The Talented Miss Highsmith (105 page)

2.
CWA Vince Fago, 30 Nov. 2001.

3.
Ibid., 28 Nov. 2001.

4.
CWA Stan Lee via Roy Thomas, Nov. 29, 2001.

5.
Jim Amash letter to the author, 10 April 2009, quoting his 2005 interview with the late Leon Lazarus.

6.
CWA Will Eisner, 23 Dec. 2002.

7.
The Whip first appeared in
Flash Comics
no. 1, in 1940.

8.
CWA William Woolfolk, 15 Dec. 2001.

9.
Ibid.

10.
Ibid.

11.
PH letter to SH, 1 Sept. 1970.

12.
CWA Elizabeth Hardwick, 12 Apr. 2002.

13.
Roy Thomas, editor of
Alter Ego
, cites this as a letter to the editor by Pierce Rice, appearing in a mid-nineties issue of Robin Snyder's
The Comics,
p. 56.

14.
Ibid.

15.
A remark made by Mickey Spillane to a British interviewer. When the interviewer asked if that's how Spillane treated his wife, he replied: “We're talking about fiction” (“Obituary, Mickey Spillane,”
Guardian,
18 July 2006).

16.
Ibid.

17.
Cahier 22, 6/12/53.

18.
CWA Vince Fago, 28 Nov. 2001.

19.
Ibid., 30 Nov. 2001.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Who's Who of American Comic Books
, volume 2 (1974), is the volume that first mentions Patricia Highsmith.

22.
PH letter to SH, 1 Sept. 1970.

23.
PH letter to Anita Bryant, 13 May 1978.

24.
CWA Jerry Bails, 3 Dec. 2002.

25.
Ibid.; also see
Who's Who of American Comic Books
.

15. Social Studies: Part 1

1.
Cahier 3, 12/23/40. “Unfortunately, [Proust] wrote of an age just past, as an historian rather than a prophet…. A writer like Steinbeck…can write in the present, of the present, of people's passions.”

