The Talented Miss Highsmith
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ideas prolific “as rats’ orgasms”
interviews with
a libertarian
library of, in Swiss Literary Archives
liquid nourishment of
love affairs. See
love affairs, PH’s magnetism of
making furniture
many selves of
name of Highsmith, doubtful legality of
name of Mary
name of Patsy Plangman
perversity of, in the upside-down sense
photographs of
pseudonyms adopted by, for writing letters of political opinion
psychoanalysis of
ranting of
reading obsessively
religious family background
religiousness of
settlement of estate
a smoker
smuggler of snails
toughness of
and trains
travels
unconventional ideas of
wants only “the best”
wills of. See wills of PH
writing process
Highsmith, Patricia, appearance
absence of neck
beauty of youth, ravaged by the years
clothing, elegance of
complexion as she aged
large hands
mistaken for a man, and directed to men’s lavatory
small breasts
Highsmith, Patricia, biography (1921) birth, name Mary Patricia Highsmith
(1921–26) raised in Coates house in Fort Worth, Texas
(1927–38) living in New York City with parents
(1933) first published work (letters from summer camp)
(1933–34) returned to Fort Worth and left with grandmother
(1934–38) in New York City attending high school
(1935) first story (lost)
(1937) first published stories
(1938–42) attends Barnard College while living in New York City
(1942) graduates, first writing job for the
Jewish press
(1943–44) trip to Mexico
(1943) first love affairs, with women and some men
(1943) writes for comic book companies for seven years
(1948) at Yaddo
(1949) trip to Europe
(1950) first published novel, Strangers on a Train
(1951) travels through Europe
(1952) publishes The Price of Salt under a pseudonym
(1953) return to Fort Worth
(1955) publishes The Talented Mr. Ripley
(1956) gives up New York apartment and lives in environs of New York City
(1959) traveling in Europe
(1960) living in Pennsylvania
(1962) traveling in Europe, meets “Carolyn Besterman”
(1963) living in Sussex, England
(1967) moves to the Île-de-France
(1968) buys house in Montmachoux, in the Île-de-France
(1970) buys house at 21 rue de la Boissière, in Moncourt
(1970) visits mother in Fort Worth
(1972) death of Stanley Highsmith
(1973) visits mother in Fort Worth
(1975) mother burns house, is institutionalized
(1978) at Berlin Film Festival
(1978) last love affair
(1980) French tax raid on Moncourt house
(1980) buys house in Aurigeno, Switzerland
(1981) partial move to Aurigeno while residing in Moncourt
(1983) drove car into train
(1986) operation for lung tumor
(1986) sells Moncourt house
(1987) buys land in Tegna and builds Casa Highsmith designed by Tobias Amman
(1988) moves to Tegna
(1990) Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
(1992) publicity tour of U.S.
(1993) diagnosed as anemic and stops drinking briefly
(1995) changes will, leaving most to Yaddo
(1995) dies in hospital at Locarno
(1995) memorial service in Tegna
chronology of
Fort Worth years
self-exile in Europe
Highsmith, Patricia, literary career
American publishers
American publishers, none after 1985
amorality of works
awards
books not selling in the U.S.
books should not be in prison libraries
critics’ reviews
deadpan style
dedications
European publishers
French publishers
German-language publishers
influences on
literary executors
not pleased to make revisions
an ordinary day of writing
pages of writing per day
papers, in the Swiss Literary Archives, Bern
plotting of PH novels and stories
productiveness of
props for, from whatever was at hand
prose style, flat in later books
pseudonyms used
publishers
slow beginnings of books
typewriting of
unconventionality of
unused titles
unusualness of writings
unwritten stories
See also cahiers; notebooks; poems by PH
Highsmith, Patricia, quoted
on writers
Highsmith, Stanley
(1924) marries Mary Coates
(1933) Mary Coates’s promise to divorce
(1972) dies, and PH asks for autopsy report
career
death of
marriage problems
PH’s hatred toward
Highsmith, Stanley and Mary (as PH’s parents)
Highsmith Country
Highsmith family
Hildesheimer, Wolfgang
Hill, Ellen Blumenthal
character based on
love affair with
suicide attempts
Hill, Mr. (husband of Ellen Hill)
Hill Country Arts Foundation
Himes, Chester
Hinduism
Hitchcock, Alfred
Hitchcock, Patricia
Hitler, Adolf
Mein Kampf
Hoffman, Patrice
Hofmannsthal, Raimund von
Holding, Elizabeth Sanxay
Holliday, Judy (Judith Tuvim)
Holocaust
Hölstein, Switzerland
Home and Food magazine
homoerotic fantasy (theme)
homosexual love story, with a happy ending
homosexuals, male, novelists
honesty, PH on
Hook, Sidney
Hopper, Dennis
Hopper, Edward
Horney, Karen
Hortense (snail)
Hotel Earle, New York City
Houdini, Harry
Howard, Brian
Howard, Lewis
Howard Ingham (character)
Howarth, Tanja
Huber, Peter
Hughes, Dorothy B.
