The Talented Miss Highsmith
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First of all and I think you will agree—PAT IS SICK. Somewhere along the line she is insecure, unsure and completely swayed by women older than herself whom I have met and loathe[d] on sight—Rosalind [Constable], [Elizabeth] Lyne, [Lil] Picard and the like…. It’s the last person Pat is with who has the influence. She is exactly like a chamelian [sic] changing colors and turning on a good friend as tho mesmerized…. Can you figure her out…. I think Pat is wearing a very uncomfortable hair-shirt of her own designing…. I can only wait—I still have faith in Pat, I brought her up and I know her background.
9. CWA Josyane Savigneau, 1 July 2002.
10. CWA Phyllis Nagy, 13 Oct. 2002.
11. Ibid.
12. PH letter to KKS, 31 May 1989.
13. Don Swaim, Book Notes, Oct. 1987.
14. Diary 1, July 7, 1941.
15. PH letter to Nini Wills, 9 Mar. 1972.
16. MCH letter to PH, 10 May 1972.
17. Cahier 36, 2/11/87.
18. PH letter to MCH, 9 April 1971.
19. Cahier 9, PH transcription from high school notebooks, July 1937.
20. PH letter to DOC, 26 Dec. 1968.
21. Alain Oulman letters to PH, 3 Dec. 1979 and 8 Feb. 1980. PH letters to Alain Oulman, 21 Aug. 1979 and 10 Feb. 1980 (CLA).
22. PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 23 Aug. 1970.
23. PH letter to BKS, 24–25 Oct. 1970.
24. CWA Claire Cauvin, 4 July 2002.
25. PH letter to BKS, 1 Mar. 1972.
26. PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 10 Sept. 1973.
27. CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2003.
28. CWA Marion Aboudaram, 23 Sept. 2002.
29. PH letter to MB, 2 July 1980.
30. Cahier 34, 12 Aug. 1978.
31. CWA Phyllis Nagy, 13 Oct. 2002.
32. PH letter to Florine Coates, 9 July 1994.
33. CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2003.
34. KKS letter to the author, 16 Jan. 2003.
35. PH, The Traffic of Jacob’s Ladder, manuscript fragment.
36. Don Swaim, Book Notes, Oct. 1987.
37. PH letter to Bettina Berch, 17 May 1984.
38. PH letter to Abe Janssens, piano player at the Hotel Normandy in Deauville, France, 15 Oct. 1987.
39. Cahier 30, 11/9/69.
40. PH letter to Lil Picard, 11 June 1969 (UIL).
41. CWA Christa Maerker, 21 July 2004.
42. Cahier 21, 11/30/52.
43. PH letter to Ellen Blumenthal Hill, 30–31 Jan. 1982.
44. CWA Bettina Berch, 10 Aug. 2003.
45. PH letter to KKS, 7 May 1989.
46. PH letter to Bettina Berch, 13 Apr. 1984.
47. Donald Swaim, Book Notes, Oct. 1987.
48. CWA Bettina Berch, 10 Aug. 2003.
49. Ibid.
50. Ibid.
51. PH letter to Bettina Berch, 21 July 1984.
52. Bettina Berch, introduction to unpublished interview, “A Talk with Patricia Highsmith,” 15 June 1984.
53. Bettina Berch, “A Talk with Patricia Highsmith,” pp. 10, 17.
54. CWA Vince Fago, 28 Nov. 2001.
55. PH letter to Marijane Meaker, 18 Oct. 1988 (Collection Marijane Meaker).
56. CWA Josyane Savigneau, 1 July 2002.
57. Patricia Schartle Myrer letter to PH, 21 Aug. 1979.
32. The Real Romance of Objects: Part 2
1. On 18 October 1973, Pat’s literary agency in Paris, the William Bradley Agency, wrote her: “According to your final instructions, we have just asked Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. here to transfer to your account with S.R.M. Management, E. D. Sassoon, Nassau, Bahamas, the film monies received from Film Number one and Glan Productions for The Tremor of Forgery.”
