High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Ripley is a fictional character in a series of crime novels by Patricia Highsmith, as well as several film adaptations. The series of five books based around Ripley's exploits is collectively called "the Ripliad."Highsmith introduced Ripley in The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) as a young man making a meager living off his "talents": forgery, impersonation and lying. The novel reveals that he was orphaned at age five when his parents drowned in Boston Harbor, and was raised in Boston by his aunt Dottie, who repeatedly mocked him and his father as "a sissy". After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to run away from his aunt's home, he left for New York City at 20.

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