The Talented Miss Highsmith
THE biography catching reviewers’ attention this month is Joan Schenkar’s The Talented Miss Highsmith.
Highsmith’s books have had an enduring appeal, but were brought to a greater audience through recent movies based on the Ripliad, five novels featuring the charming sociopath Tom Ripley.
In the Washington Post, Jonatham Lethem’s review of the bio. is not as laudatory as others have been. Instead, he encourages readers to turn to the novels themselves.
As Lethem says, “The antidote to literary biography is literature.”
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The following are the Highsmith titles that Lethem recommends.
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