Andrew Wilson
Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing, London, England, 2003. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very good. Dust jacket: Very good. Tanning to page edges otherwise clean tight copy. 534 pages with black and white photography. In this fascinating work, Wilson has produced a well researched and beautifully written biography of Patricia Highsmith. Gore Vidal has called her one of America's greatest modernist writers. Yet, as Wilson shows, she was a reclusive person, She spent most of her life alone. She was reluctant to talk about her private life, but she kept diaries which were drawn upon for this biography.These reveal that she had several female lovers. She lived with the novelist Ann Aldrich in Bucks County, Pennsylvania in the late 1950s, but most of her adult life was spent in Europe, and she finally settled in Switzerland in 1963. Her final years Highsmith spent in an isolated house near Locarno on the Swiss-Italian border. - She died in Switzerland on February 4, 1995. ISBN: 0747563144
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