The Talented Miss Highsmith (107 page)

55.
Ibid.

56.
CWA Caroline Besterman, 6 Nov. 2003.

57.
Cahier 20, 8/13/51.

58.
Cahier 19, 12/19/49.

59.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003.

60.
Diary 11, Sept. 24, 1951.

61.
Diary 10, Aug. 22–Sept. 6, 1950.

62.
Ibid., Oct. 29, 1950.

63.
CWA Jean-Étienne Cohen-Séat, 26 June 2007.

64.
Diary 10, Oct. 29, 1950.

65.
Ibid., Oct. 21, 1950.

66.
Ibid., Nov., 1950.

67.
Ibid., Nov. 1, 1950.

68.
Ibid. 10, Nov. 8, 1950.

69.
Ibid., Nov. 11, 1950.

70.
Ibid., Dec. 1950.

71.
Ibid., Dec. 1950.

72.
Ibid., Dec. 1950.

73.
Ibid., New Year's Eve, 1950.

74.
Cahier 19, 7/1/50.

75.
Cahier 16, 9/7/47.

76.
Diary 10, Oct. 11, 1950.

77.
Time
, 13 Jan. 1941.

78.
Ibid.

79.
PH letter to KKS, 19 Apr. 1964.

80.
Cahier 16, 9/4/47.

81.
PH letter to Virginia Kent Catherwood, 6 Sept. 1947.

82.
Diary 9, Jan. 4, 1948.

83.
PH letter to KKS, 22 Mar. 1952.

84.
In her diary for 1968 Pat wrote of Ginnie Catherwood: “She is Lotte in
The Tremor of Forgery
—the woman whom my hero will always love.”

85.
“The Private Life and Times of Prince David Mdivani,” on Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen Web site,
www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com
.

18. Les Girls: Part 2

1.
Cahier 18, 6/19/49.

2.
Diary 8, June 26, 1949.

3.
Ibid., July 1, 1949.

4.
Ibid., July 27, 1950.

5.
Cahier 19, 12/12/49.

6.
Cahier 19, 2/27/50.

7.
Cahier 24, 11/17/57.

8.
CWA Caroline Besterman, 19 Dec. 2003.

9.
CWA Barbara Roett, 18 May 2003.

10.
Diary 11, Oct. 14, 1951.

11.
CWA Joan Dupont, 7 Nov. 2002.

12.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 27 Aug. 1977.

13.
CWA Marion Aboudaram, 2 Oct. 2002.

14.
PH letter to BKS, 16 Apr. 1968.

15.
Ibid., 10 Feb. 1969.

16.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 18 Feb. 1969.

