![]() Mary Patricia Hangman was born in Forth Worth, Texas.
Later she took the name of her stepfather. When she was six, she moved
with her mother and stepfather to New York. At the age of fifteen she started
writing. She studied English, Latin and Greek at Barnard College, Columbia
and obtained her BA in 1942. At twenty-three, she decided to become a writer
but it took her six years to get her first novel published. The novel was
bought by Alfred Hitchcock who made it into a film. In 1955 her first 'Ripley'
novel was published. Ripley became her best-known and most enduring character,
featuring in five further novels. He was not a detective but a murderer!
Her novels are psychological thrillers.
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Titles and year of publication:
1) Strangers on a Train | 1950 |
2) The Price of Salt (UK Title: Carol) | 1952 |
3) The Blunderer | 1954 |
4) The Talented Mr Ripley | 1955 |
5) Deep Water | 1957 |
6) A Game for the Living | 1958 |
7) This Sweet Sickness | 1960 |
8) The Cry of the Owl | 1962 |
9) The Two Faces of January | 1964 |
10) The Glass Cell | 1964 |
11) The Story-Teller ( UK Title: A Suspension of Mercy) | 1965 |
12) Those Who Walk Away | 1967 |
13) The Tremor of Forgery | 1969 |
14) Ripley Under Ground | 1970 |
15) The Snail Watchers (short stories) (UK Title: Eleven) | 1970 |
16) A Dog's Ransom | 1972 |
17) Ripley's Game | 1974 |
18) The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder (short stories) | 1975 |
19) Little Tales of Misogyny (short stories) | 1977 |
20) Edith's Diary | 1977 |
21) Slowly, Slowly in the Wind (short stories) | 1979 |
22) The Boy Who Followed Ripley | 1980 |
23) The Black House | 1981 |
24) The People Who Knock on the Door | 1983 |
25) Mermaids on the Golf Course and Other Stories (short stories) | 1985 |
26) Found in the Street | 1986 |
27) Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (short stories) | 1987 |
28) Ripley Under Water | 1991 |
29) Small G: A Summer Idyll | 1995 |
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