The Talented Miss Highsmith (117 page)

Oaxaca

Observer, The

Observer Magazine, The

obsessions of PH

as key to connection of PH's life and writing

organizing principle of this book

O'Connor, Flannery

Odeon, New York City

Odette's, New Hope

O'Dwyer, William

O. Henry Prize Stories

Okoshken, Samuel

Oksner, Bob

Oldie
magazine

Oliver, Mary

Olympia Portable Deluxe typewriter

O'Neill, Eugene

“One Is a Number You Can't Divide” (PH story)

On the Waterfront
(film)

Ordre des Arts et des Lettres

Orient Express (theme)

Orlando, Fla.

Ormonde, Czenzi

orphanages, PH's idea for

Other, The
(unused title)

Ottinger, Ulrike

Oulman, Alain

Owen Markman (character)

Oz, Amos

 

Paine, Thomas

Palermo

Palestine

Palisades, N.Y.

Paris

with Caroline Besterman in

PH first time in

PH visits to

PH with Mother Mary in

play produced in

publicity trips to

Paris Review

Parker, Dorothy

Parsons, Betty

Partisan Review

Paths of Lightening
(unused title)

Patricia Highsmith-Plangman Residency at Yaddo

Paveth, Mr.

pedophilia (theme)

PEN American Center

Pennsylvania

Penot, Jacques

Penzler, Otto

People Who Knock on the Door
(PH novel)

Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris

map of

“Perfect Alibi, The” (PH story)

Perkins, Helvetia

Perelman, S. J. and Laura

Perot, Ross

Perrin, Elula

Peter (girl classmate at Barnard)

Peters, Josef

Peters, Judith Conklin

Peterson

Caserne
(American army base in Munich)

Pete's Tavern, New York City

Petit, Christopher

pets, murders by

Phi Beta Kappa

Philby, Kim

Philip Carter (character)

Phillips, William

Phimister, Eveline

photographers, spying by

Picard, Lil

character based on

Picasso, Pablo

portrait of Gertrude Stein

Pif (dog)

Pines, Ned

Pissarro, Francisco

Plangman, Gesina

Plangman, Herman

Plangman, Herman II (PH's paternal grandfather)

Plangman, Jay Bernard (PH's biological father)

(1921) Mary Highsmith's divorces, shortly before PH's birth

(1933) PH meets for first time at age twelve

(1975) death of

career

a graphic artist

meets Mary Coates

Plangman, Walter (PH's uncle)

Plangman family

“Please Don't Shoot the Trees” (PH story)

Plein Soleil
(film)

Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
(PH nonfiction)

Poe, Edgar Allan

poems by PH

Point Summer Theatre

poison-pen letters (theme)

political themes, PH's

Pony Stable restaurant, New York City

Pope, Martha Clarissa

Pope, Mary Ann

“Pope Sixtus VI” (PH story)

Porter, Cole

Porter, Don

Porter, Katherine Anne

Portugal

Portuguese

Positano, Italy

Pour Ellen bar

Poussin, Nicolas

Powell, Dawn,
The Locusts Have No King

Powell, Philip Lloyd

Power of Negative Thinking, The
(unused title)

prejudices, PH's, racial and ethnic

Presbyterian church

PH in choir of

Presbyterians

“President Buck Jones Rallies and Waves the Flag” (PH story)

Price of Salt, The
(PH novel)

bestsellerdom

concealed authorship of

plot

published

screen treatment of

“Primroses Are Pink” (PH story)

Prisoner, The
(later
Glass Cell
)

Pritchard, David and wife (characters)

privacy, PH's need for

Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The
(film)

Prix Goncourt, PH attends

Prix littéraire (American Film Festival)

Prohibition

Proust, Marcel

À la recherche du temps perdu

Proust Questionnaire

Provincetown, Mass.

Provincetown Landing bar

“Prude, The” (PH story)

Pryce-Jones, Alan

pseudonyms, of some witnesses in this book

psychoanalysis, PH in

publicity, PH eager for

Public School 122, New York City

Publishers Weekly

Puebla

Purple Noon
(film)

Pursuit of Evil, The
(unused title)

Pyroman
(comic book)

 

Quality Comics

Qualunque, H. M. (pseudonym)

Queen
magazine

Queen Mary
(liner)

Queens, New York City

Queensborough Public Library, Astoria

“Quest for Blank Claveringi, The” (PH story)

“Quiet Night” (PH story)

 

Rafferty, Terrence

Rahv, Philip

Rainer, Luise

Ralph Linderman (character)

Rand, Ayn,
The Fountainhead

Ravel, Maurice

Raven Award

Ray Garrett (character)

Reagan, Ronald

Real Life Comics
(comic book)

Reed, Lou

Reed, Virginia

Reichardt, Wilfried

Reik, Theodore

The Unknown Murderer

Renata Hagnauer (character)

Rendell, Ruth

repetition, in PH plots

reviews and articles, PH's

Revuers, the

Rice, Donald

Rice, Pierce

Richardson, Maurice

Richman, Julia

Rickenbacker, Eddie

Riefenstahl, Leni

Rikers Island

Rikki Markwalder (character)

Rimbaud, Arthur

Ripley, Dr.

Ripley, Robert,
Believe It or Not
cartoon

Ripley, Tom (character).
See
Tom Ripley

Ripley and the Money Boy
(unused title)

Ripley books

Ripley's Game
(PH novel)

film made from

Ripley's Luck
(unused title)

Ripley Under Ground
(PH novel)

film made from

Ripley Under Water
(PH novel)

Ritz Hotel, Paris

Rizzoli's bookstore, SoHo, New York City

R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company

Robb, Graham

Robbins, Jerome

Robert Forester's wife (character)

Robert Laffont publisher

Robertson, Janice

Robillot, Henri

Robinson, Jerry

Robinson, Jill

Roche, Ed

Roche, Ned

Roditi, Edouard

Roett, Barbara

quoted

Rodgers and Hart,
Pal Joey

Rogersville, Tenn.

