Patricia Highsmith "Mademoiselle", "Good Housekeeping", "Time", "Fortune", and "The New Yorker". Based on the recommendation from Truman Capote, Highsmith was accepted by the Yaddo artist's retreat during the summer of 1948, where she worked on her first novel, "Strangers on a Train". Highsmith endured cycles of depression, some of them deep, throughout her life. Despite literary success, she wrote in her diary of January 1970: "[I] am now cynical, fairly rich ... lonely, depressed, and totally pessimistic." Over the years, Highsmith suffered from female hormone deficiency, anorexia nervosa, chronic anemia, Buerger's disease, and lung cancer. According to her biographer Andrew Wilson, Highsmith's
Phyllis Nagy Royal Court Theatre in January 1998, in a co-production with "The Foundry"; and "The Talented Mr. Ripley", adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith which premiered at the Watford Palace Theatre, in October 1998, and later produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company in February 1999. Her version of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" was produced at Chichester Festival Theatre in the summer of 2003. In 2005, Nagy directed a production of "The Scarlet Letter" at the same venue. Nagy wrote the screenplay for "Carol", an adaption of the 1952 Patricia Highsmith novel "The Price of Salt" (later republished under the title