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Portrait of Patricia Highsmith Photo: Mary Evans /AF Archive/TT (1978)

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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...

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Patrick Grant

Gender: Male

Professor Patrick Grant – whose surname comes from the whisky brand, his creator Margaret Yorke has revealed – lectures in Art History in Oxford. He is somewhat absentminded, often quotes Shakespeare, but for a principal protagonist in crime novels he is really an unusually bland figure without any special characteristics. He is, however, a clever amateur detective who solves cases in five who...

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