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-Étienne
Colette
collections of PH
sharpened instruments
Collins, Floyd
Collins, Wilkie
Colony Room, London
Columbia Pictures
Comden, Betty
comic books
Golden Age of
PH’s writing for
Communists
Companya Teatre de Barcelona
Compton-Burnett, Ivy
concealment, PH’s taste for
Condé Nast
Confederate swords, PH’s
Connolly, Cyril
Conrad, Joseph
Outcast of the Islands
Constable, Rosalind
Constance Smith Associates
Contemporary Lesbian Writers
Coogan, Jackie
Cook, Paul
Cooper, James Fenimore
Cooper, Lady Diana
Copenhagen
Cornell, Allela
character based on
suicide of
Cornell, Katharine
Corvo, Baron
Cosmopolitan magazine
Costello, Frank
Coventry, Stanley
Cover to Cover (TV program)
Coward, Noël
Coward-McCann
Cowles, Fleur
Craig’s Wife (film)
Cralick, Jeva
Crane, Hart
Cresset Press
Crete
“Cries of Love, The” (PH story)
“Crime Begins” (PH story)
Crime Writers Association
criminal-heroes, PH’s
Crisco and Jasper (comic book)
Criss Cross (unused title)
Crockett, Davy
crocodiles
Cry of the Owl, The (PH novel)
film adaptation of
Cuernavaca
Cummings, Constance
Cunard, Nancy
Curry, Betty
Curtiss, Mina Kirstein
Dahmer, Jeffrey
Dallas, Texas
Danesi, Ester
Daniels, Robert Murl
Dante
David, Jean (“Jeannot”)
stepdaughter of
David Kelsey (character)
Davis, Bette
Davis, George
DC comic books
de Acosta, Mercedes
Deadly Innocence, A (unused title)
Deauville, France
De Bernardi, Vivien
Decherd, Elizabeth (PH’s great-grandmother)
Decherd, Ellen
Decherd/Deckerd family
Deep Water (PH novel)
Deep Water (screenplay)
de Jouvenel, Colette
de Lanux, Eyre
Del Notaro, Dr.
Delon, Alain
de Monocol, Angelica
Dennis, Patrick, Auntie Mame
Depardieu, Gérard
Der Amerikanische freund. See American Friend
Derwatt (character)
Derwatt Resurrected (idea for television play)
Desert Hearts (film)
Desert Island Discs (radio show)
desks, PH’s
Destroyer, The (comic book)
Deutsch, Helene
de Wolfe, Elsie
“Dialogue Between My Mother and Myself” (PH essay)
Diamond, David
diaries (journals), PH’s
distinguished from notebooks
earliest
found after her death
now in Swiss Literary Archives
truthfulness of, question as to
Dickens, Charles
Dickie Greenleaf (character)
Die gläserne Zelle (film)
Diener, Bert
Diener-Diethelm, Julia
Dietrich, Marlene
Diogenes Verlag
black and yellow crime series
Dione (lover)
disguises
Dites-lui que je l’aime (film)
Ditko, Steve
Ditmars Boulevard
Dobrochek, Jim
Doctorow, E. L.
Dodge, Mabel
Dodson, Owen
Dog in the Manger (unused title)
Dog’s Ransom, A (PH novel)
Domodosilla
Donenfeld, Harry
Doris (advertising copywriter, lover, Lynn Roth’s ex)
Dorothy (frog)
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
House of the Dead
Doubleday
double identities
Dove, Geoffrey
Dove Descending, The (PH novel, unfinished)
Doyle, Arthur Conan
Sherlock Holmes Stories
Doylestown, Pa., prison
Dracula (children’s book)
Dreiser, Theodore
drinking, in the 1940s
drowning, fear of
Duchess bar, New York City
Duncan, Isadora
Dupont, Joan
Duveen, Annie
Duveen, Sir Joseph
Earl Soham, Sussex
(1963) PH rents cottage in
Bridge Cottage in
Eastern News/Eastern Color
East Hampton, N.Y.
