The Talented Miss Highsmith (102 page)

32.
Cahier 3, 1/6/41.

33.
Cahier 24, 24/5/57.

34.
CWA KKS.

35.
Cahier 5, 9/16/41.

36.
Cahier 6, 12/17/41.

37.
PH,
The Price of Salt,
p. 221.

38.
Cahier 6, 12/17/41.

39.
Ibid.

40.
Ibid.

41.
Cahier 12, 11/12/44.

42.
“Thrillers and Crime Fiction,” interview with PH, 3 Dec. 1972, BBCTV.

43.
Cahier, 1 Feb. 1938.

44.
Cahier 24, 2/7/56.

45.
Cahier 1, Aug. 1939.

46.
Craig Little, “Interview with PH,”
Publishers Weekly
, 2 Nov. 1992.

47.
Diary 1, 1941.

48.
Cahier 18, 8/20/49.

49.
Ibid.

50.
Cahier 9, PH transcription of high school notebooks, 1935.

51.
Cahier 18, 11/5/48.

52.
Ibid., 7/29/49.

53.
CWA Caroline Besterman, 19 Dec. 2003.

54.
Cahier 4, 9/19/40.

55.
Cahier 24, 1/5/56.

56.
Cahier 5, 9/10/41.

57.
Cahier 4, 9/15/40.

58.
Diary 3, Feb. 19, 1942.

10. Alter Ego: Part 1

1.
Jim Amash, “I Let People Do Their Job,”
Alter Ego,
Nov. 2001.

2.
Cahier 2, 5/22/40.

3.
Ibid.

4.
In her radio interview in New York in 1987 with Don Swaim for the Atlantic Monthly Press publication of
Found in the Street
, Pat referred to the advertisement she'd read as an ad for a “reporter/rewrite” job and said she thought she might be applying to a newspaper, but then saw, in the office, “posters of Black Terror on the walls.”

5.
Will Murray letter to the author, 6 Aug. 2002.

6.
Quoted in Jamie Coville, “The Comic Book Villain, Dr. Frederic Wertham,”
Integrative Arts
10, 2/11/2002.

7.
Dawn Powell,
The Locusts Have No King
(South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1999), p. 279. “He thought suddenly of an ancient Latin fragment called The Pumpkinification of Claudius. The idea amused him. You might try to get Al Capp or Caniff started on a dumb boy named Claud who has the best of intentions but always takes some wrong step that turns him into a pumpkin, he said, and then noting Miss Jones' blank expression added, ‘Never mind.'”

8.
CWA Everett Ray Kinstler, 10 July 2004.

9.
“The Fighting Yank,”
America's Best Comics
16, Jan. 1946.

10.
“One day in 1943,” Stanley Kauffmann said to me, “I went back to Cinema Comics to go out to lunch with a friend. He said, ‘Would you like to meet your replacement, Pat Highsmith?' We said hello—and that was that” (CWA Stanley Kauffmann, 9 May 2002).

11.
CWA Everett Ray Kinstler, 10 July 2004.

12.
CWA Everett Ray Kinstler, 1 July 2004.

13.
Kahn would later tell fellow editor Keith Kahla that while
Strangers on a Train
was a “good book,” its author was a “terrible person.”

14.
CWA Marc Jaffee, 18 July 2003.

15.
In 1958, Cecil Day-Lewis, under his pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, published
A Penknife in My Heart
, a Harper Novel of Suspense with a crime-switching plot similar to
Strangers on a Train
. In an author's note in the paperback edition, he disclaimed all knowledge of
Strangers on a Train
, and apologized to “Miss Highsmith for being so charmingly sympathetic to the predicament in which the long arm of coincidence put me.”

16.
Quoted in Terry Teachout,
The Skeptic
:
A life of H. L. Mencken
(New York: HarperCollins, 2002), p. 125.

17.
Patricia Schartle Myrer letter to author, 17 Feb. 2003.

18.
EQMM
, August 1960.

19.
Diary 4, 7/8/43.

20.
Pat selected Bellow as her favorite writer in an essay entitled “My Favorite Writer(s),” sent to
Konkret Sonderhefte
, Hamburg, Germany, 20 July 1987.

