The Talented Miss Highsmith (108 page)

26.
Diary 11, Sept. 30, 1951.

27.
Gerald Peary, interview in Toronto with PH,
www.geraldpeary.com
., 1988.

28.
Diary 11, Oct. 22, 1951.

29.
Ibid.

30.
Ibid., Oct. 28, 1951.

31.
Ibid., Oct. 25, 1951.

32.
Ibid., Nov. 5, 1951.

33.
Ibid., Dec. 3, 1951.

34.
Ibid., Jan. 11, 1952.

35.
PH letter to KKS, 5 Jan. 1967.

36.
W. H. Auden letter to PH, dated “Mar 23” and pasted in her Scrapbook no. 1, 1950–61.

37.
PH, “Scene of the Crime,”
Granta
29 (Winter 1989). Also published in the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
, 24 Aug. 1991.

38.
Cahier 21, Dec. 2, 1952.

39.
Andrew Wilson,
Beautiful Shadow
(London: Bloomsbury, 2003), p. 182.

40.
Diary 12, Dec. 5, 1952.

41.
Ibid., Nov. 27, 1952.

42.
Ibid., Dec. 1, 1952.

43.
Ibid., Dec. 5, 1952.

44.
Ibid., Dec. 17, 1952.

45.
Cahier 21, 12/2/52.

46.
Ibid.

47.
Diary 12, Jan. 19, 1953.

48.
Ibid., Dec. 25, 1952.

49.
Ibid., Jan. 23, 1953.

50.
Cahier 22,
Keime
, entries from 1952–53.

51.
Diary 12, Feb. 12, 1953.

52.
Cahier 22, 2/15/53.

53.
Diary 12, Jan. 27, 1953

54.
Ibid., Feb., various dates, 1953.

55.
Cahier 21, 10/28/52.

56.
Cahier 22, 2/14/53.

57.
Diary 12, July 15–16, 1953.

20. Les Girls: Part 4

1.
Diary 12, July and Aug., various dates, 1953.

2.
Ibid., Aug. 6–7, 1953.

3.
Ibid., June 8, 1953.

4.
Ibid., Aug. 20, 1953.

5.
PH,
The Blunderer
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), p. 189.

6.
Ibid., p. 16.

7.
Ibid., pp. 99, 93–94.

8.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 17 Aug. 1965.

9.
PH,
The Blunderer,
p. 97.

10.
Ibid., p. 167.

11.
Ibid., p. 97.

12.
Ibid., p. 188.

13.
Ibid., p. 148.

14.
Paul Ingendaay, Afterword to
Nothing That Meets the Eye
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2002), p. 446.

15.
Cahier 23, 8/21/55.

16.
Diary 12, Aug. 26 and 31, 1953.

17.
Cahier 22, 10/27/53.

18.
PH letters to KKS, 27 Oct. and 24 Dec. 1953.

19.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003.

20.
CWA Annebelle Potin, 24 Mar. 2007.

21.
Diary 12, Mar. 16, 1954.

22.
Cahier 23, 4/14/54.

23.
PH letter to Lil Picard, 20 Dec. 1967 (UIL).

24.
Cahier 23, 4/22/54.

25.
Ibid.

26.
Jack Kerouac,
On the Road
(New York: Viking Press, 1957).

21. Les Girls: Part 5

1.
PH letter to KKS, 23 Mar. 1953.

2.
PH,
The Talented Mr. Ripley
, p. 174.

3.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
archives for 1931 (FWPL).

4.
Cahier 23, 4/24/54.

5.
“Man ‘Buried' as Fire Victim Seized as Murder Suspect,”
New York Herald Tribune
, 16 Apr. 1954.

6.
Cahier 6, 2/23/42.

7.
PH letter to Rosalind Constable, 15 Jan. 1968.

8.
Ibid.

9.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
(New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1990), p. 76.

