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The Talented Miss Highsmith

Page 92

by Joan Schenkar


  MacShane, Frank

  Macy, Gertrude

  Madame X (film)

  Mademoiselle magazine

  Madison Avenue, New York City

  Maerker, Christa

  Maggie (ex-lover)

  Mailer, Norman

  Maintenon, Mme de

  Malavoy, Christophe

  male anatomy, PH’s clinical interest in

  Mallon, Mary (“Typhoid Mary”)

  Mallorca

  Malraux, André

  Manhattan

  Man in the Queue (unused title)

  Man Provoked, A (unused title)

  “Man’s Best Friend” (PH story)

  Mansfield, Katherine

  manuscripts, unfinished, left at PH’s death

  Marbury, Elisabeth “Bessie”

  Marge Sherwood (character)

  Maria (Natica Waterbury’s lover)

  Maria (Rosalind Constable’s former lover)

  Marie’s Crisis, New York City

  Marlowe, Walter

  married women, PH’s falling for

  Marseille

  Marvel Comics

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Matcha, Jack

  Matta, Serge

  Matthiesen, F. O., American Renaissance

  Maud and Claud (pigeon characters)

  Maugham, Somerset

  Max und Moritz (German comic strip)

  May, Mathilda

  McBridge, Donna

  McCarthy, Mary

  McCausland, Elizabeth

  McCullers, Carson

  writings

  McCullers, Reeves

  McCullers, Rita

  McCurdy, Mary

  McFarland, Ann

  McIntosh & Otis

  Mdivani, David

  Meacham, Anne

  Meaker, Marijane

  character based on

  Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s

  Intimate Victims

  Melville, Herman

  Moby-Dick

  Pierre

  memoirs, distinguished from diaries

  Mencken, H. L.

  Menninger, Karl

  The Human Mind

  Mermaids on the Golf Course (PH short-story collection)

  Merrill, James

  Methodism

  Mexicans

  Mexico

  Mexico City

  Miami, Fla.

  Michel Publications

  “Middle-Class Housewife, The” (PH story)

  Middleton, Stanley

  “Mightiest Mornings, The” (PH story)

  “Mighty Nice Man, A” (PH story)

  Miller, Alice, The Prisoner of Childhood

  Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman

  Miller, Claude

  Millett, Kate

  Minots’ farm, New Hampshire

  Miou-Miou

  Miranda the Panda Is on the Veranda (PH children’s book)

  Mitchell, Margaret, Gone with the Wind

  Mitford, Nancy

  Don’t Tell Alfred

  Modern Baby magazine

  Moelich, Ingeborg

  daughter of

  Molière

  Monash, Paul

  Mona’s restaurant, New York City

  Moncourt, France

  PH’s routine in

  PH tries to move back to, after selling her house

  as theme

  Moncourt, France, PH’s house in, 21 rue de la Boissière

  raided by French tax authority

  sold

  money, PH’s obsession with

  Montbazon

  Monterrey

  Montmachoux, France

  “Mount-my-shoe”

  Montmachoux, France, PH’s house in

  PH buys

  shared with Elizabeth Lyne

  Montpellier

  Moraes, Henrietta

  Moreau, Jeanne

  Morgan, Anne

  Morgan, Claire (pseudonym of PH)

  Morneweg, Anne

  Morocco

  Mosel, Tad

  Moser, DéDé

  Moses

  mother-daughter relations

  “Mother-in-Law, The” (PH story)

  “Mountain Treasure” (working title)

  Mozart, W. A.

  Mrabet, Mohammed

  Mroek, Slawomir

  “Mrs. Afton, Among Thy Green Braes” (PH story)

  Munch, Edvard

  Munich

  murder, PH’s obsession with

  Murdoch, Iris

  Murphy, Gerald

  Murray, Mae

  Murray, Natalia Danesi

  Museum of Modern Art, New York City

  Myers, Alice Lee Herrick

  Myers, Fanny Lee (later Brennan)

  Myers, Johnny

  Myers, Richard

  “My First Job” (PH article)

  “My Life with Greta Garbo” (PH article)

  “My New Year’s Toast” (diary excerpt)

  “Mysterious Cemetery, The” (PH story)

  Mysterious Press

  Mystery Writers of America

  Nabokov, Vladimir

  Lolita

  “Nabuti: Warm Welcome to a UN

  Committee” (PH story)

  Nagy, Phyllis

  Naiad Press

  Naomi Barton Markham (character)

  Naples

  Narcejac

  Nathan, George Jean

  National Lampoon

  Naziism

  Nedor comics

  Negro Alley, Fort Worth, Texas

  Nemours, France

  Neue Zürcher Zeitung

  Neville, Jill

  New American Library

  New Hampshire

  New Hope, Pa.

