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2.
CWA Peter Huber, 18 Apr. 2003.
3.
Betty Curry letter to PH, December 19, 1991. Also letters of 21 June 1974, 12 Dec. 1986, 21 May 1989, 18 Dec. 1991.
4.
Ibid., 23 May 1993.
5.
Gert Macy letter to PH, 22 Nov. 1974.
6.
Lynn Roth letter to PH, 20 June 1985.
7.
Natalia Danesi Murray letter to PH, 1 Dec. 1985.
8.
Gina letters to PH, 24 July 1978â22 Sept. 1989.
9.
Polly Cameron letter to PH, 23 Dec. 1990.
10.
Betty Curry letter to PH, 5 Nov. 1977.
11.
Daisy Winston letter to PH, 20 Apr. 1992.
12.
Ibid., Friday, 22 Mar. (no year).
13.
Ibid., 1 Nov. 1992.
14.
Ibid., undated.
15.
Ibid., 16 Jan. 1985.
16.
Ibid., 28 Dec. 1991.
17.
Buffie Johnson letter to PH, 11 Mar. 1986.
18.
CWA Buffie Johnson, 1 Dec. 2001.
19.
PH letter to KKS, 20 Oct. 1989.
20.
Ibid., 28 Nov. 1989.
21.
PH letter to Alain Oulman, 27 Nov. 1989.
22.
Ellen Hill letter to Lil Picard, 2 Jan. 1978 (UIL).
23.
PH letter to Lil Picard, 28 Dec. 1975 (UIL).
24.
Cahier 34, 9/23/76.
25.
Ibid.
26.
Rosalind Constable letter to PH, 7 Apr. 1968.
27.
Ibid., 16 Sept. 1968.
28.
Ibid., 3 Sept. 1968.
29.
Ibid., 28 Sept. 1973.
30.
Cahier 37, 31/12/92.
31.
Rosalind Constable letter to PH, 3 May 1982.
32.
Ibid., 9 Apr. 1989.
33.
Ibid., 17 Nov. 1992.
The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 7
1.
Skelton, “Patricia Highsmith at Home.”
2.
Peter Ruedi, “For Patricia Highsmith, Tegna 11 March, 1995.”
3.
CWA Tanja Howarth, 22 Oct. 2002.
4.
Ibid.
5.
CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2003.
6.
CWA Gary Fisketon, 10 Dec. 2002.
7.
PH letter to Gary Fisketjon, 26 July 1994 (GFF).
8.
CWA P
eter Huber, 18 Apr. 2003.
9.
CWA KKS, 21 Apr. 2002.
10.
Ibid., 7 Oct. 2007.
11.
CWA Tanja Howarth, 22 Oct. 2002.
12.
Cahier 26, 7/12/62.
13.
CWA Tanja Howarth, 22 Oct. 2002.
14.
CWA Bert Diener, 18 Apr. 2003.
15.
Ibid.
16.
CWA Myra Sklarew, 1 Mar. 2004.
17.
CWA Mike Sundell, 4 Mar. 2004.
18.
CWA Liz Calder, 9 May 2003.
19.
Cahier 37, 8/2/92.
20.
CWA Heather Chasen, 19 Oct. 2002.
21.
Cahier 37, 2/8/92.
22.
Cahier 37, 10/10â13/92.
23.
Lucretia Stewart, “Animal Lover's Beastly Murders,”
Sunday Telegraph,
8 Sept. 1991.
24.
Ibid.
25.
Cahier 37, 10/10â13/92.
26.
CWA Bob Lemstron-Sheedy, 25 July 2003.
27.
Ibid.
28.
Ibid.
29.
Ibid.
30.
Ibid.
31.
CWA Donald Rice, 25 Feb. 2004.
32.
CWA DéDé Moser, 2 Aug. 2004.
33.
CWA Donald Rice, 25 Feb. 2004.
34.
Ibid.
35.
Mike Sundell letter to the author, 29 Nov. 2007.
36.
Ibid.
37.
CWA Mike Sundell, 4 Mar. 2004.
38.
PH letter to Dr. Stewart Clarke, 18 July 1993.
39.
Skelton, “Patricia Highsmith at Home.”
40.
PH letter to Bettina Berch, 19 Mar. 1994; PH letter to Florine Coates, 9 July 1994.
41.
PH letter to Bettina Berch, 19 Mar. 1994.
42.
CWA Bruno Sager, 7 June 2003.
43.
Ibid.
44.
Ibid.
45.
Ibid.
46.
CWA Anna Keel, 20 Mar. 2003.
47.
CWA Bruno Sager, 7 June 2003.
48.
PH letter to Jean-Ãtienne Cohen-Séat, 27 Oct. 1994 (CLA).
