The Talented Miss Highsmith (110 page)

2.
Cahier 26, 12/22/61.

3.
Cahier 4, 9/15/40.

4.
CWA Susannah Clapp, 2 Jan. 2004.

5.
Cahier 26, 8/25/62.

6.
Cahier 27, 1/19/63.

7.
Cahier 32, 6/17/73.

8.
Ibid.

9.
Cahier 9, 9/29/43.

10.
Joyce Carol Oates, “Dark Laughter,”
New York Review of Books
, 15 Nov. 2001; also in Oates,
Uncensored
:
Views & (Re)views
(New York: Ecco, 2005), p. 44.
Nothing That Meets the Eye
, a second posthumous collection of Highsmith stories written between 1938 and 1989, is not a collection Highsmith herself would have approved. The stories appeared in such publications as
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Cosmopolitan, Today's Woman,
and
Home and Food.
In a letter to Kingsley Skattebol on 27 September 1994, four months before she died, Pat strongly objected to the publication of her early work: “What I am against—since you're my lit. exec.—is publishing inferior products of mine…. My point is, it's scraping the bottom of the barrel, just to make a few francs…. I decided today to refuse to publish (or work on) such a book, and so wrote to v. Planta.”

11.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 10–11 Mar. 1969.

12.
CWA Daniel Keel, 12 Apr. 2003.

13.
Ibid.

14.
CWA KKS, 12 Sept. 2003.

15.
CWA Marion Aboudaram, 21 Sept. 2002.

16.
Descriptions of Pat's laughter come from Vivien De Bernardi, Charles Latimer, Joan Dupont.

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

18.
PH letter to Alain Oulman, 18 Sept. 1982 (CLA).

19.
CWA Jonathan Kent, 18 Nov. 2003.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Ibid.

22.
CWA Peter and Anita Huber-Speck, 18 Apr. 2003.

23.
PH letter to BKS, 11 Sept. 1973.

24.
Cahier 23, 5/2/54.

25.
Cahier 21, 11/30/51.

26.
CWA Barbara Roett, 18 May 2003.

27.
Ibid.

28.
Ibid.

29.
CWA Marion Aboudaram, 21 Sept. 2002.

30.
Ibid., 23 Sept. 2002.

31.
Ibid., 25 Sept. 2002.

32.
Ibid., 23 Sept. 2002.

33.
Ibid., 25 Sept. 2002.

34.
Ibid., 23 Oct. 2002.

35.
Francis Wyndham, “Miss Highsmith,”
New Statesman,
30 May 1963.

36.
CWA Francis Wyndham, 20 Dec. 2003.

37.
Ibid.

38.
Cahier 13, 9/6/45.

39.
CWA Peter Huber, 22 Apr. 2003.

40.
Peter Handke, “Die Privaten Weltkriege der Patricia Highsmith,” pp. 169–180.

41.
CWA Barbara Roett, 18 May 2003.

42.
PH letter to KKS, 26 Oct. 1953.

43.
Cahier 15, 4/16/47.

28. Les Girls: Part 12

1.
Cahier 32, 10/20/73.

2.
Juliette Ryan letter to the author, 8 Nov. 2002.

3.
PH,
Deep Water
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), p. 84.

4.
CWA Juliette Ryan, 6 Nov. 2002.

5.
Judith Freeman,
The Long Embrace: Raymond Chandler and the Woman He Loved
(New York: Pantheon Books, 2007).

6.
PH, Introduction to
The World of Raymond Chandler,
edited by Miriam Gross (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977).

7.
Ibid., p. 5.

8.
Ibid., p. 2.

9.
Raymond Chandler letter to Carl Brandt, 11 Dec. 1950,
Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler
, edited by Frank MacShane (London: Jonathan Cape, 1981), p. 247.

10.
PH, Introduction to
The World of Raymond Chandler,
p. 3.

11.
Edward Burra letter to BKS, autumn 1971 (TGA).

12.
CWA Noëlle Loriot, 5 July 2002.

13.
All direct quotations, unless otherwise cited, come from Noëlle Loriot, “Trois Jours avec Patricia Highsmith,”
L'Express
, 8 June 1979.

14.
CWA Noëlle Loriot, 5 July 2002.

15.
Ibid.

16.
Ibid.

29. Les Girls: Part 13

1.
PH letter to KKS, 14 Mar. 1968.

2.
CWA Peter Huber, 18 Apr. 2003.

3.
CWA DéDé Moser, 2 Aug. 2004.

4.
A partial list of people close to Pat who fall into one of the several categories of not caring for Pat's work—or not reading it: Kingsley Skattebol, Ellen Hill, Caroline Besterman, Peter Huber and Anita Huber-Speck (with reservations), Vivien De Bernardi, Monique Buffet, Marion Aboudaram (with reservations), Tabea Blumenschein, and Barbara Ker-Seymer.