  (1960) 113 South Sugan Road residence

  (1963) PH leaves

  New Mexico

  New Orleans

  New Orleans Times-Picayune

  New School for Social Research

  New Statesman

  Newsweek

  Newton, Colonel (of Taxco)

  Newton, Dr. (of Taxco)

  New York Book Beat (radio show)

  New York City

  drinking behavior in

  Golden Years of

  PH’s upbringing in

  PH visits to

  as plot setting

  racial divisions

  New York City residences of PH

  in Astoria. See Astoria, Queens

  One Bank Street

  353 East 56th Street

  345 East 57th Street

  East 60s

  48 Grove Street

  75 Irving Place

  35 Morton Street

  West 103rd Street

  New Yorker, The, magazine

  New York Herald Tribune

  New York Review of Books, The

  New York Times, The

  New York Times Book Review

  New York University

  Nice

  Nicholson, Johnny

  Nietzsche, Friedrich

  Nin, Anaïs

  1940s

  1950s

  1960s

  1970s

  1980s

  Nixon, Richard

  “No End in Sight” (PH story)

  nonfiction works, PH’s

  North Africa

  North Brother Island

  notebooks. See cahiers

  “Notes on Suspense” (PH essay)

  Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (PH short-story collection)

  novelists, homosexual

  novels, PH’s, chronological list of

  Oates, Joyce Carol

  Oaxaca

  Observer, The

  Observer Magazine, The

  obsessions of PH

  as key to connection of PH’s life and writing

  organizing principle of this book

  O’Connor, Flannery

  Odeon, New York City

  Odette’s, New Hope

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sp; O’Dwyer, William

  O. Henry Prize Stories

  Okoshken, Samuel

  Oksner, Bob

  Oldie magazine

  Oliver, Mary

  Olympia Portable Deluxe typewriter

  O’Neill, Eugene

  “One Is a Number You Can’t Divide” (PH story)

  On the Waterfront (film)

  Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

  Orient Express (theme)

  Orlando, Fla.

  Ormonde, Czenzi

  orphanages, PH’s idea for

  Other, The (unused title)

  Ottinger, Ulrike

  Oulman, Alain

  Owen Markman (character)

  Oz, Amos

  Paine, Thomas

  Palermo

  Palestine

  Palisades, N.Y.

  Paris

  with Caroline Besterman in

  PH first time in

  PH visits to

  PH with Mother Mary in

  play produced in

  publicity trips to

  Paris Review

  Parker, Dorothy

  Parsons, Betty

  Partisan Review

  Paths of Lightening (unused title)

  Patricia Highsmith-Plangman Residency at Yaddo

  Paveth, Mr.

  pedophilia (theme)

  PEN American Center

  Pennsylvania

  Penot, Jacques

  Penzler, Otto

  People Who Knock on the Door (PH novel)

  Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris

  map of

  “Perfect Alibi, The” (PH story)

  Perkins, Helvetia

  Perelman, S. J. and Laura

  Perot, Ross

  Perrin, Elula

  Peter (girl classmate at Barnard)

  Peters, Josef

  Peters, Judith Conklin

  Peterson

  Caserne (American army base in Munich)

  Pete’s Tavern, New York City

  Petit, Christopher

  pets, murders by

  Phi Beta Kappa

  Philby, Kim

  Philip Carter (character)

  Phillips, William

  Phimister, Eveline

  photographers, spying by

  Picard, Lil

  character based on

  Picasso, Pablo

  portrait of Gertrude Stein

  Pif (dog)

  Pines, Ned

  Pissarro, Francisco

  Plangman, Gesina

  Plangman, Herman

  Plangman, Herman II (PH’s paternal grandfather)

  Plangman, Jay Bernard (PH’s biological father)

  (1921) Mary Highsmith’s divorces, shortly before PH’s birth

  (1933) PH meets for first time at age twelve

  (1975) death of

  career

  a graphic artist

  meets Mary Coates

  Plangman, Walter (PH’s uncle)

  Plangman family

  “Please Don’t Shoot the Trees” (PH story)

  Plein Soleil (film)

  Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (PH nonfiction)

  Poe, Edgar Allan

  poems by PH

  Point Summer Theatre

  poison-pen letters (theme)

  political themes, PH’s

  Pony Stable restaurant, New York City

  Pope, Martha Clarissa

  Pope, Mary Ann

  “Pope Sixtus VI” (PH story)

  Porter, Cole

  Porter, Don

  Porter, Katherine Anne

  Portugal

  Portuguese

  Positano, Italy

  Pour Ellen bar

  Poussin, Nicolas

  Powell, Dawn, The Locusts Have No King

  Powell, Philip Lloyd

  Power of Negative Thinking, The (unused title)

  prejudices, PH’s, racial and ethnic

  Presbyterian church

  PH in choir of

  Presbyterians

  “President Buck Jones Rallies and Waves the Flag” (PH story)

  Price of Salt, The (PH novel)

  bestsellerdom

  concealed authorship of

  plot

  published

  screen treatment of

  “Primroses Are Pink” (PH story)

  Prisoner, The (later Glass Cell)

  Pritchard, David and wife (characters)

  privacy, PH’s need for

  Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (film)

  Prix Goncourt, PH attends

  Prix littéraire (American Film Festival)

  Prohibition

  Proust, Marcel

  À la recherche du temps perdu

  Proust Questionnaire

  Provincetown, Mass.