10.
Ibid., p. 75.

11.
No one ever mentions Willa Cather's wonderful short story “Paul's Case” (1906) in connection with
The Talented Mr. Ripley
; it is perhaps time to do so. Pat admired Cather, lived for two years with her parents in a building on the site of Cather's old Greenwich Village residence on Bank Street, and would certainly have known “Paul's Case” as one the few overtly American examples of a doubtfully sexed protagonist. There is something of the stagestruck Paul in Ripley and in his effeminacy, compulsive lying, felonious instincts, love of fine costume, and loathing of the low condition of his family. But Paul finishes, like Anna Kerenina, under the wheels of a train, while Tom Ripley ends up in the best hotel in Athens.

12.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 140.

13.
Ibid., p. 123.

14.
Patricia Highsmith: Leben und Werk
, eds. Franz Cavigelli, Fritz Senn, and Anna von Planta (Zurich: Diogenes, 1996). Peter Handke: “Die Privaten Weltkriege der Patricia Highsmith,” pp. 169–180 (trans. Anna von Planta).

15.
CWA Judith Conklin Peters, 1 June 2002.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Ibid.

18.
Cahier 23, 6/13/54.

19.
Ibid.

20.
Ibid., 5/27/55.

21.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 74.

22.
CWA Ned Roche, 24 May 2002.

23.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 75.

24.
PH,
The Talented Mr. Ripley
, p. 131.

25.
Ibid., pp. 137–38.

26.
Diary 8, May 12, 1947.

27.
Cahier 23, 10/1/54.

28.
Cahier 23, 3/7/54.

29.
Cahier 24, 9/29/57.

30.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 50.

31.
Cahier 26, 8/19/60.

32.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 76.

33.
Lisa Maria Hogeland, Afterword to
In a Lonely Place,
by Dorothy B. Hughes (New York: Feminist Press, 2003), p. 240.

34.
Antonia Fraser, “The Unsuitable Suitor in the Lake,”
Spectator
, June 2003.

35.
Patricia Schartle Myrer letter to the author, 17 Feb. 2003.

36.
Dorothy B. Hughes letter to Joan Kahn, Dec. 1958 (CURB).

37.
Don Swaim,
Book Notes,
Oct. 1987.

38.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 75.

39.
Pat added Ripley's name to a letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer and did the same in a book dedication to Charles Latimer.

40.
Cahier 23, 5/3/54.

41.
Ibid., 11/19/54.

42.
Duhamel was the name of one of PH's French translators.

43.
PH letter to KKS, 6 May 1970.

44.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 11 May 2002.

45.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003.

46.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, pp. 23–24.

47.
Cahier 23, 12/28/54.

48.
Ibid., “New Year's Eve,” 1954.

49.
Cahier 26, 8/30/61.

50.
Cahier 23, 12/6/55.

51.
Ibid., 6/26/55.

52.
Ibid., 7/3/54.

53.
Diary 10, Jan. 6, 1951.

22. Les Girls: Part 6

1.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, pp. 20–21.

2.
Cahier 24, 2/29/56.

3.
Ibid., 1/28/56.

4.
Ibid., 1/13/56.

5.
“Books in Brief,”
The New Yorker
, 14 Jan. 1956, p. 100.

6.
“Criminals at Large,” Anthony Boucher,
New York Times Book Review
, 25 Dec. 1955.

7.
Cahier 24, 3/28/56.

8.
Ibid., 4/13/56.

9.
Ibid., 6/8/56.

10.
Ibid., 6/17/56.

11.
Ibid., 5/29/56.

12.
PH letter to KKS, 23 Sept. 1956.

13.
Ibid., 4 June 1956.

14.
Cahier 24, 7/31/56.

15.
Cahier 23, 6/4/55.

16.
Cahier 24, 10/21/56.

17.
Ibid., 11/23/56.

18.
Ibid., 11/27/56.

19.
PH letter to Joan Kahn, 14/9/59 (CURB).

20.
Cahier 24, 3/7/57.

21.
Ibid., 5/1/57.

22.
Ibid., 5/22/57.

23.
Ibid., 1/15/57.

24.
Ibid., front cover.

25.
PH letter to KKS, 24/9/53.

26.
Cahier 24, 8/27/57.

27.
Ibid., 9/30/57.