incisive, gripping biographies you will read. She makes clear her dislike of her subject again and again: Highsmith was racist, anti-Se...

A talentosa Highsmith (2012) by Joan Schenkar
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The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (2009)

Having read both this and Andrew Wilson's biography of Pat Highsmith, what I came away with was a great compassion for Highsmith. Highsmith, at her core, was a broken person who allowed her demons to get the best of her. The "meanness", anti-social behaviors, alcholism, and odd quirks of her ol...

The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith (2009) by Joan Schenkar
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The Talented Miss Highsmith (2009)

—Caroline Besterman, in conversation with the author I don’t know why I was very fond of Pat, I don’t exactly know why. I was under a spell, like a bird before a snake. —Marion Aboudaram, in conversation with the author Her sexual life was really almost nonexistent. It’s not a good premise for a ...

The Talented Miss Highsmith (2009) by Joan Schenkar

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