Patricia Highsmith was born in Fort Worth Texas in 1921 but moved to New York when she was
six. In her senior year she edited the college magazine having decided to become a writer at
the age of sixteen. Her first novel Strangers on a Train was made into a famous film by Alfred
Hitchcock in 1951. Patricia Highsmith died in Locarno Switzerland in 1995. Her last novel
Small g: A Summer Idyll was published posthumously just over a month later.
