The personal life of the enigmatic lesbian author of thrillers like 'Strangers on a Train' and 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' was shrouded in mystery — until now.
The 999-page volume includes entries from 1941, when Highsmith was a student at Barnard College, to 1995, the year of her death, and gives unprecedented access to one of the 20th century’s most notable and misanthropic writers.
The entries written during Highsmith’s college years and early post-graduate life, from the early- to mid-1940s, are a thrilling combination of whirlwind romances While she has brief affairs with men, they most often seem to be the product of societal and familial pressure rather than actual affection. Instead, the glamorous and heavy-drinking members of a society of older women remain the constant objects of her ever-roaming affections.
“Highsmith siphoned, as directly as a blood donation, the life history and styles of speech of Ginnie Catherwood into a novel unlike any other she would ever write,” Schenkar writes.
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