Birthday Centric: Patricia Highsmith

Born the same day as Edgar Allan Poe, Patricia Highsmith made a career of writing creepy stories.  Strangers On A Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley are two of her works.  If you want to know a bit about her there's a good article about the Ripley collection and Highsmith at the NY Times.  Quick read it before SOPA kicks my butt. 

What we like best about Highsmith is that in 1954 she published the lesbian novel The Price of Salt (under the name of Claire Morgan).  It was the first novel of its kind to have a happy ending.  The book sold nearly a million copies when it was published.  Pretty remarkable, right? 

I'm linking to two articles about her that I think shed enough info about her.  The first is from the NY Times and the other is from a Swiss website. 

You can get many of the 22 books she wrote at your local bookstore or library.