Publication
Picador (2011), Edition: Reprint, 704 pages
Collections
Awards
Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — Lesbian Memoir/Biography — 2010)
Edgar Award (Nominee — Critical/Biographical Work — 2010)
Anthony Award (Nominee — 2010)
Publishing Triangle Awards (Finalist — Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction — 2010)
Agatha Award (Nominee — Non-Fiction — 2009)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Nonfiction — 2010)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction — 2010)
ALA Over the Rainbow Book List (Selection — Memoir/Biography — 2011)
Content and Summary Info
Bisexual Content: Patricia Highsmith (cisgender woman) had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Publisher's Summary: Patricia Highsmith, one of the great writers of twentieth-century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favorite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. Joan Schenkar maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, Strangers on a Train, to her long, strange self-exile in Europe. We see her as a secret writer for the comics, a brilliant creator of disturbing fictions, and an erotic predator with dozens of women (and a few good men) on her love list.