5.
Barbara Skelton, “Patricia Highsmith at Home,”
London Magazine
, Aug.–Sept. 1995.

6.
CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2003.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Diary 17, Dec. 24, 1989.

9.
Ibid., Nov. 15, 1991.

10.
Ibid., May 23, 1992.

11.
Mary Ford, “This Is Your Second Brain,”
Sunday Telegraph,
4 Sept. 2005.

12.
CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2003.

13.
CWA Bert Diener and Julia Diener-Diethelm, 1 Apr. 2003.

14.
CWA KKS, 6 Jan. 2003.

15.
PH letter to KKS, 14 June 1988.

16.
CWA Marion Aboudaram, 24 Sept. 2002.

17.
PH letter to KKS, 23 Mar. 1953.

18.
PH letter to Mary McCarthy, 3 Oct. 1972 (VCL).

19.
Mary Kling remembers “two or three lunches [with Pat]—and I knew if she wanted to be my client I couldn't refuse her, but…she wasn't conversable.”

20.
PH letter to Mary McCarthy, 9 Sept. 1983 (VCL).

21.
Ibid., 16 May 1983 (VCL).

22.
Ibid., 10 Oct. 1977 (VCL).

23.
Mary McCarthy Archives (VCL).

24.
CWA Marion Aboudaram, 23 Sept. 2002.

25.
CWA Monique Buffet, 7 Apr. 2003.

26.
MB letter to the author, 27 Sept. 2004.

27.
CWA Barbara Roett, 18 May 2003.

28.
PH letter to Ellen Hill, 10 July 1978.

29.
PH,
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
, manuscript.

30.
CWA Monique Buffet, 7 Apr. 2003.

31.
CWA Tabea Blumenschein, 15 June 2003.

32.
Diary 6, 11/14/44.

33.
CWA Phyllis Nagy, 13 Oct. 2002.

34.
PH letter to Monique Buffet, 13 Aug. 1978 (Collection Monique Buffet).

35.
Ibid., 23 Aug. 1978 (Collection Monique Buffet).

36.
Ibid., 27 Sept. 1978 (Collection Monique Buffet).

37.
PH letter to MB, 19 Nov. 1978.

38.
CWA Barbara Roett, 18 May 2003.

39.
Meaker,
Highsmith
, p. 48.

40.
PH letter to Mr. Reichardt, 4 Nov. 1970.

41.
PH letter to KKS, 16 Mar. 1971.

42.
Muriel Spark telegram to PH, 1968.

43.
CWA Muriel Spark, 24 May 2005.

44.
Muriel Spark,
A Far Cry from Kensington
(New York: New Directions, 1988), pp. 93–94.

45.
Cahier 26, 7/3/60.

46.
PH letter to MB, Sept. 13, 1978 (Collection Monique Buffet).

47.
CWA Monique Buffet, 21 June 2003.

48.
Ibid., 7 Apr. 2003.

49.
PH letter to MB, 6 Sept. 1978 (Collection Monique Buffet).

50.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 18 Feb. 1969.

30. Les Girls: Part 14

1.
PH letter to MB, 24 Sept. 1992 (Collection Monique Buffet).

2.
CWA Francis Wyndham, 20 Dec. 2003.

3.
Meaker,
Highsmith,
p. 60.

4.
Joan Juliet Buck, “A Terrifying Talent,”
Observer Magazine
, 20 Nov. 1977.

5.
Andrew Wilson,
Beautiful Shadow
(New York: Bloomsbury, 2003). p. 286.

6.
Francis King, “Angry Old Woman,”
Oldie
, 6 Jan. 2004.

7.
CWA Caroline Besterman, 6 Nov. 2003.

8.
CWA Christa Maerker, 21 July 2004.

9.
CWA Alex Szogyi and Philip Thompson, 9 Dec. 2002.

10.
CWA KKS, 19 Apr. 2005.

11.
Cahier 3, 4/12/41.

12.
CWA MB, 7 Apr. 2003.

13.
CWA Bettina Berch, 10 Aug. 2003.

14.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 31 Mar. 1969.

15.
Ibid., 4 Nov. 1968.

16.
Ibid., 23 Aug. 1970.

17.
Cahier 36, 2/8/88.

18.
CWA Monique Buffet, 5 Dec. 2003.

19.
PH letter to KKS, 6 Feb. 1989.

20.
Cahier 36, 18/5/88.

21.
One of Pat's uncles, Mother Mary's brother, was named Claude, and he and Mary were coexecutors of Willie Mae Coates's estate, the disposition of which had left Pat feeling cheated. (She hadn't been cheated, but she didn't forget the incident, either.)