Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and NotebooksMy secrets the secrets that everyone has are here, in black and white. Before Alfred Hitchcock adapted her debut novel, Strangers on a Train, for the big screen; before Thomas Ripley snaked his way into the canon of psychological suspense; before Carol became a cult classic of romantic obsession, who was Patricia Highsmith? Beginning in 1941 and encompassing Highsmith's adventurous twenties, The New York Years is an intimate self portrait of a young