Strangers on a Train is a 1950 psychological thriller novel by American author, Patricia Highsmith.
Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train, while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a.... - AsNotedIn
The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm. It was having to stop at smaller and more frequent stations, where it would wait impatiently for a moment, then attack the prairie again.
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1938/00/00 | Patricia Highsmith | Author | "When I was seventeen, in Texas, I met briefly a very spoiled boy who was very much like Bruno, completely dissolute ... completely worthless, and he was the genesis of Bruno." PH | Fort Worth, TX | Texas | ||
| 1947/12/22 | Patricia Highsmith | Author | Today is a great day, I have written the Murder, the raison d'etre of the novel ... something happened today, I feel I have grown older, completely adult ... completely satisfied, very happy. I don't want to marry. I have my good friends ... and girls? PH | ||||
| 1948/02/00 | Patricia Highsmith | Author | Patricia Highsmith meets New York's literary celebrity, Truman Capote, at a book launch. Capote tells Highsmith that she should stay at Yaddo, a refuge for writers with 'unconventional inclinations'. | ||||
| 1948/03/00 | Truman Capote | Life | Truman Capote provides a recommendation for Patricia Highsmith to be accepted at Yaddo, where a writer with 'unconventional inclinations' can avoid the prejudice of mainstream society. | Yaddo, artists community | Saratoga Springs, NY | ||
| 1948/05/10 | Patricia Highsmith | Author | Patricia Highsmith arrives at Yaddo, an artist retreat in upstate New York where she will find its director, Elizabeth Ames, "a strange, creepy sort of woman, silent and sinister like Mrs Danvers in Rebecca." | Yaddo, artists community | Saratoga Springs, NY | ||
| 1948/06/00 | Patricia Highsmith | Author | Patricia Highsmith writes a rough draft of "Strangers on a Train" during a two month stay at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York. | Yaddo, artists community | Saratoga Springs, NY | ||
| 1950/01/00 | Literary agent Margot Johnson, sends a review copy of "Strangers on a Train" by Patricia Highsmith to Alfred Hitchcock, pointing out its similarities to Hitchcock's film 'Rope'. | ||||||
| 1950/03/15 | Harper and Brothers | Publisher | "Strangers on a Train", a novel by Patricia Highsmith, is published by Harper and Brothers. | ||||
| 1950/03/17 | Patricia Highsmith | Author | In her small NYC apartment, Patricia Highsmith host a launch party for her book "Strangers on a Train". Highsmith received a $200 advance for the book. | ||||
| 1950/03/20 | Alfred Hitchcock | Director | While MGM offers Patricia Highsmith $4,000 for the film rights to "Strangers on a Train", Alfred Hitchcock proposes $6,000 for rights in perpetuity and $1,500 for work on writing the screen play. |
| Particulars for Strangers on a Train (book): | |||
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| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Detective | a person, especially a police officer, whose occupation is to investigate and solve crimes. | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Narrative Arts | Murder | the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another | |
| Narrative Arts | Mystery | something not understood or beyond understanding | |
| Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
| Art Type | Novel | long form fiction narrative that is at least 40,000 words in length | |
| Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language | |
| Science | Psychological | of, affecting, or arising in the mind related to the mental and emotional state of a person | |
| Narrative Arts | Thriller | ||
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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