21.
Diary 10, Oct. 13, 1950.

22.
William Shawn letter to PH with opinion attached, 24 Sept. 1942.

23.
PH letter to Joan Kahn, 3 Feb. 1958 (CURB).

24.
Diary 3, Dec. 1, 1942.

25.
Diary 2, May 28, 1943.

26.
Ibid., Saturday, June 6, 1942.

27.
PH letter to DOC, 7 Oct. 1976.

28.
CWA Caroline Besterman, 6 Nov. 2003.

29.
PH letter to Willie Mae Stewart Coates, undated, but probably written when Pat was between eight and ten.

30.
PH, “Between Jane Austen and Philby.”

31.
Cahier 9, 11/23/42, “Sonny—(a real boy of L. Island).”

32.
PH,
Strangers on a Train
(New York: W.W. Norton, 2001), p. 12.

33.
Ibid., p. 279.

34.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, pp. 19–20.

35.
Cahier 22, 8/7/51.

36.
CWA France Burke and “Sam,” 5 Feb. 2003.

37.
Cahier 22, 1/3/52.

38.
CWA Julia Diener-Diethelm, 1 Apr. 2003.

39.
Cahier 26, 12/1/61.

40.
Cahier 5, Sept. 23, 1941.

41.
Cahier 4, Sept. 1940; this history of Ruthie and Eddy was dropped down in the middle of the cahier without date or further reference, and was marked by PH “Interesting” at a later date.

42.
PH, “Venice: The One and Only,” 6/7/1992 (manuscript).

43.
CWA Janice Robertson, 23 June 2003.

44.
PH, “Twenty Things I Like,” a list made for Diogenes Verlag, 12 March 1983.

45.
Cahier 19, 7/22/50.

46.
Cahier 17, 6/3/48.

47.
Diary 3, Dec. 13, 1942.

48.
Marijane Meaker in her memoir,
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s
(San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2003), p. 9.

49.
CWA Bert Diener, 1 Apr. 2003.

50.
CWA Caroline Besterman, 6 Nov. 2003.

51.
PH letter to MCH, 1 Nov. 1969, 10:00
P.M.

52.
PH,
The Talented Mr. Ripley,
p. 249.

53.
SH letter to PH, 3 Mar. 1970.

54.
CWA Marijane Meaker, 1 Feb. 2003.

55.
CWA Caroline Besterman, 19 Dec. 2003.

56.
Diary 2, June 17, 1942.

57.
Ibid.

58.
Sherill Tippins,
February House
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005).

59.
CWA Daniel Bell, 24 Aug. 2003.

60.
Emily M. Morison letter to PH, 8 Aug. 1945, Alfred A. Knopf Archives (HRC).

61.
“The Heroine” was also reprinted in
O. Henry Prize Stories
, 1946, and in
Today's Woman
, Mar. 1948.

62.
Cahier 11, 8/19/44.

63.
CWA Daniel Bell and Pearl Kazin, 24 Aug. 2003.

64.
CWA Daniel Bell, 18 Aug. 2003.

65.
CWA Robert Gottlieb, 6 Aug. 2003.

66.
CWA Gary Fisketjon, 10 Dec. 2002.

67.
CWA Norman Mailer, 23 June 2002.

68.
Diary 1, 1940.

69.
Diary 2, May 31, 1942.

70.
Ibid., June 4, 1942.

71.
Ibid., June 1, 1942.

72.
Ibid., June 6, 1942.

73.
Donald Swaim,
Book Beat,
interview with PH, WCBS-Radio, New York, 29 Oct. 1987. Pat said the same thing in print interviews.

74.
Cahier 20, 10/23/50.

75.
Ibid.

76.
Cahier 17, 3/8/48.

77.
Cahier 17, 2/23/48.

78.
Diary 10, Nov. 17, 1950.

79.
Ibid., Jan. 8, 1943.

80.
Document of the Jewish Antifascist Committee of the USSR, 21 June 1946, Library of Congress.

81.
Diary 2, Dec. 1, 1942.

82.
Ibid., June 26, 1942.

83.
Ibid., June 24, 1942.

84.
Ibid., July 3, 1942.

85.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 138.

86.
Diary 2, July 31, 1942.

87.
Ibid., July 7, 1942.

88.
PH, “My First Job,”
Oldie
, 26 Mar. 1993.

89.
Ibid.

90.
Ibid.

91.
DOC letter to PH, undated.

92.
Pat accused Miss Phimister, her sublettor at 353 East Fifty-sixth Street, of being “a small-time crook” and of “using my stuff”—Pat's usual reaction to anyone she put in charge of anything belonging to her. PH letter to KKS, 17 May 1951.

93.
Diary 5, 10/6/43.

94.
Diary 5, 12/8/43.

95.
CWA KKS, 14 Nov. 2006.

96.
CWA Buffie Johnson, 24 Dec. 2002.

97.
CWA Vince Fago, 28 Nov. 2001.

98.
Cahier 16, 10/24/47.

99.
Cahier 8, 9/22/42.