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Jüdell, Hans Felix

Judson Boot Company

Julia Richman High School, New York City

Jumble Shop, New York City

Jung, Carl

 

Kafka, Franz

Kahn, Joan

Kandel (Hyman), Helen

Kane, Bob

Kane, Gil

Kanin, Garson,
Born Yesterday

Katmandou bar, Paris

Katzenjammer Kids
(comic strip)

Kauffman, Stanley

Kaufman, George S.

Kay G.

Kazin, Alfred

On Native Ground

Kazin, Pearl

Keats, John

Keel, Anna

Keel, Daniel

PH's literary executor

Kent, Arthur Atwater

Kent, Jonathan

Keogh, Theodora Roosevelt

Meg

Keogh, Tom

Kerouac, Jack

Ker-Seymer, Barbara

Keyes, Evelyn

Kid, The
(film)

Kierkegaard, Søren

Kiesler, Frederick

King, Rodney

Kingsley, Kate (later Skattebol)

correspondence destroyed by PH, and cut out of PH's will

daughter of (PH's goddaughter, Winifer Skattebol)

potential literary executrix of PH

Kinsey Report

Kinstler, Everett Raymond (Ray)

Kipness, Rachel

Kirby, Jack

“Kite, The” (PH story)

Klaff, Jack

Klein, Dr. Eva

Kling, Mary

Knet, Monsieur

Knopf

Knox, John

Koestler, Arthur

suicide of

Koestler, Cynthia

Kohly, Philippe

Kokoschka, Oskar

Krafft-Ebing, Richard von

Kramer, Larry

Krazy Kat
(comic strip)

Krim, Seymour

Kurds

Kurtz, Midge

 

La Casa Chiquita, Taxco

Lacombrade, Francis

Laffont publisher

Laforêt, Marie

La Guardia, Fiorello

Lake Como

Lamarr, Hedy

Lambert, Gavin

Lambertville, Pa.

Landshoff-Yorck, Ruth

Larry Webster (character)

Lassally, Alice Gershon.
See
Gershon, Alice

“Last Unmaidenly Voyage of the S.S.” (unfinished story)

Latham, Minor

Latimer, Charles

La Touche, John

Lawrence, D. H.

Lawrence, T. E.

Lazarus, Leon

Le Clercq, Tanaquil

Le Cri du hibou
(film)

Ledbetter, Huddie (“Leadbelly”)

Lee, Harper

Lee, Robert E.

Lee, Stan

Le Gallienne, Eva

“Legend of the Convent of St. Fotheringay, The” (PH story)

Léger, Fernand

Legman, Gershon

Leise, leise im Wind
(PH short-story collection)

Le Jeu de Dames bar, Paris

Le Meurtrier
(film)

Le Monacle bar

Le Monde

Lemstrom-Sheedy, Bob

Lemstrom-Sheedy, Kaarin

Lenin

Le Nouvel Observateur

Lenox, Mass.

Leone, Sergio

Leopold, Nathan, and Robert Loeb

Lerman, Leo

lesbian bars, PH in

lesbian circles

Lesbian Herstory Archives

lesbian publishing companies

lesbian pulp fiction

Letitia (character)

letters of PH, maps, lists, and calculations in

Leverson, Ada

Levin, Meyer

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Levy, Julien

Lévy, Raoul

Lewis, Edith

Lewis, Edna

Lewis, Michael

Lewis, Peggy

eldest daughter of

L'Express
magazine

L'Histoire de M. Vieux Bois
(early cartoon book)

Lieutenant Diana Prince (comic book character)

life, a trap

Liggenstorfer-Fritsch, Marianne

Lincoln, Abraham

Linda (girl acquaintance)

Linea d'ombra
magazine

Lippincott

listmaking of PH

loathed characters

“Little Crimes for Little Tots” (PH list)

Little Engine That Could, The

Little Tales of Misogyny
(PH short-story collection)

award to

theater piece made from

Locarno

Grand Hotel

hospital in

Locarno Film Festival

Loggenberg, Bee

Loing Canal

London

PH business in

PH first time in

PH visits

Royal Free Hospital

shabbiness of

stays in

“Swinging,”

London, Jack

London Life

London Magazine

Long Island, N.Y.

Longworth, Alice Roosevelt

Loriot, Noëlle

Los Angeles, Calif.

PH visits to

Losey, Joseph

Losey, Patricia

Louis, Joe

love, PH inspired by

love affairs, PH's

PH's assessment of

repetition in

Lovecraft, H. P.

“Love Is a Terrible Thing” (PH story)

Lowell, Robert

Luce, Henry

Luce Publications

Lumpkin, Robert

Luzi, Alexander and Marguerite

Lyne, Mme Elizabeth

 

MacDowell Colony

Maclaren-Ross, Julian

MacNeice, Hedli

MacNeice, Louis

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

Mro
ek, 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

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