The Resume

(January 19, 1921-February 4, 1995)
Born in Fort Worth, Texas
Birth name was Mary Patricia Plangman
Wrote 22 novels and 9 short story collections
Best known for 'Strangers on a Train' (1950) and the Ripley series: 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (1955), 'Ripley Underground' (1970), 'Ripley's Game' (1974), 'The Boy Who Followed Ripley' (1980) and 'Ripley Underwater' (1991)

Why she might be annoying:

She resented her stepfather and had an intense love-hate relationship with her mother.
She was an alcoholic.
Her relationships rarely lasted more than a few years.
While working at Bloomingdale's, she became obsessed with a customer, got her address from her credit card details, and spied on her without her knowledge.
She kept 200 snails as pets and carried them in her handbag.
Her acquaintances considered her misanthropic.
She said, 'My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.'

Why she might not be annoying:

Her mother claimed to have tried to abort her by drinking turpentine.
'Strangers on a Train' was famously adapted as a film by Alfred Hitchcock.
Her novel 'The Price of Salt' (1953) was one of the first examples of lesbian fiction with a happy ending.
Graham Greene called her 'the poet of apprehension.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Alfred Hitchcock Films
• Bisexuals
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 08]
• Exiles
• I Attended Barnard College
• I Died in 1995 (Ranked: 74)
• I Have Leukemia
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 60)
• Profiles 21501-21750 (Ranked: 21635)
• Recluses
• Smith Versus Jones
• Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time (Ranked: 71)
• We Died on the Same Day (Ranked: 19950204)

Year In Review:

For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 16.67% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 44 Votes: 79.55% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 6 Votes: 83.33% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 36 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 31 Votes: 64.52% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 85 Votes: 49.41% Annoying