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Book World: Patricia Highsmith s sordid search for inspiration Wendy Smith, The Washington Post Jan. 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail By Richard Bradford - - - Patricia Highsmith is a tricky subject for biography, though British academic Richard Bradford is the third in 18 years to try. Tricky, because Highsmith s behavior could be as creepy and unsettling as that of the protagonists in her most famous novels, Strangers on a Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley. She liked to seduce married women or lesbians in committed relationships, and she was flagrantly unfaithful to all her lovers. She was an unrepentant alcoholic, drunk from morning till night, who once toppled into the candles on a dinner table and lay there, her hair on fire, while nearby guests tried to smother the flames. She was a vicious anti-Semite who flirted with Holocaust denial and declared that Jews love to be hated. She was weirdly fascinated by snails and carried around hundreds of them in her handbag, once

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