Photo: Mary Evans /AF Archive/TT (1978)
Sample of authors
Highsmith, Patricia
Patricia Highsmith was an American author born in Fort Worth, Texas, as Mary Patricia Plangman. Both parents were artists who worked with illustrations and advertising. They separated before Highsmith was born, and her mother married Stanley Highsmith in 1924. The family moved to New York in 1927, a sad period for Highsmith. Her relationship with her mother was fraught and she did not get on...
Literary figures
Stan (Standish) Rice
Gender: Male
According to author Baynard Kendrick, Miles Standish ‘Stan’ Rice usually introduces himself as ‘Stan Rice – the hungry’. And he certainly can eat, lots, but nevertheless the 190cm-tall sheriff is as thin ‘as a skeleton’. He also has yellowy blonde hair, blue eyes and wears ill-fitting, wrinkled clothes. He is active in Florida, where he solves cases which often include what seem to be supernatural...