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
The Caller (novel) human cost of the criminal activity, pays off handsomely yet again." The Caller (novel) The Caller (Norwegian: "Varsleren", 2009) is a crime fiction novel by Norwegian crime fiction author Karin Fossum, the tenth in the Inspector Konrad Sejer series, released 2009 by Random House, and published in English in 2011. Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" said that "The Caller" provided the chills, and that it "will put you away, no questions asked". "Goodreads" gave "The Caller" 3.77 stars, based on user-generated ratings. The "Irish Times" praised the novel, saying that it was "A contemporary Patricia Highsmith, her (Fossum's)