East River
East Village Other
Eddy, Mary Baker
Eddy and Ruthie
Edgar (snail)
Edith Howland (character)
Edith’s Diary (PH novel)
published
TV film made from
Ediths Tagebuch (TV film)
“Edna,” “Jordy,” and “Jeff” (dedicatees)
Edson, Dorothy Wheelock
Edwards, Jonathan
Eighth Street, Greenwich Village, New York City
Einstein, Albert
Eisner, Will
Eisner-Iger comic shop
Eleven (PH short-story collection)
Eliot, T. S.
Elizabeth I of England
Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine (EQMM)
Ellmann, Richard, biography of Oscar Wilde
El’s (L’s) bar, Greenwich Village
Elsie’s Love of Life (German title for Found in the Street)
Emmanuelle (pseudonym)
“Empty Birdhouse, The” (PH story)
Endless Caverns in Virginia
England, PH’s choice of country to live in
English language
Enough Rope (film)
Epstein, Jacob, monument for Oscar Wilde
erotic films, PH’s discomfort at
erotic toys
Europe
American artists and writers in
makes one feel young
PH prefers
PH publicity tours of
PH’s escape to
European Magazine
Evening Standard (London)
Eversol, Tex
Evil Twin
EXIT euthanasia society
Fago, D’Anne
Fago, Vince
Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr.
fans of P
H, peculiar behavior of
Farson, Daniel
Fast, Howard
Fawcett company
Fawkes, Sandy
Fears, Peggy
Fedora, Greenwich Village
Feiffer, Jules
feminism, PH’s brand of
Ferres, Al
Ferres, Betty
Feuillère, Edwige
FFF Publications
Fiedler, Leslie
“Come Back to the Raft Ag’in, Huck Honey,”
Love and Death in the American Novel
Field, Eugene, “The Duel,”
Fighting Yank (comic book)
Figueroa, Fidel (of Taxco)
films
adaptations of PH’s work
erotic, PH’s discomfort at
PH’s view of
Finale, Greenwich Village
Fine, Lou
Finger, Bill
Fire Island, N.Y.
Fireside Lodge, Fort Worth
First Person Novel, The (unfinished novel)
Fisketjon, Gary
Fitzgerald, Scott
The Great Gatsby
Flair,
Flanner, Janet
Florence
Fontainebleau
Fontainebleau Forest
food, PH’s disturbance with
Forbes, Malcolm
Ford, Charles Henri
Ford, Harry
forgery, PH’s, of her diaries
forgery (plot theme)
of art
Forio
“Fortresses of Solitude,”
Fortune magazine
Fort Worth, Texas
Coates boardinghouse at 603 West Daggett Avenue
Highsmith family briefly return to (1929)
PH born in
PH visits to
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Foss, Lukas
Found in the Street (PH novel)
German-language version
France
PH’s choice of country to live in
tax laws
Frank (Rolf Tietgens’s boyfriend)
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Franklin, Benjamin, Poor Richard’s Almanack
Frank Pierson (character)
Fraser, Antonia
Frayn, Michael
French club, London
French language
Freud, Lucian
Freud, Sigmund
Freudianism
Fröbe, Gert
Fromm, Erich
The Art of Loving
Fruit Tramp, The (unused title)
“Fully-Licensed Whore, The” (PH story)
furniture making, PH’s
Further Tales of Misogyny (unused title)
Gable, Clark
“Galahad in L.A., A” (PH essay)
Galen
Game for the Living, A (PH novel)
Gamma magazine
Gant, Roland
Ganz, Bruno
Garbage (unused title)
Garbo, Greta
Garden, Mary
gardening, PH’s
Garnett, Constance
Garrigue, Jean
Gateways bar, London
gay characters
Geissendörfer, Hans
Genet, Jean
Geneva
genitalia
male, PH’s interest in
mutilated, of monument to Oscar Wilde
Genoa
George Stephanost (character)
German language
German-language publication
Germans
Germany
Gershon (Lassally), Alice
Ghost (comic book)
ghost story, PH’s
Gide, André
The Counterfeiters, xiii
Gielgud, John
gifts to lovers, PH’s
Gill, Trudi
Gina (lived with Natica Waterbury)
Ginsberg, Allen
Giordano’s Restaurant, New York City
Girl’s Book (unused title)
Glanville, Brian
Glass Cell, The (PH novel)
film made from
Glendenning, Victoria
God