49.
CWA Patrice Hoffman, 26 Aug. 2004.
50.
Ibid.
41. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 8
1.
CWA Mike Sundell, 4 Mar. 2004.
2.
Ibid.
3.
CWA Don Rice, 25 Feb. 2004.
4.
CWA Daniel Keel and Anna Keel, 20 Mar. 2003.
5.
CWA Marylin Scowden, 1 Sept. 2002.
6.
CWA Bert Diener and Julia Diener-Diethelm, 18 Apr. 2003.
7.
CWA Anne Morneweg, 22 Jan. 2004.
8.
CWA Marylin Scowden, 1 Sept. 2002.
9.
Cahier 35, 5/9/80.
the Talented Miss Highsmith
Primary Sources
A complete bibliography of Patricia Highsmith's work is beyond the scope of this book. The Web site for the Patricia Highsmith Papers at the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern, Switzerland (
http://ead.nb.admin.ch/html/highsmith.html
), will give interested readers an idea of her ferocious industry. In Bern, I consulted more than two hundred “unknown” Highsmith manuscripts (dozens of which had been published in different versions in
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
), looked hard at her photograph albums and her sketchbooks, and read straight through her thirty-eight cahiers (1937â94), her eighteen diaries (1940â94), her fourteen scrapbooks, her business notebooks, and the many manuscripts of her published works.
The following worksâthe current Highsmith canonâare amongst the primary sources for this biography. They are listed here along with the details of their first publication in the United States. I have used various editions of Highsmith's works in writing this biography; all of them are cited in the endnotes.
Novels
Strangers on a Train
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950)
The Price of Salt
(as Claire Morgan; New York: Coward-McCann, 1952)
The Blunderer
(New York: Coward-McCann, 1954)
The Talented Mr. Ripley
(New York: Coward-McCann, 1955)
Deep Water
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957)
A Game for the Living
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958)
This Sweet Sickness
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1960)
The Cry of the Owl
(New York: Harper & Row, 1962)
The Two Faces of January
(New York: Doubleday, 1964)
The Glass Cell
(New York: Doubleday, 1964)
The Story-Teller
(UK title:
A Suspension of Mercy
; New York: Doubleday, 1965)
Those Who Walk Away
(New York: Doubleday, 1967)
The Tremor of Forgery
(New York: Doubleday, 1969)
Ripley Under Ground
(New York: Doubleday, 1970)
A Dog's Ransom
(New York: Knopf, 1972)
Ripley's Game
(New York: Knopf, 1974)
Edith's Diary
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977)
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
(New York: Lippincott & Crowell, 1980)
People Who Knock on the Door
(New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1985)
Found in the Street
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987)
Ripley Under Water
(New York: Knopf, 1992)
Small g: A Summer Idyll
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2004)
Short Story Collections
The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories
(UK title:
Eleven
; New York: Doubleday, 1970)
The Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murder
(New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1986)
Little Tales of Misogyny
(New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1986)
Slowly, Slowly in the Wind
(New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1979)
The Black House
(New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1988)
Mermaids on the Golf Course
(New York: Otto Penzler Books, 1988)
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987)
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2001)
Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2002)
Non-Fiction
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
(Boston: The Writer, Inc., 1966)
Children's Literature
Miranda the Panda Is on the Veranda
(Doris Sanders, illustrations by PH; New York: Coward-McCann, 1958)
Secondary Sources
All journals, magazines, articles, published and unpublished interviews (by and about Highsmith), comic books, and Web sites are cited in the end-notes.
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Abbott, Berenice
Aboudaram, Marion
quoted
Aboudaram, Mme (mother of Marion)
Abstract Expressionists
Acapulco
Adam's Rib
(film)
Addison, Joseph, and Richard Steele
Adler, Stella
adoptions
Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck
(first comic book in America)
Africa
AIDS (theme)
Aimée (in Katmandou bar)
Alabama
Albert, Gerald
Alcott, Louisa May,
Little Women
Aldeburgh, Sussex
PH residence at 27 King Street
Aldo's, Greenwich Village
Aleichem, Sholem
Alford, Millie (PH's third cousin)
Almodóvar, Pedro
Alpnach, Austria
Alsop, Dr.
