The Talented Miss Highsmith (51 page)

Jay Bernard Plangman. Before his mustache, his marriage, and his disappearance from the life of his only child. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Mary and Stanley Highsmith, on their honeymoon in Galveston, Texas, in 1924. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Mary and Patsy in Galveston. Pat dated this photo “1925,” but other photographs and other evidence—including Little Patsy's uncustomary dress and downcast demeanor—indicate that it was taken at the time of Mary and Stanley Highsmith's honeymoon in 1924. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Pat, dressed more or less like Jackie Coogan in The Kid. From an early age, Pat felt she was a boy in the body of a girl. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Handsome Dan Coates, Pat's “Brother Dan,” famous in Texas as a rodeo announcer for his “golden voice.” He was posthumously elected to the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Pat as a teenager, impeccably dressed for mounting an English saddle. (
Collection Annebelle Potin
)

 

Pat in her early twenties: lovely, secretive, desired by many. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Patricia Highsmith, editor of the
Barnard Quarterly
, surrounded by her staff in 1942. On Pat's left is Kate Kingsley (later Skattebol). (
Barnard College Archives, published in
The Mortarboard, 1943.)

 

Rolf Tietgens, the German photographer who wanted to marry Pat.

 

Pat at 21, photographed by her new friend Rolf Tietgens.

 

Judy Holliday. Pat and Judy were close friends at Julia Richman High School; Pat kept a copy of this photograph.

 

The witty, wealthy, well-connected painter Buffie Johnson in a characteristic pose by Edward Weston. She and Pat met when Pat was a junior at Barnard College. (
Collection Buffie Johnson
)

 

Rosalind Constable, a well-known arts journalist, the eyes and ears of the Luce magazine empire, and Pat's idol for a decade. (
Menil Collection
)