![]() ![]() ![]() She wanted to explore the sharp ambivalence she felt about marrying her fiancé, a novelist named Marc Brandel. That Christmas season, she was working behind the toy counter at Bloomingdale’s, in Manhattan, in order to help pay for psychoanalysis. A Texas native with thick black hair and feral good looks, Highsmith made a habit of standing at attention when a woman walked into the room. Her first novel, “Strangers on a Train,” was complete, but it would be more than a year before it was published. In December of 1948, Patricia Highsmith was a twenty-seven-year-old aspiring writer with a murderous imagination and an outsized talent for seducing women. ![]() A blonde in a mink coat made Highsmith feel “swimmy in the head, near to fainting.” Photograph by Ruth Bernhard / Princeton University Art Museum / Art Resource ![]()
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