2.
Cahier 12, 4/6/45.

3.
Ibid., 3/26/45.

4.
Chart made by PH and inserted by her in Cahier 12, Apr. 1945.

5.
Cahier 19, 11/23/49.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Cahier 4, 9/2/40.

8.
Cahier 29, 7/17/68.

9.
Ibid.

10.
MCH telegram to PH (Collection Annebelle Potin).

11.
SH letter to PH, 23 Aug. 1970.

12.
PH letter to SH, 29 Aug. 1970.

13.
Don Swaim interviews PH,
Book Notes.

14.
Cahier 13, 9/8/45.

15.
Cahier 3, 10/30/1940.

16.
Diary 4, May 31–June 6, 1943.

17.
Cahier 9, PH transcription of high school notebooks, Oct. 18, 1937.

18.
Diary 2, Wed. Apr. 8, 1942.

19.
Eugene Walter,
Milking the Moon
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001), p. 86.

20.
Francis King,
Oldie,
“Angry Old Woman,” Sept. 2003.

21.
Betty Curry letter to PH, 5 Nov. 1977.

22.
CWA Betty Curry, 26 Aug. 2003.

23.
Liz Smith,
Natural Blonde
(New York: Hyperion, 2000), p. 117.

24.
Patricia Schartle Myrer letter to the author, 17 Feb. 2003.

25.
Ibid.

26.
CWA Caroline Besterman, 6 Nov. 2003.

27.
Ibid., 19 Dec. 2003.

28.
CWA Camilla Butterfield, 17 Dec. 2003.

29.
Ibid.

30.
Diary 8, Feb. 27, 1949.

31.
CWA Karl Bissinger, 3 Dec. 2004.

32.
Diary 2: Vendredi le 13 juin, 1941, “Berenice Abbot m'a invité à une soirée chez elle le vendredi prochain.”

33.
Mitchell,
Ruth Bernhard
, p. 57.

34.
Diary 2, Jan. 22, 1942.

35.
Diary 1, summer and fall of 1941; diary 2, winter of 1942.

36.
PH,
The Talented Mr. Ripley,
pp. 245–47.

37.
Cahier 9, PH transcription of high school notebooks, Sept. 1938.

38.
Ibid., 21 Dec. 1938.

39.
Ibid., Aug. 24, 1939.

40.
Anatole Broyard,
Kafka Was the Rage
(New York: Vintage Books, 1997), pp. 7–8.

41.
Diary 1, June 13, 1941.

42.
Mitchell,
Ruth Bernard
, p. 57.

43.
Diary 3, 9 Aug. 1942.

44.
Ibid.

45.
Cahier 8, 11/11/1942.

46.
Diary 5, May 26–27, 1943.

47.
Ibid.

48.
Ibid., July 28, 1941.

49.
Diary 1, July 6, 1941.

50.
CWA Ruth Bernhard, 14 Feb. 2003.

51.
PH letter to Bettina Berch, 22 Dec. 1991.

52.
CWA Donald Windham, 30 June 2004.

53.
Buffie Johnson interviewed by Romy Ashby,
Goodie
no. 3.

54.
CWA Buffie Johnson, 14–16 Nov., 29 Nov., 1 Dec., 13 Dec. 2001; and 26 Apr., 30 Apr., 24 Dec. 2002; 26 Aug. 2003; and undated memoirs.

55.
Diary 1, July 5, 1941.

56.
Diary 2, June 30, 1942.

57.
Ibid., Feb. 9, 1942.

58.
CWA Sybille Bedford, 16 June 2005.

59.
Sybille Bedford,
Quicksands: A Memoir
(New York: Counterpoint, 2005), p. 124.

60.
CWA Daniel Bell, 18 Aug. 2003.

61.
MCH letter to Marijane Meaker, “Friday
AM
, 11th” (no other date).

62.
MCH letter to PH, dated “Tues
AM
.”

63.
Diary 4, Aug. 16–22, 1943.

64.
Diary 2, Jan. 10, 1942.

65.
Ibid., Feb. 3, 1942.

66.
PH letter to SH, 1 Sept. 1970.

67.
Diary 8, Oct. 1947.

68.
Hortense Calisher, 26 Feb. 2003, at the Yaddo benefit honoring PH.

69.
Diary 2, Feb. 10, 1942.

70.
Ibid.

71.
Ibid., June 4, 1942.

72.
Ibid., June 6, 1942.

73.
CWA Dorothy Wheelock Edson, 7 June 2004.

74.
Kay Redfield Jamison,
Touched with Fire
(New York: Free Press, 1993), p. 36.

75.
CWA Phillip Lloyd Powell, 8 Feb. 2003.

76.
Ibid.

77.
CWA Heather Chasen, 22 Sept. 2002.

78.
Ibid.

79.
Christian Gonzalez, “Jeanne Moreau: La Vie Me Nourris,”
Figaro Madame
, July 2004.

80.
CWA Phyllis Nagy, 26 June 2002.

81.
PH letter to DOC, 14 Oct. 1977.

82.
CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2002.

83.
CWA Don Coates, 9 Dec. 2005.

84.
Shirley Jackson,
The Lottery—or, The Adventures of James Harris
(New York: Farrar, Straus, 1949).

85.
Diary 4, June 24, 1943.

86.
Diary 8, Mar. 17, 1949.

87.
Author's note: Before her death in 2001, I saw Fanny Brennan's entire current oeuvre, perhaps sixty or seventy paintings, hanging in her coat closet in New York. The paintings were so small that they fit comfortably in the tiny closet, which had been kitted out as a miniature art gallery.

88.
PH letter to Lee Israel, 19 Mar. 1974.

89.
Cahier 36, 5/16/88.

90.
Ibid.

91.
CWA Christa Maerker, 27 July 2004.

92.
Ibid.

93.
CWA Betty Comden, 25 Aug. 2003.

94.
Cahier 16, 12/9/47.

95.
Ibid., 12/28/47.

96.
Diary 8, May 14, 1947.

97.
Diary 10, May 8, 1950.

98.
Diary 8, May 27, 1947.

99.
PH letter to Millicent Dillon, 5 June 1977 (HRC).

100.
Diary 8, 5/27/47.

101.
Drawing of Jane Bowles by PH, undated.

102.
Diary 10, Wed., Nov. 1950.

103.
PH letter to Millicent Dillon, 5 June 1977 (HRC).

104.
Ibid.

105.
Ibid.

106.
Diary 8, May 13, 1947.

107.
Diary 10, August 16, 1950.

108.
Diary 8, May 15–16, 1947.

109.
Nancy Mitford letter to Evelyn Waugh, 3 Dec. 1962. Quoted in
The Letters of Nancy Mitford & Evelyn Waugh
, ed. Charlotte Mosley (London: Sceptre, 1997), p. 469.

110.
Leo Lerman,
The Grand Surprise
(New York: Knopf, 2007), pp. 425–6.

111.
Ibid., p. 329.

112.
Ibid., p. 202.

113.
Grey Foy, speaking about Leo Lerman's salon in
Truman Capote
, George Plimpton, ed. (New York: Anchor Books, 1997) p. 44.