What is Patricia Highsmith?
{{unsourced|date=June 2014}} [[Image:Highsmith on After Dark.JPG|thumb|Patricia Highsmith]] '''Patricia Highsmith''' (previously: '''Mary Patricia Plangman'''; 19 January 1921 – 4 February 1995) was an [[Americans|American]] [[novel]]ist and short story writer. She was known for [[psychological thriller]]s. She wrote the novel ''[[The Talented Mr. Ripley]]'' in 1955. Her first book, ''[[Strangers on a Train]]'' was 1950. Some of her novels included [[homosexual]] themes or undertones. The novelist was born in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. She had [[sexual relationship]]s [[bisexuality|with men and women]]. She died in [[Locano]], [[Switzerland]] from [[aplastic anemia]] at age seventy-four. {{DEFAULTSORT:Highsmith, Patricia}} [[Category:American adoptees]] [[Category:LGBT people from Texas]] [[Category:Bisexual people]] [[Category:American LGBT writers]] [[Category:Writers from Fort Worth, Texas]] [[Category:1921 births]] [[Category:1995 deaths]] {{us-bio-stub}}