2. PH letter to KKS, 25 Aug. 1969.
3. CWA Samuel Okoshken, 25 June 2003.
4. PH letter to Monique Buffet, 14 Jan. 1980 (Collection Monique Buffet).
5. Ibid., 9 Oct. 1979 (Collection MB).
6. Ibid., 14 Jan. 1980 (Collection MB).
7. CWA Samuel Okoshken, 25 June 2003.
8. PH letter to Monique Buffet, 14 Jan. 1980 (Collection Monique Buffet).
9. CWA Samuel Okoshken, 25 June 2003.
10. PH, The Tremor of Forgery, pp. 139–40.
11. PH letter to DOC, 9 Nov. 1969.
12. PH letter to KKS, 9 July 1973.
13. CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2003.
14. PH letter to BKS, 31 Mar. 1980.
15. PH letter to MB, 29 Mar. 1980 (Collection Monique Buffet).
16. Ibid.
17. PH letter to BKS, 19 June 1980.
18. Ibid., 31 March 1980.
19. CWA Samuel Okoshken, 25 Aug. 2003.
20. CWA MB, 7 Apr. 2003.
21. Paul Bowles letter to PH, 23 Feb. 1990.
22. PH letter to MB, 28–29 Mar. 1980 (Collection Monique Buffet).
23. PH, Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1990), p. 143.
24. Ibid.
25. PH, Edith’s Diary, p. 296.
26. PH letter to MB, 28–29 Mar. 1980 (Collection Monique Buffet).
27. Ibid.
28. CWA Marion Aboudaram, 21 Sept. 2002. Also CWA Christa Maerker, 27 July 2008.
29. Cahier 31, 8/25/71.
30. Ibid.
31. CWA KKS, 20 Dec. 2002.
32. Cahier 31, 8/25/71.
33. PH letter to MB, 9–10 Apr. 1980 (Collection Monique Buffet).
34. Ibid.
35. CWA Marylin Scowden, 1 Sept. 2002.
36. Diary 16, Jan. 17, 1970.
37. PH letter to DOC, 9 Nov. 1969.
38. Rosalind Constable letter to PH, 15 Jan. 1968.
39. Cahier 30, 8/13/69.
40. Cahier 30, 7/29/68.
41. Rosalind Constable letter to PH, 3 Mar. 1968.
42. Ibid., 14 Nov. 1969.
43. CWA MB, 25 Aug. 2004.
44. PH letter to Bettina Berch, 4 Sept. 1985.
45. CWA Daniel Keel, 20 Mar. 2003.
46. CWA Alex Szogyi, 11 Dec. 2001.
47. CWA Robert Lumpkin, 1 Aug. 2004.
48. Andrew Wilson, Beautiful Shadow (London: Bloomsbury, 2003), p. 341.
49. Ibid., p. 388.
50. Cahier 35, 6/1/83.
51. PH letter to Bettina Berch, 14 Feb. 1986.
52. Barbara Skelton, “Patricia Highsmith at Home,” The London Magazine, Aug.-Sept. 1995.
53. PH, The Talented Mr. Ripley, p. 49.
54. PH, The Boy Who Followed Ripley, pp. 63–64.
55. Ibid., p. 64.
56. Cahier 13, 8/12/45.
33. The Real Romance of Objects: Part 3
1. CWA Phyllis Nagy, 26 June 2002.
34. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part I
1. The Animal-Lovers Book of Beastly Murder, Little Tales of Misogyny, Slowly, Slowly in the Wind, Mermaids on the Golf Course, The Black House.
2. CWA Otto Penzler, 23 Dec. 2002.
3. Ibid., 27 Dec. 2002.
4. Ibid.
5. David Streitfeld, “Highsmith’s Final Twist,” Washington Post, 8 Mar. 1988.
6. David Streitfeld, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 1989.
7. David Streitfeld letter to the author, 2 Jan. 2006.
8. CWA Otto Penzler, 27 Dec. 2002.
9. CWA Daniel Keel, 12 Apr. 2003.
35. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 2
1. Diary, 17, 18 Sept. 1988.
2. PH letters to Tobias Amman, 1988–90.
3. Cahier 22, 3/1/52 (misdated in cahier; it’s 1953).
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid.
