TY - BOOK AU - Highsmith,Patricia TI - The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game U1 - 813 23 PY - 1974/// CY - London PB - Everyman Publishers KW - Truyện Mỹ N1 - Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for her psychological thrillers, which led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train, has been adapted for stage and screen numerous times, notably by Alfred Hitchcock in 1951. Highsmith wrote 22 novels, including her series of five novels with Tom Ripley as protagonist, and many short stories. Michael Dirda observed, "Europeans honored her as a psychological novelist, part of an existentialist tradition represented by her own favorite writers, in particular Dostoyevsky, Conrad, Kafka, Gide, and Camus ER -