Alter Egos (comic book characters)
Ambach, near Munich
America
foreign policy
Golden Years of
native art forms of
PH distressed by the 1960s
PH loses touch with, after prolonged absence
PH retains citizenship
PH yearning for
self-help urge in
too expensive for PH
American artists, self-exile in Europe
American Civil War
American Film Festival, Deauville, France
American Friend, The
(film)
American Revolution
American Studies
America's Best Comics
Ames, Elizabeth
Amis, Kingsley
Amman, Tobias
amour fusionnel
Andrews, Michael
Angelopoulos, Theodoros
Animal-Lover's Book of Beastly Murders, The
(PH short-story collection)
Ann T. (lover)
anti-Semitism, PH's
Arabs
PH's feelings about
Archers, The
(radio show)
Arendt, Hannah
Anti-Semitism,
Argument of Tantalus, The
(working title)
Aristotle
Arrid Deodorant Company
Arthur, Esther Murphy
Ascona, Switzerland
Ashcroft, Peggy
Ashmead, Larry
“As If Dead” (unfinished story)
A. S. Lyons agency
Astoria, Queens
Highsmith home at Twenty-eighth Street
Highsmith home at 1919 Twenty-first Road
Astoria Park
Aswell, Mary Louise
Athens
Atlantic Monthly Press
At the Back of the Mirror
(unused title)
Atwood, Margaret
Auchinclaus, Mrs. Samuel
Auden, W. H.
Auld, Dr.
Aurigeno, Switzerland
PH's house in
Austen, Jane
Austen Riggs mental institution
Austria
Autant-Lara, Claude
Ax-Bax bar
Â
Babbin, Jaqueline
Babs (classmate at Barnard)
“Baby Spoon” (PH story)
Bach, J. S.
Bacon, Francis
Study Number 6
Baer, Babs
Bagnold, Enid,
Call Me Jacky
Bails, Jerry
Baldwin, James
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola)
Barbara (poet)
Barbaras, the two
“Barbarians, The” (PH story)
Barcelona
Barnard College
Barnard Quarterly
Barnes, Djuna
Nightwood
Barney, Natalie
Barthes, Roland
Bartolini pensione
Barylski, Agnes
Barylski, Georges
Basel
Kantonspital
Batman
Battefield, Ken
Batten, John
Bayreuth Festival
BBC
Beach, Sylvia
Beatles
Beats
Beaumont, Germaine
Beauvoir, Simone de
Beckett, Samuel
Bedford, Sybille
A Visit to Don Otavio
Quicksands
Belcher, Muriel
Bell, Daniel
Belle Ombre (fictional house of Tom Ripley)
Belle Ombre
(play)
Bellinzona, Switzerland
Bell Laboratories
Bellman, Allen
Bellow, Saul
The Victim
Bemelmans, Ludwig
Bemelmans, Madeleine
Benjamin, Walter
Benny, Jack
Bentley, Edmond Clerihew
Bentley (character)
Berch, Bettina
Berger, Jack
Bergler, Edmund
Bergman, Ingmar
Berkshire Hills, Mass.
Berlin
nightlife
Wall
zoo, visit to
Berlin Film Festival
PH selected president of the jury
Bern, Switzerland
Bernard Tuft (character)
Bernhard, Lucian
Bernhard, Ruth
Bernstein, Leonard
Besterman, Caroline (pseudonym)
first encounters
PH meets and falls in love
quoted
Better comics
Betty (Ann Smith's lover)
Betty the Nurse
(comic book)
“Between Jane Austen and Philby” (PH essay)
Bible, PH's gift of, to a newborn
Bicycle Thief, The
Bigelow, Kathryn
Billie (lover)
Binder, Otto
biographers, called “circling vultures,”
biography
innovative form of, in this book
traditional chronological style of
Woolf's prescription for writing of
“Birds Posed to Fly, The” (PH story)
Bissinger, Karl
Bizarro World
Black House, The
(PH short-story collection)
Black Mask Magazine
Black Terror
(comic book)
Blasphemy of Laughter
(unused title)
Blitzstein, Marc
Block, Michel
blood, crocodile
Bloomingdale's
Bloomingdale Story, The
(unused title)
Bloomington, Ind.
Bloomsbury
Bluebird
(high school literary magazine)
Blumenschein, Tabea
dictionary to be delivered to
first meetings with
Blumenthal, A. C.
Blunderer, The
(PH novel)
film of
film scripts for
Blythe, Ronald
Akenfield
letters to
PH meets
Bob Son of Battle
(children's book)
Boileau and Narcejac
Bois Fontaine
Bompiani publisher
Booth, John Wilkes
“Born Failure” (PH story)
Boulanger, Nadia
Bowles, Jane
Bowles, Paul
Box Canyon Ranch, Weatherford, Texas
Boyle, Kay
Boy Who Followed Ripley, The
(PH novel)
Bradley, Mme Jenny
Brandel, Marc
The Choice
PH's affair with
second wife of
Brandt, Carl
“Breeder, The” (PH story)
Brennan, Hank
Breton, André
Bridge Cottage.