8. PH letter to MB, 11 Oct. 1982 (Collection Monique Buffet).
9. CWA Wim Wenders, 20 Sept. 2006.
10. CWA Daniel Keel, 20 Mar. and 12 Apr. 2003. It could hardly have escaped Pat’s attention that, with Daniel Keel, she added another Daniel to the long line of Daniels that had been her Coates family inheritance.
11. CWA Mari
anne Liggenstorfer-Fritsch, 20 Mar. 2003.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. PH letter to Dr. Girsberger, 19 Dec. 1991.
16. PH letter to KKS, 20 Dec. 1987.
17. PH letter to MB, 2 Feb 1988 (Collection Monique Buffet).
18. Ibid.
19. PH letter to Barbara Skelton, quoted in Skelton, “Patricia Highsmith at Home.”
20. PH letter to KKS, 25 Apr. 1992.
21. Liz Calder, “Patricia Highsmith,” Oldie, Mar. 1995.
22. CWA Marylin Scowden, 1 Sept. 2002.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Cahier 35, 1/15/80.
26. CWA Daniel Keel, 20 Mar. 2003.
27. Ibid.
28. PH, “Winter in the Ticino,” in Ticking Along with the Swiss, edited by Dianne Dicks (Basel: Bergli Books, 1988).
29. CWA David Streiff, 19 Sept. 2002.
30. PH, “Winter in the Ticino.”
31. Ibid.
32. PH letter to KKS, 20 Mar. 1984.
33. PH, “Winter in the Ticino.”
34. Cahier 37, 6/10/88.
35. Ibid., 12/5/89.
36. PH letter to KKS, 15 May 1978.
37. Ibid., 14 May 1983.
38. PH letter to Anne Uhde, 6 Mar. 1983.
39. PH letter to Patricia Losey, 16 Apr. 1984.
40. PH, “Winter in the Ticino.”
41. CWA David Streiff, 30 July 2002.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. Ibid.
45. Documentary film, David Streiff, outtakes, Switzerland, 1991.
46. Cahier 30, 12/12/68.
47. PH, Strangers on a Train, p. 251.
48. Ibid., pp. 180–81.
49. PH, The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), p. 410.
50. Ibid., p. 414.
51. Ibid., p. 416.
52. Cahier 34, 4/30/77.
53. Ibid., 7/25/77.
54. Ibid., 12/10/77.
55. Skelton, “Patricia Highsmith at Home.”
36. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 3
1. Cahier 36, 10/18/83.
2. Ibid., 3/24/84.
3. Ibid., 4/16/84.
4. Ibid., 4/7/83.
5. Ibid., 10/12/84.
6. CWA Muriel Spark, 24 May 2005.
7. Anita Brookner, “Found in the Street,” Spectator, 19 Apr. 1986.
8. Alain Oulman letter to PH, 19 Aug. 1985 (CLA).
9. Terrence Rafferty, “Found in the Street,” The New Yorker, 4 Jan. 1988.
10. Francis Wyndham, “Miss Highsmith,” New Statesman, 31 May 1963.
11. Julian Symons, Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History (London: Faber & Faber, 1972), p. 178.
12. Ibid.
13. PH letter to KKS, 8 Mar. 1988.
14. CWA Anne Morneweg, 22 Jan. 2004.
15. PH, Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes (London: Bloomsbury, 2005), p. 19.
16. CWA Phyllis Nagy, 13 Oct. 2002.
17. Cahier 37, 2/21/90 and 5/20/90.
18. CWA Jack Klaff, 14 Jan. 2004.
19. Cahier 35, 11/24/79.
20. Cahier 36, 4/15/87.
21. CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003, and Don Coates, 20 Apr. 2002.
22. PH, Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes, p. 139.
23. PH letter to KKS, 9 Sept. 1985.
24. MCH letter to PH, 31 Sept. 1974.
25. CWA Christa Maerker, 21 July 2004.
26. Jeva Cralick letter to Dan and Florine Coates, Christmas, 1978.