Rohner (Semel), Rita

Rolle, Switzerland

Roman, Ruth

Roman policier
award

“Romantic, The” (PH story)

Rome

Romeo Salta's bar

Romy Haag bar

Ron (Negro waiter)

Ronet, Maurice

Ronin, Mary

Roosevelt, Eleanor,
My Day
(column)

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano

Rorem, Ned

Rosen, Sam

Rosenthal, Jean

Rosenthal, Renée

Ross, Barney

Rossot, François

Roth, Lynn

character based on

Roubicek, Dorothy

Rowohlt (publisher)

Ruby (PH's cousin)

Ruedi, Peter

Rukeyser, Muriel

Ruskin, John

Sesame and Lilies

Ryan, Desmond

Ryan, Juliette

Ryan, Mary

Rydal's Folly
(unused title)

 

Saboteurs, The
(PH play)

sadomasochism (S&M)

PH's fascination with

Sager, Bruno

sailors, PH's liking for

St. Mark's Methodist Church, Fort Worth

St. Martin's Press

St. Moritz, Switzerland

St. Regis Hotel, New York City

Saki, “Sredni Vashtar”

Sallich, Edgar S. (pseudonym for PH)

Salzburg

“Sam” (France Burke's lover)

Samois-sur-Seine

house in

San Antonio, Texas

Sanft, Myron

Sanger, Margaret

Sangor, Ben

Sangor-Pines comics shop

sanity, a preoccupation of PH

San Sabba Displaced Persons camp

San Sebastian, Spain

Santa Fe, N.M.

Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Sarraute, Nathalie

Saturday Evening Post

Saturday Review

Savigneau, Josyane

Sayre, Zelda (later Fitzgerald)

Scarlett O'Hara (character)

Schartle, Patricia (later Myrer)

Schiff, Jack

Schleissheim Displaced Persons Camp

Schorer, Mark

Schroeder, Richard

Scowden, Marylin

Scribner's bookstore, New York City

Second World War.
See
World War II

Secret Identities (comic book characters)

secrets

Seine-et-Marne

self-exposure, in notebooks and diaries

self-help

manuals

Senn, Kathleen Wiggins (Mrs. E. R.)

Sergeant Bill King
(comic book)

Shakespeare, William

Shamir, Yitzhak

“shattering,” PH's frequent use of word

Shawn, William

“Sheila” (photographer, lover)

Shepard, Sam

Sherlock Holmes stories

shoes, PH's fascination with

short-story collections, PH's, chronological list of

Show Spot restaurant, New York City

Shuster, Joe

Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia

Siegel, Jerry

Signoret, Simone

Silver Dagger Award

“Silver Horn of Plenty, The” (PH story)

Simon, Joe

Simone, Dr. Barbara

Simon & Schuster

Simpson, Babs

Simpson, Sloan

Simpson's-in-the-Strand, London

Sims, Agnes

Singin' in the Rain
(musical)

Sinnott, Joe

Sitwell, Edith

Sixth Ward grade school, Fort Worth, Texas

Skattebol, Kate.
See
Kingsley, Kate

Skattebol, Lars

Skelton, Barbara

Sklarew, Myra

sleep, having enough

Sleepless Night, The
.
See Traffic of Jacob's Ladder, The

Slowly, Slowly in the Wind
(PH short-story collection)

Small g: A Summer Idyll
(PH novel)

published posthumously

Smart Set
magazine

Smith, Ann

Smith, Liz

Smith, Margerita

Smith, Oliver

smoking, PH's

snails

copulating

smuggled into France

stories about

“Snails, The” (PH story)

“Snail-Watcher, The” (PH story)

Snail-Watcher and Other Stories, The
(PH short-story collection)

Snake Pit, The
(film)

Snedens Landing, Palisades, N.Y.

Soho, London

“Some Christmases—Mine or Anybody's” (PH article)

Sommer, Frieda

Sontag, Susan

South Bank Show, The
(TV program)

Spain

Spanish Civil War

Spark, Muriel

Sparkill, N.Y.

Spectator

Sperber, Manès

Spewack, Samuel and Bella

Spider Highsmith (cat)

Spider-Man (comic book character)

Spillane, Mickey

I, the Jury

Spirit, The
(graphic novel)

Spivy's bar

Sprague, Chloe

Spratling, William

Sprüngli sweet shop, Zurich

Spy Smasher
(comic book)

Stalin

Standard Publications

Stanislavsky, Konstantin

Stauffer, Teddy

Stein, Gertrude

Stéphane, Nicole

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Stewart, Gen. A. P. (PH relation)

Stewart, Charles (PH ancestor)

Stewart, Leonidas

Stewart, Martha (PH's great-aunt)

Stewart, Ninion (PH's ancestor)

Stewart, Oscar Wilkinson (PH's paternal grandfather)

Stewart, Samuel Smith

Stewart, William (PH's great-grandfather)

Stewart family

“Still Point of the Turning World, The” (PH story)

Stockbridge, Mass.

Stockholm

Storchen Hotel, Zurich

Stories
(unfinished play)

Story-Teller, The
(
A Suspension of Mercy
) (PH novel)

Straightforward Lie, The
(PH satire)

Strangers on a Train
(Hitchcock film)

Strangers on a Train
(PH novel)

Auden reads, not entirely favorably