American crime novelist Patricia Highsmith’s most famous works include the novels Strangers on a Train (1950) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955). She was noted for writing psychological thrillers that delve into the nature of guilt, innocence, good, and evil. Several of her novels were adapted into film and television series. Using the pseudonym Claire Morgan, she wrote The Price of Salt (1952), a tale of a love affair between a married woman and a younger, unmarried woman. From 1990 the novel was published under the title Carol.
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