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, Richard E.
Human Anatomy, The (book used by PH’s artist parents)
Human Torch, The (comic book)
Hutton, Barbara
Hyman, Stanley Edgar
“I Despise Your Life” (PH story)
Île-de-France
Immeuble Itesa, Tangier
Impossible Interviews (radio show)
incest (theme)
“Incomplete Old Stories” folder of PH
Indianapolis, Ind.
Infatuation of the Blue Sailors (film)
Ingendaay, Paul
Inhuman Ones, The (unused title)
“Innocent Witness” (TV script)
International Herald Tribune
International Refugee Organisation (IRO)
Intern
ational Women’s Movement
interviews with PH
forged diary entries about
fraudulent
lies told
PH complaints about
“In the Plaza” (PH story)
Intifada
invitations from PH, best honored in the breach
Isaacs, Leo
Isaacson, Bobby
Ischia
Isherwood, Christopher, Christopher and His
Kind
Israel
PH’s letters criticizing
Israeli-Arab Six-Day War
Istanbul
Italians (in America)
Italy, PH first trip to
Jack and Natalia Sutherland (characters)
Jackson, Derek
Jackson, Michael
Thriller
Jackson, Shirley
Jacqui (Parisian lover)
character based on
Jaffe, Marc
Jaffee, Al
Jakob’s Bierstube-Restaurant, Zurich
Jalapa
James, Henry
The Ambassadors, xiii
The Golden Bowl
James, Jesse
James, M. R.
James, William
James I of Scotland (PH’s ancestor)
Jamison, Kay Redfield
Jane Street, Greenwich Village, New York City
Janssens, Abe
“Japanese Wife Joke, The,”
Jap Buster Johnson (comic book)
Jeanne T. (lover)
Jean P. (lover)
Jebb, Julian
Jesus Christ
many references to, in PH’s diaries and notebooks
Jewish Family Year Book, The
Jewish press
PH writing for
Jews
in America
in the comic book industry
Eastern European
PH blamed for her tax problem
PH railing against
PH’s dentists
PH’s hatred of, and many good friends among
PH’s relations with
refugees from Europe
women lovers of PH
young men dated by PH
Jo (Barnard classmate)
Joan S. (lover)
Johnson, Buffie
Johnson, Margot
jokes, PH’s
dirty, telling of
throwing a dead rat in visitors’ window
Jones, Miss (from Chicago)
Joselin, Jean-François
journalists, PH’s view of
Joyce, James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Joyce, Stanislaus
Jüdell, Hans Felix
Judson Boot Company
Julia Richman High School, New York City
Jumble Shop, New York City
Jung, Carl
Kafka, Franz
Kahn, Joan
Kandel (Hyman), Helen
Kane, Bob
Kane, Gil
Kanin, Garson, Born Yesterday
Katmandou bar, Paris
Katzenjammer Kids (comic strip)
Kauffman, Stanley
Kaufman, George S.
Kay G.
