![]() (I wrote about the adaptation of Carol and the improvements it made for the film medium, and Alice Burton wrote about the importance of the book and movie for lesbians.) Published in 1952, Carol was the first traditionally published American novel about lesbians with a (relatively) happy ending - neither of them died or reverted to heterosexuality, which was virtually unheard of at the time the book was published under the name Claire Morgan, and Highsmith did not put her own name on it until 1990. Ripley, have been adapted into extremely famous movies, as has her much more personal novel, The Price of Salt, also known as Carol. Her suspense novels, including Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. ![]() She is, of course, best known for being a writer. Patricia Highsmith was a complicated woman. ![]()
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