about Patricia Highsmith

Mary Patricia Plangman-it's the real name of the one of the most famous American writer.
She was born at 19^th January of 1921 in Texas.
Her personal life wasn't very calm and peaceful. She had serious problems with an alcohol. None of her relationships survived more than a few years. She prefered the company of animals than people. Once she even said : "My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people."
She had never got married but she had a number of affairs with both men and women. One of them was an affair with another writer Marijane Meaker, who wrote of their affair in her memoir Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s.
Highsmith believed in American democratic ideals and in the promise of US history, but she was also highly critical of the reality of 20th-century American culture.
In 1963 she moved to Europe, where she spent the rest of her life.
She died in February of 1995 in Locarno, Switzerland. She had leukemia.