See
Earl Soham
Bridgeman, George,
The Human Machine
Brillheart, Florence
Broadwater, Bowden
Brompton Hospital, London
Brontë, Emily
Brookner, Anita
Brooks, Louise
Brooks Brothers
Brophy, Brigid
Brown, Rita Mae,
Rubyfruit Jungle
Browne, Sir Thomas,
Religio Medici
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Browning, Tod,
Freaks
(film)
Broyard, Anatole,
Kafka Was the Rage
Brunhoff, Jean de
Bruno (character).
See
Charles Anthony Bruno
Bryant, Anita
Buck, Joan Juliet
Bucks County, Pa.
Bucks County Life
magazine
Buffet, Monique
Burke, France
Burra, Edward
Burroughs, William
Burton, Richard (scholar)
Bush, George H. W.
Butler, Nicholas Murray
Butterfield, Camilla (pseudonym)
“Button, The” (PH story)
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Cache, Sonya
Cadogan Hotel, Paris
Café de Flore, Paris
Café Nicholson, New York City
Cagnes-sur-Mer
cahiers (notebooks), PH's
distinguished from diaries
first, started in 1938
cahiers (notebooks)
(continued)
found after her death
now in Swiss Literary Archives
subjects not recorded in
useful material for fiction mined from
vast extent of
Cain, James M.
Calder, Liz
California
Calisher, Hortense
Calmann, Robert
Calmann-Lévy, Robert
Calmann-Lévy (publisher)
Calvinism
Camel cigarettes
Cameron, Polly
Campbell, Alan
Cannes
Canter, John
Capote, Truman
Other Voices, Other Rooms
Capri
Captain America
Captain Marvel
Captain Midnight
(comic book)
“Car, The” (PH story)
Carnegie, Hattie
Carol
(European title of
Price of Salt
)
Carol Aird, the Ice Queen (character)
Carroll, Lewis,
Alice in Wonderland
Carstairs, Jo
Carter, Angela
Casa Highsmith, Tegna, Switzerland
Castillo, Margot and Tonio
Cather, Willa
Catherine the Great
Catherwood, Cummins
Catherwood, Virginia Kent (“Ginnie”)
character based on
Catholicism
Cauvin, Claire
Cavendish Hotel, London
Cellar, The
(TV script)
Cervantes
Chabon, Michael
Chabrol, Claude
Chambrelent, Bénédicte
Chambrelent, Frédérique
Chambrelent, Mme (Frédérique's mother)
Champion, The
(comic book)
Chandler, Raymond
Chanel, Gabrielle
Chaney, Stewart
characters, PH's
based on PH's lovers and acquaintances, sometimes as revenge
little sex had by
Charles Anthony Bruno (character)
Charlotte (cat)
charts, PH's
Chasen, Heather
Chasen, Rupert
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cher, Patricia
Cheshire Cat
Chicago
Chicago Daily News
children
murders by
PH's interest in, and rejection of
children's literature, PH's
Child's Restaurant, Times Square, New York City
Chloe (model, lover)
“Chorus Girl's Absolutely Final Performance” (PH story)
Christian fundamentalism (theme)
Christianity
Christian Science
Christie, Agatha
Christmas
church choirs, PH singing in
Cinema Comics
Clapp, Susannah
Clara
Clarke, Gerald
classics, Greek, PH's study of
Claude (Rosalind Constable's lover)
Clément, René
Cleo (character)
Click of the Shutting, The
(PH novel, unfinished)
Cliffie (character)
Cline, Patsy
clues, dropping of
Coach and Horses club, London
Coates, Andrew Jackson
Coates, Claude (PH's uncle)
Coates, Dan (PH's cousin)
(1943) visits to New York
biography
death of
Coates, Daniel (PH's uncle)
Coates, Daniel Hokes (PH's maternal grandfather)
Coates, Dan Oscar (PH's cousin)
Coates, Dan Walton (PH's grandnephew)
Coates, Don (PH's grandnephew)
Coates, Florine (Dan's wife)
Coates, Gideon (PH's great-grandfather)
Coates, House
Coates, Mary.
See
Highsmith, Mary Coates Coates, Robert M. (novelist, unrelated to PH)
Coates, Willie Mae Stewart (PH's maternal grandmother)
(1943) visit to New York
biography
boardinghouse of
care of PH while mother Mary was in New York City
death of
influence on PH
PH and Mary's competition for love of
wrote to FDR
Coates family
PH's inheritances from
religious history of
Coates Hotel, Fort Worth
Coats' Bend, Ala.
Coats family, name changed to Coates
Coats' Mansion, Coats' Bend, Ala.
cockroaches (theme)
Cocteau, Jean
Cohen, Dennis
Cohen, Kathryn Hamill
Cohen, Roger (French inspector)
Cohen-Séat, Jeanne-Ãtienne