The Talented Miss Highsmith (109 page)

28.
Ibid., 1/3/58 and 1/16/58.

29.
Ibid., 1/3/58.

30.
Cahier 23, 9/28/55.

31.
Cahier 24, 5/19/57.

32.
Ibid.

23. Les Girls: Part 7

1.
Pat's and Marijane's agent, Patricia Schartle Myrer, described Marijane as “star-struck” by Pat in a letter to the author, 17 Feb. 2003.

2.
Marijane Meaker interviewed by Terry Gross,
Fresh Air,
NPR, 12 July 2003.

3.
CWA Marijane Meaker, 1 Feb. 2003.

4.
Diary 11, July 27, 1951.

5.
Liz Smith,
Natural Blonde
(New York: Hyperion, 2000), p. 258.

6.
CWA Megan Terry, 29 Oct. 2006.

7.
CWA Jean Rosenthal, 30 Oct. 2002.

8.
CWA Megan Terry, 29 Oct. 2006.

9.
Marijane Meaker,
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s
, p. 1.

10.
Ibid., p. 2.

11.
Cahier 25, 9/28/59.

12.
CWA Marijane Meaker, 1 Feb. 2003.

13.
Marion Meade,
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
(New York: Penguin, 1989), p. 266.

14.
CWA Marijane Meaker, 1 Feb. 2003.

15.
Ibid., 1 Feb. and 12 Nov. 2003.

16.
Cahier 3, 7/7/40.

17.
Ibid., 1/10/40.

18.
MCH letter to Marijane Meaker, “Friday
AM
11th” (Collection Marijane Meaker).

19.
Ibid.

20.
CWA Marijane Meaker, 1 Feb. 2003.

21.
Cahier 26, 12/1/61.

22.
Ibid., 3/23/61. “She denied having asked me, when I was replacing a hammer in the rack last night, ‘Do you want to hit me, Pat?' I said of course not and hung up the hammer.”

23.
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, pp. 11–12.

24.
Joan Kahn letter to Patricia Schartle, 21 Feb. 1961 (CURB).

25.
Cahier 26, 3/3/61.

26.
Ibid., 3/14/61.

27.
Ibid., 3/22/61.

28.
Ibid.

29.
Meaker,
Highsmith
; a theme of the book.

30.
Cahier 26, 3/22/61.

31.
Meaker,
Highsmith
, pp. 20, 166. Meaker is quoting Polly Cameron on Pat's drinking.

32.
Cahier 26, 3/22/61.

33.
CWA Marijane Meaker, 1 Feb. 2003.

34.
Cahier 27, 12/28/64.
It was no doubt a tragedy that I saw
“Forbidden” written like a word in red paint,
“Stop,” and could read it, when I was six,
A tragedy that at sixteen and eighteen,
Love still a new gift to me, ungiven because untaken,
A tragedy that I would have given this best that I had,
Better than precious stones I read about in books.
It's perhaps a tragedy I had to swallow my precious stone
At sixteen, watching careless boys and girls
Walking hand in hand down public streets,
As indifferent to what people thought of them
As they were to their own sensations, walking the next day with someone else.
MY envy turned to hatred
And the hatred to contempt….

35.
Meaker,
Highsmith
, p. 179.

36.
Diary 10, Nov. 24, 1950.

37.
CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2002.

24. Les Girls: Part 8

1.
CWA Phillip Lloyd Powell, 13 Feb. 2003.

2.
Ibid.

3.
CWA Nora Ellen Lewis, 14 Feb. 2006.

4.
Diary 13, Sunday, 16 Sept. 1962.

5.
CWA Marion Aboudaram, 23 Sept. 2002.

6.
PH letter to KKS, 30 Mar. 1988.

7.
PH letter to Lil Picard, 23 Jan. 1968 (UIL).

8.
Diary 15, Jan. 23., 1968.

9.
CWA Linda Ladurner, 10 May 2003.

10.
PH letter to Lil Picard, 23 Jan. 1968 (UIL).

11.
PH letter to KKS, 11 Feb. 1976.

12.
CWA Frédérique Chambrelent, 19 May 2003.

13.
Ibid.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Ibid.

16.
Anthony Cronin, one of Samuel Beckett's biographers, writes of a boisterous, bibulous Desmond Ryan, on a night out with Samuel Beckett and Ralph Cusack in 1947, hurling ecclesiastical chair after ecclesiastical chair down the hundreds of steps which descend from the front of Paris's second-best-known church, Sacre Coeur.