  Provincetown Landing bar

  “Prude, The” (PH story)

  Pryce-Jones, Alan

  pseudonyms, of some witnesses in this book

  psychoanalysis, PH in

  publicity, PH eager for

  Public School 122, New York City

  Publishers Weekly

  Puebla

  Purple Noon (film)

  Pursuit of Evil, The (unused title)

  Pyroman (comic book)

  Quality Comics

  Qualunque, H. M. (pseudonym)

  Queen magazine

  Queen Mary (liner)

  Queens, New York City

  Queensborough Public Library, Astoria

  “Quest for Blank Claveringi, The” (PH story)

  “Quiet Night” (PH story)

  Rafferty, Terrence

  Rahv, Philip

  Rainer, Luise

  Ralph Linderman (character)

  Rand, Ayn, The Fountainhead

  Ravel, Maurice

  Raven Award

  Ray Garrett (character)

  Reagan, Ronald

  Real Life Comics (comic book)

  Reed, Lou

  Reed, Virginia

  Reichardt, Wilfried

  Reik, Theodore

  The Unknown Murderer

  Renata Hagnauer (character)

  Rendell, Ruth

  repetition, in PH plots

  reviews and articles, PH’s

  Revuers, the

  Rice, Donald

  Rice, Pierce

  Richardson, Maurice

  Richman, Julia

  Rickenbacker, Eddie

  Riefenstahl, Leni

  Rikers Island

  Rikki Markwalder (character)

  Rimbaud, Arthur

  Ripley, Dr.

  Ripley, Robert, Believe It or Not cartoon

  Ripley, Tom (character). See Tom Ripley

  Ripley and the Money Boy (unused title)

  Ripley books

  Ripley’s Game (PH novel)

  film made from

  Ripley’s Luck (unused title)

  Ripley Under Ground (PH novel)

  film made from

  Ripley Under Water (PH novel)

  Ritz Hotel, Paris

  Rizzoli’s bookstore, SoHo, New York City

  R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

  Robb, Graham

  Robbins, Jerome

  Robert Forester’s wife (character)

  Robert Laffont publisher

  Robertson, Janice

  Robillot, Henri

  Robinson, Jerry

  Robinson, Jill

  Roche, Ed

  Roche, Ned

  Roditi, Edouard

  Roett, Barbara

  quoted

  Rodgers and Hart, Pal Joey

  Rogersville, Tenn.

  Rohner (Semel), Rita

  Rolle, Switzerland

  Roman, Ruth

  Roman policier award

  “Romantic, The” (PH story)

  Rome

  Romeo Salta’s bar

  Romy Haag bar

  Ron (Negro waiter)

  Ronet, Maurice

  Ronin, Mary

  Roosev
elt, Eleanor, My Day (column)

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

  Rorem, Ned

  Rosen, Sam

  Rosenthal, Jean

  Rosenthal, Renée

  Ross, Barney

  Rossot, François

  Roth, Lynn

  character based on

  Roubicek, Dorothy

  Rowohlt (publisher)

  Ruby (PH’s cousin)

  Ruedi, Peter

  Rukeyser, Muriel

  Ruskin, John

  Sesame and Lilies

  Ryan, Desmond

  Ryan, Juliette

  Ryan, Mary

  Rydal’s Folly (unused title)

  Saboteurs, The (PH play)

  sadomasochism (S&M)

  PH’s fascination with

  Sager, Bruno

  sailors, PH’s liking for

  St. Mark’s Methodist Church, Fort Worth

  St. Martin’s Press

  St. Moritz, Switzerland

  St. Regis Hotel, New York City

  Saki, “Sredni Vashtar”

  Sallich, Edgar S. (pseudonym for PH)

  Salzburg

  “Sam” (France Burke’s lover)

  Samois-sur-Seine

  house in

  San Antonio, Texas

  Sanft, Myron

  Sanger, Margaret

  Sangor, Ben

  Sangor-Pines comics shop

  sanity, a preoccupation of PH

  San Sabba Displaced Persons camp

  San Sebastian, Spain

  Santa Fe, N.M.

  Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

  Sarraute, Nathalie

  Saturday Evening Post

  Saturday Review

  Savigneau, Josyane

  Sayre, Zelda (later Fitzgerald)

  Scarlett O’Hara (character)

  Schartle, Patricia (later Myrer)

  Schiff, Jack

  Schleissheim Displaced Persons Camp

  Schorer, Mark

  Schroeder, Richard

  Scowden, Marylin

  Scribner’s bookstore, New York City

  Second World War. See World War II

  Secret Identities (comic book characters)

  secrets

  Seine-et-Marne

  self-exposure, in notebooks and diaries

  self-help

  manuals

  Senn, Kathleen Wiggins (Mrs. E. R.)

  Sergeant Bill King (comic book)

  Shakespeare, William

 

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