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The Talented Ms. Highsmith

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“I put what I call ordinary people into rather tough situations,” Patricia Highsmith once told an interviewer. “They seek, quite naturally, some way out.” During the fall of 1994, Elena Gosalvez Blanco took a job as caretaker for Highsmith, the acclaimed author of Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, moving into her idiosyncratic manse in Tegna, Switzerland. For The Yale Review, Blanco details her weeks under Highsmith’s overbearing…
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Longreads broke the news in on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
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