When The Price of Salt was first published in paperback in 1953, Patricia Highsmith was flooded with thousands of letters from readers. The letters came addressed to the author “Claire Morgan,” the ...
Seattle Weekly: The Price of Salt is a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith (using
The Price of Salt is a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith (using the pseudonym Claire Morgan) about a lesbian romance. It sold a lot of copies in an underground way, and must’ve had great subversive ...
The Price of Salt is a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith (using
The forbidden love in Patricia Highsmith's novel 'The Price of Salt,' also published as 'Carol,' will be brought to the screen by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. When it comes to staying informed in ...
Patricia Highsmith is lauded as the author of the unparalleled psychological thrillers “Strangers on a Train” and “The Talented Mr. Ripley.” “The Price of Salt,” her classic story of erotic obsession, ...
PRIDE: Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska to Star as a Couple in Patricia Highsmith's 'The Price of Salt'
Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska to Star as a Couple in Patricia Highsmith's 'The Price of Salt'
Originally written under the pseudonym Claire Morgan, The Price of Salt is Patricia Highsmith’s only openly lesbian novel, and it became a cult classic after its 1952 release. The book begins with a ...
After writing her second novel, The Price of Salt—later adapted as Carol—publishers warned Patricia Highsmith that writing a “lesbian pulp novel” would kill her career before it had even begun.
Known for her psychopathic antiheroes and novels such as “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “The Price of Salt,” Highsmith was a tangle of contradictions. Credit...Photo: Swiss Literary Archives, Bern ...