Patricia Highsmith:
Born Mary Patricia Plangman (Fort Worth (Texas), 19 January 1921 – Locarno, 4 February 1995).
American writer known mainly for a number of psychological thrillers. She also wrote many short stories. She was born in the United States but lived most of her life in France. She also wrote under the pseudonym Claire Morgan.
January was a two-faced month, jangling like jester’s bells, crackling like snow crust, pure as any beginning, grim as an old man, mysteriously familiar yet unknown, like a word one can almost but not quite define.
