The Price of Salt (later published under the title Carol), written by Patricia Highsmith, was first published in 1952. As it was the first lesbian love story of its day with a happy ending, letters of appreciation flooded the author. However, the letters came addressed to her pen name, Claire Morgan. “No one used their real names for queer novels at that time, and that was wise.” Writer and ex-lover of Highsmith, Marijane Meaker, brought back her memory. Eva Vitija’s Loving Highsmith reorganizes the life of this brilliant but lonely author based on her diaries, interviews, and stories from the women she loved. Her mother almost abandoned Patricia after birth. She loved her mother, so she tried to live as a heterosexual to please her. She hid her novel, Carol, from her mother and went on a journey. She traveled extensively her whole life and loved and left many women. Her adventurous spirit and insecurity became the main drivers to create novels. In 1989, Highsmith republished Carol in her real name. She explained her life in her final years as “a chronicle of unbelievable mistakes,” but Loving Highsmith makes us understand and love her more by going deep into the inner side of this willful, complicated, and terribly romantic creator. [CHOI Jieun]