Frank Rich on Patricia Highsmith’s Carol and the Enduring Invisibility of Lesbian Culture in America
In early December 1948, Patricia Highsmith took a Christmas-season temp job as a shopgirl in the children's toy department at Bloomingdale's. Highsmith, a 27-year-old native of Fort Worth, Texas, and a 1942 Barnard graduate, was a budding novelist who had been supporting herself for five years as a freelance action-comic-book writer, ... More »
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