17.
Ibid., 4 Nov. 1968.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Cahier 17, 2/29/48.

20.
Cahier 19, 8/11/50.

21.
Diary 10, Oct. 13, 1950.

22.
Ibid.

23.
Ibid., Oct. 15–16, 1950.

24.
Ibid., Oct. 13–14, 1950.

25.
PH,
Strangers on a Train,
p. 26.

26.
CWA Marijane Meaker, 17 Apr. 2002.

27.
Cahier 20, 9/14/51.

28.
Cahier 23, 6/13/55.

29.
Cahier 23, 11/11/54.

30.
Diary 11, Sept. 4, 1951.

31.
Diary 12, May 24, 1953.

32.
Ibid.

33.
Diary 4, Aug. 8, 1943.

34.
Rolf Tietgens letter to PH, 7 Aug. 1968.

35.
Ibid., 12 Mar. 1969.

36.
Ibid., 22 Feb. 1969.

37.
Dorothy Wheelock Edson letter to the author, 26 June 2004.

38.
Ibid., 14 June 2004.

39.
Diary 10, July 17, 1950.

40.
Diary 11, June 5, 1951.

41.
PH letter to Lil Picard, 2 June 1971 (UIL).

42.
PH letter to Ellen Blumenthal Hill, 8 July 1978 (UIL).

43.
Lil Picard letter to PH, 21 Oct. 1970.

44.
Diary 9, 5/10/47.

45.
PH letter to BKS, 12 Apr. 1972.

46.
Diary 12, insert, May 29, 1953.

47.
Diary 12, June 1, 1953.

48.
Ibid., May 23–29, 1953.

49.
Ibid., June 1953.

50.
Ibid., June 15, 1953.

51.
Ibid., May 24, 1953.

52.
Ibid., June 17, 1953.

53.
PH letter to KKS, 14 June 1952.

54.
Ibid.

55.
Cahier 22, 6/18/53.

56.
Diary 12, June 24, 1953.

57.
Willis Goldbeck, entry in Internet Movie Database,
www.IMDb.com
.

58.
Diary 12, Dec. 24, 1952.

59.
PH letter to KKS, 15 Dec. 1952.

60.
Patricia Schartle had been the first woman editor in chief in American book-publishing history (introduction by Brian Garfield to Second International Congress of Crime Writers, Mar. 15, 1978).

61.
Diary 12, June 24–28, 1953.

62.
Ibid., July 1, 1953.

63.
Ibid.

64.
Ibid.

65.
Cahier 23, 6/12/55.

66.
Ibid. “I stopped writing my diary nearly a year ago—but for the very good reason that I knew somebody was reading it (E.B.H. alas).”

67.
PH letter to Monique Buffet, 8 Apr. 1988 (Collection Monique Buffet).

68.
Diary 12, July 3, 1953.

69.
Ibid., July 4, 1953.

70.
Diary 11, Sept. 7, 1951.

71.
In the same vein, Pat was indulgent about Buffie Johnson's long-researched book
Lady of the Beasts: The Goddess and Her Sacred Animals
(1988), corresponding with Buffie at length about the work. Keeping whatever private thoughts she had on the subject to herself, Pat loyally sent a review of it to
Le Monde
in Paris.

72.
Cahier 20, 10/17/51.

73.
Diary 11, 7/19/51.

74.
PH letter to KKS, 14 June 1952.

75.
Diary 11, Sept. 2, 1951.

76.
Ibid., Mar. 3, 1952.

77.
Ibid., Aug. 23, 1951. Subsequent quotations by PH about her private life are from Diaries 11 and 12.

78.
PH, review of
Meg
,
Saturday Review
, 1 Apr. 1950.

79.
Diary 11, Apr. 23, 1951.

80.
Ibid., May 1, 1951.

81.
Ibid., May 3, 1951.

82.
Ibid., Apr. 28, 1951.

83.
Ibid., May 7, 1951.

84.
Ibid., May 9–12, 1951.

85.
Ibid., June 6–24, 1951.

86.
Ibid., June 18, 1951.

87.
PH letter to Djuna Barnes, 1 Jan. 1959 (UML).

88.
Djuna Barnes letter to PH, 6 Jan. 1959 (UML).

89.
Diary 11, Oct. 1, 1951.

90.
Ibid., July 3, 1951.

91.
Ibid., July 23–27, 1951.

92.
Ibid., July 29, 1951.

93.
Don Swaim,
Book Notes,
Oct. 1987.

94.
Diary 11, Aug. 29, 1951.

95.
Ibid., Aug. 23, 1951.

19. Les Girls: Part 3

1.
Cahier 20, 9/8/51.

2.
PH letter to KKS, 13 Aug. 1952.

3.
Diary 11, 1/11/51.

4.
CWA H. M. Qualunque, 3 Aug. 2004.

5.
Cahier 31, 4/18/71.

6.
CWA H. M. Qualunque, 3 Aug. 2004.

7.
Diary 8, 12/13/47.

8.
CWA H. M. Qualunque, 3 Aug. 2004.

9.
Ibid.

10.
CWA Peter Huber, 20 Apr. 2003.

11.
Ibid.

12.
Diary 11, Sept. 4, 1951.

13.
PH,
The Blunderer
, (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), p. 23.

14.
Diary 12, July 9, 1952. “Man's Best Friend” was published posthumously in a much later version with a different ending.

15.
Diary 11, Nov. 16, 1951.

16.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, Sept. 24–25, 1969.

17.
PH letter to BKS, 2 June 1972.

18.
CWA Bettina Berch, 10 Aug. 2003.

19.
CWA Christa Maerker, 3 Aug. 2006.

20.
Diary 11, Sept. 4, 1951.

21.
Ibid., Sept. 9, 1951.

22.
Ibid., Sept. 14, 1951.

23.
Cahier 16, 11/13/47.

24.
Diary 11, Dec. 3, 1951.

25.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
(New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1990), p. 81.