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The Talented Miss Highsmith

Page 90

by Joan Schenkar


  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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