Kazin, Alfred
On Native Ground
Kazin, Pearl
Keats, John
Keel, Anna
Keel, Daniel
PH’s literary executor
Kent, Arthur Atwater
Kent, Jonathan
Keogh, Theodora Roosevelt
Meg
Keogh, Tom
Kerouac, Jack
Ker-Seymer, Barbara
Keyes, Evelyn
Kid, The (film)
Kierkegaard, Søren
Kiesler, Frederick
King, Rodney
Kingsley, Kate (later Skattebol)
correspondence destroyed by PH, and cut out of PH’s will
daughter of (PH’s goddaughter, Winifer Skattebol)
potential literary executrix of PH
Kinsey Report
Kinstler, Everett Raymond (Ray)
Kipness, Rachel
Kirby, Jack
“Kite, The” (PH story)
Klaff, Jack
Klein, Dr. Eva
Kling, Mary
Knet, Monsieur
Knopf
Knox, John
Koestler, Arthur
suicide of
Koestler, Cynthia
Kohly, Philippe
Kokoschka, Oskar
Krafft-Ebing, Richard von
Kramer, Larry
Krazy Kat (comic strip)
Krim, Seymour
Kurds
Kurtz, Midge
La Casa Chiquita, Taxco
Lacombrade, Francis
Laffont publisher
Laforêt, Marie
La Guardia, Fiorello
Lake Como
Lamarr, Hedy
Lambert, Gavin
Lambertville, Pa.
Landshoff-Yorck, Ruth
Larry Webster (character)
Lassally, Alice Gershon. See Gershon, Alice
“Last Unmaidenly Voyage of the S.S.” (unfinished story)
Latham, Minor
Latimer, Charles
La Touche, John
Lawrence, D. H.
Lawrence, T. E.
Lazarus, Leon
Le Clercq, Tanaquil
Le Cri du hibou (film)
Ledbetter, Huddie (“Leadbelly”)
Lee, Harper
Lee, Robert E.
Lee, Stan
Le Gallienne, Eva
“Legend of the Convent of St. Fotheringay, The” (PH story)
Léger, Fernand
Legman, Gershon
Leise, leise im Wind (PH short-story collection)
Le Jeu de Dames bar, Paris
Le Meurtrier (film)
Le Monacle bar
Le Monde
Lemstrom-Sheedy, Bob
Lemstrom-Sheedy, Kaarin
Lenin
Le Nouvel Observateur
Lenox, Mass.
Leone, Sergio
Leopold, Nathan, and Robert Loeb
Lerman, Leo
lesbian bars, PH in
lesbian circles
Lesbian Herstory Archives
lesbian publishing companies
lesbian pulp fiction
Letitia (character)
letters of PH, maps, lists, and calculations in
Leverson, Ada
Levin, Meyer
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Levy, Julien
Lévy, Raoul
Lewis, Edith
Lewis, Edna
Lewis, Michael
Lewis, Peggy
eldest daughter of
L’Express magazine
L’Histoire de M. Vieux Bois (early cartoon book)
Lieutenant Diana Prince (comic book character)
life, a trap
Liggenstorfer-Fritsch, Marianne
Lincoln, Abraham
Linda (girl acquaintance)
Linea d’ombra magazine
Lippincott
listmaking of PH
loathed characters
“Little Crimes for Little Tots” (PH list)
Little Engine That Could, The
Little Tales of Misogyny (PH short-story collection)
award to
theater piece made from
Locarno
Grand Hotel
hospital in
Locarno Film Festival
Loggenberg, Bee
Loing Canal
London
PH business in
PH first time in
PH visits
Royal Free Hospital
shabbiness of
stays in
“Swinging,”
London, Jack
London Life
London Magazine
Long Island, N.Y.
Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
Loriot, Noëlle
Los Angeles, Calif.
PH visits to
Losey, Joseph
Losey, Patricia
Louis, Joe
love, PH inspired by
love affairs, PH’s
PH’s assessment of
repetition in
Lovecraft, H. P.
“Love Is a Terrible Thing” (PH story)
Lowell, Robert
Luce, Henry
Luce Publications
Lumpkin, Robert
Luzi, Alexander and Marguerite
Lyne, Mme Elizabeth
MacDowell Colony
Maclaren-Ross, Julian
MacNeice, Hedli
MacNeice, Louis