27. Ibid., 12 Mar. 1987.
37. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 4
1. PH letter to Gore Vidal, 6 July 1979.
2. Paul Bowles letter to PH, 15 Dec. 1991.
3. PH letter to Gore Vidal, 29 Jan. 1988.
4. Cyril Connolly, “Koestler at Sixty,” Sunday Times, 19 Sept. 1965.
5. Cahier 37, 8/19/88.
6. Ibid., 8/29/88.
7. CWA Edmund White, 19 Aug. 2006.
8. Edmund White, “Paul Bowles,” in Arts and Letters (San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004).
9. Cahier 35, 1/9/88.
10. Stéphanie Cudré-Mauroux, “Tom Ripley, collectionneur et psychopathe,” Studer, Bärlach, Ripley, Gunten & Co., Quarto, revue des Archives littéraires suisses, 21–22, 2006.
11. Cahier 37, 12/5/89.
12. PH letters to KKS, 16 and 28 Oct. 1988.
13. CWA Peter Goedel, 16 June 2002. All subsequent quotations concerning Goedel’s dealings with PH are from this 16 June interview, unless otherwise attributed.
14. CWA Richard Schroeder, 19 Jan. 2004.
15. PH letter to Patricia Losey, 7 Jan. 1989.
16. PH postcard to Peter Goedel, undated (Collection Peter Goedel).
38. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 5
1. Cahier 36, 26/1/87.
2. Ibid., 29/1/87.
3. Ibid., 25/1/87.
4. Ibid., 20/8/87.
5. Ibid., 25/9/87.
6. Ibid., 4/3/84.
7. CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2002.
8. PH letter to KKS, 1 Sept. 1990.
9. Ibid., 25 Apr. 1990.
10. Ibid., 26 Aug. 1987.
11. Cahier 32, 1/26/70.
12. CWA Heather Chasen, 22 Sept. 2002.
13. CWA Alex Szogyi, 11 Dec. 2001.
14. Ibid.
15. PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 22 Mar. 1973.
16. Alex Szogyi letter to PH, 19 June 1978.
17. PH letter to Lil Picard, 23 Oct. 1974 (UIL).
18. PH letter to KKS, 1 Dec. 1986.
19. CWA Peter Huber, 18 Apr. 2003.
20. PH letter to KKS, 30 Dec. 1987.
21. CWA Peter Huber, 18 Apr. 2003.
22. PH letter to KKS, 27 May 1991.
23. Cahier 37, 30/6/91.
24. Cahier 37, 14/3/92.
25. PH letter to KKS, 24 Apr. 1990.
26. PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 22–23 Jan. 1972.
27. Marc Brandel letter to PH, 6 Jan. 1987.
28. Ibid., 17 Nov. 1979.
29. Cahier 36, 27/8/86.
30. Cahier 36, Brompton Account, April–July 1986. The entire history of Pat’s lung operation is taken from two pages in Cahier 36, labelled Brompton Account.
31. The Cry of the Owl, Edith’s Diary, Found in the Street, A Game for the Living, Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes, Those Who Walk Away, The Tremor of Forgery, The Two Faces of January, Eleven.
32. CWA Anne Elizabeth Suter, 8 July 2004.
33. CWA Gary Fisketjon, 10 Dec. 2002.
34. CWA Phyllis Nagy, 13 Oct. 2002.
The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 6
1. Rosalind Constable letter to PH, 21 Feb. 1983.
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 1978–22 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 Peter 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, 10/10–13/92.
23. Lucretia Stewart, “Animal Lover’s Beastly Murders,” Sunday Telegraph, 8 Sept. 1991.
24. Ibid.
25. Cahier 37, 10/10–13/92.
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.