17.
CWA Janine Hérisson, 29 Oct. 2002.

18.
Henri Robillot letter to the author, 29/10/02.

19.
PH letter to MCH, 3 May 1968.

20.
CWA Nora Ellen Lewis, 14 Feb. 2006.

21.
CWA Larry Kramer, 14 June 2006.

22.
Larry Kramer letter to PH, 10 Feb. 1971.

23.
CWA Larry Kramer, 14 Feb. 2006.

24.
Diary 15, Aug. 11, 1963.

25.
Ibid., Jan. 31, 1964.

26.
PH letter to Lil Picard, 11 June 1969 (UIL).

27.
Ibid., 8 July 1969 (UIL).

28.
Ibid.

29.
Cahier 26, 3/4/61.

30.
Ibid., 9/4/61.

31.
Ibid., 6/16/61.

32.
PH,
The Cry of the Owl
(New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989), p. 27.

33.
PH letter to KKS, 6 Feb. 1963.

34.
Ibid.

35.
Ibid., 3 May 1963.

36.
Ibid., 4 June, 1964.

25. Les Girls: Part 9

1.
Cahier 28, 12/15/64.

2.
Ibid., 3/3/65.

3.
Ibid., 4/23/65.

4.
Ibid., 7/12/65.

5.
Ibid., 8/5/65.

6.
Ibid., 1/15/67.

7.
Ibid., 4/12/65.

8.
Ibid., 4/12/67.

9.
Most of the character names in
Those Who Walk Away
, like most character names in other Highsmith fictions, are unconvincing as names: they sound like bad aliases. Whether they're the product of an imagination which spent quite a bit of time inventing for the comics, where similarly incredible proper names abound, or whether they are merely the result of Pat's tin ear for intonation, is impossible to determine. If we contrast, for example, the name Odile Masarati, the woman in the Highsmith short story “The Cruellest Month” who is proud to be physically scarred in her pursuit of a Graham Greene–like author, with any of the names on Vladimir Nabokov's pitch-perfect list of Lolita's little classmates in the novel
Lolita
, the difference between a fictional name that sounds real and one that sounds false becomes obvious. Pat did pluck one surname for
Those Who Walk Away
from her grandmother Willie Mae's family history: she made the unseen Mallorcan landlord of Ray and Peggy Garret a Deckkard.

10.
PH,
Strangers on a Train,
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), p. 270.

11.
CWA Janice Robertson, 22 June 2003.

12.
Cahier 28, 1/15/67.

13.
Cahier 26, 2/3/62.

14.
Cahier 28, 7/11/65.

15.
Ibid., 2/7/66.

16.
Ibid., 3/30/66.

17.
Ibid., 7/13/66.

18.
Ibid., 7/7/66.

19.
Ibid., 7/19/66.

20.
Ibid., 7/19/66.

21.
Ibid., 7/21/66.

22.
PH,
The Tremor of Forgery
, p. 87.

23.
Cahier 28, 1/27/67.

24.
Ibid., 1/16/67.

25.
Ibid.

26.
Ibid.

27.
Ibid., 1/2/67.

28.
Cahier 29, 1/27/67.

29.
Cahier 28, 3/28/67.

26. Les Girls: Part 10

1.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 14 Nov. 1969.

2.
Ibid.

3.
CWA Barbara Roett, 18 May 2003.

4.
Diary 10, Jan. 27, 1950.

5.
Cahier 34, 4/9/78.

6.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 24 Apr. 1978.

7.
Cahier 35, 8/24/80.

8.
CWA Phyllis Nagy, 26 June 2002.

9.
Sally Vincent, “Wave from Afar,”
Observer
, 27 Apr. 1980.

10.
CWA Francis Wyndham, 20 Dec. 2003.

11.
Francis Wyndham letter to PH, 4 Nov. 1984.

12.
CWA Linda Ladurner, 10 May 2003.

13.
CWA Tabea Blumenschein, 15 June 2003.

14.
Diary 9, 27 Jan. 1949.

15.
BKS letter to Barbara Roett, 8 June 1978 (TGA).

16.
Meaker,
Highsmith
, pp. 189, 190.

17.
Ibid., pp 183–98.

18.
PH, unpublished “Impossible Interview” with Yitzhak Shamir, 1990.

19.
CWA Christa Maerker, 21 July 2004.

20.
CWA Phyllis Nagy, 26 June 2002.

21.
Cahier 24, 9/30/57.

22.
Cahier 25, 11/19/59.

27. Les Girls: Part 11

1.
Cahier 36, 4/3/84.