Birthday of sophisticated thriller author, Patricia Highsmith: Jan 19, 1921 - 1995…
Highsmith’s highly charged psychological novels transcend the thriller genre and reinvigorate with their queer overtones and influences from dark masters such as Kafka and Dostoevski.
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace.” ― Patricia Highsmith (New Year’s Eve, 1947)
Photo: Mark Gerson, June 1983 - modern bromide print (NPG)
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