Last Sunday's Washington Post Book World contains a review by
Alice Turner of _Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia
Highsmith_ by Andrew Wilson. The review is probably still
online.
According to the reviewer, this is a dispassionate biography
that doesn't try to glorify its subject. Here is Otto Penzler
on Patricia, as quoted in the book:
"There was an unredeemable ugliness to her. I never witnessed
a kind thought, a kind word, a kind gesture in all the time
we spent together."
And:
"She was a totally horrible woman. She was mean, unkind,
unfriendly and cold, and never missed an opportunity to be
nasty."
I thought you would like to know. I'm going to get the
library to buy it. Nasty or yes, Highsmith was one of the
essential writers of dark suspense.
Best,
MrT
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