many references to, in PH’s diaries and notebooks
petitions to
relevance to PH
Goedel, Peter
Goethe
Goetz, Augustus and Ruth
Goldbeck, Cecil
Goldbeck, Willis
Goldberg, Ben-Zion
Golden Arrow (comic book)
Goldfarb, Alex (Josef Peters)
Goldfarb, Mickey
Goldman, Emma
Golem
Gone with the Wind (film)
Good Housekeeping magazine
Gordon, Dan
Göring, Hermann
“Gossip, The” (PH story)
Gottlieb, Dr. Arnold
Gottlieb, Robert
Grafisk Ferlag
Graham, Martha
Gramercy Park, New York City
Grand Prix de la littérature policière
Grand Prix de l’Humeur Noir
Granger, Farley
Grant (lover)
Granta
Greece
Greek Games of 1939 (at Barnard College)
Green, Adolph
Green, Julien
Si j’étais vous
Greene, Graham
Greene Street, New York City
Greenleaf. See Dickie Greenleaf
Greenwich Village, New York City
as theme
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
Gregory Bullick (character)
Greta Reynolds (character)
Grier, Barbara
Grimm fairy tales
Grosser, Maurice
Grove Street, New York City
Guadalupe River
Guardian magazine
Gucci
Gudrun (lover)
Guggenheim, Peggy
snubs PH
guilt, in PH writings
Gutheil, Dr.
Guy Haines (character)
Haggard, Rider
hair, PH’s
Hakim, Raymond
Hakim, Robert
Halma, Harold
Hamburg
Hamill, Katherine
Hamilton, Mr. (surgeon)
Hamilton-Paterson, James
Hamilton watch and chain
Hammamet, Tunisia
Hammett, Dashiell
“Hamsters vs. Websters” (PH story)
Handke, Peter
Harbourfront festival, Toronto
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Hardy, Thomas
Hargreaves, Dorothy
Harmsworth, Alfred Charles
Harmsworth, Madeleine
Harnack, Curtis
Harper & Brothers
Harper Novel of Suspense
Harper & Row
Harper’s Bazaar
harpsichord, PH’s wish to play
Harris, Frank
Harrison, Barbara
“Harry: A Ferret” (PH story)
Harry’s Bar, Venice
Hart, Moss
Hartley, L. P.
Hartman, Liena (PH’s paternal great-grandmother)
Hartman, Minna (PH’s paternal grandmother)
Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Hattie and Alice (characters)
Hauser, Ernst
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hayden, Terese
Hazelwood, Carl
HB Studios, Greenwich Village
Hearst, William Randolph
Heath, A. M.
Heinemann
Helen (classmate at Barnard)
Hell Gate
Hell Gate Bridge
“Hell on Wheels” (PH story)
Heloise Plisson (character)
Hemingway, Ernest
Henry (dachshund)
Henry Street Settlement House
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Herbert L. (lover)
Herbst, Josephine
Hérisson, Janine
Hermès
“Heroine, The” (PH story)
Heumann, Rainer
Hidalgo del Parral
High School of Music and Art, New York City
Highsmith, Henry (black man, unrelated to PH)
Highsmith, Mary Coates (mother)
(1921) divorces J. B. Plangman shortly before PH’s birth
(1959) trip in Europe with PH
(1965) visits London unexpectedly
(1974) deteriorating state of
(1975) accidentally sets Texas house on fire, and is installed in a care facility
(1991) death at age ninety-five
antagonism of PH toward
believed that PH should have been an actress
biography
book dedications to
career
Christian Science belief
cruel letters from and to PH
deteriorated state of, in nursing home
friendships of
in Paris
in PH’s early will
PH’s “love” for
PH’s reversal of feeling for
prying of
revealed authorship of
Price of Salt
“shattering” effect on PH
women who remind PH of
Highsmith, Patricia
“awfulness” of presence of
bad health of
birthday of
catalogue of possessions now stored in Swiss Literary Archives
characters based on
constant house moves of
dirty jokes of
double life of, as writer and liver of life
double taxation on
drinking of
food avoided by
handwriting (hieroglyphics)
helpful people surrounding
“a horrible human being”
as a hostess
as a houseguest
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