The Talented Miss Highsmith (72 page)

Pat in France with Sylvia David and her husband, the political cartoonist Jean David (Jeannot). Pat's desire to be an
“ami de maison”
wasn't always an innocent one. (
Collection Annebelle Potin
)

 

Pat and her favorite cat, Spider Highsmith, the dedicatee of
The Glass Cell
. Muriel Spark, who adopted Spider, remarked: “He brought a bit of Patricia Highsmith with him.” (
Collection Ogden Kruger
)

 

Ellen Blumenthal Hill in the bed Pat has just left to take this photograph. Ellen's four-year affair and thirty-odd-year friendship with Pat added new terrors to the word relationship—and brought new inspiration to Pat's work. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Dame Sybil Thorndike and Heather Chasen in
Call Me Jacky
, Enid Bagnold's play about a
homicidal alcoholic lesbian. Chasen, who played the title role, based her costume and some of her
characterization on her friend Patricia Highsmith. (
Collection Heather Chasen
)

 

Pat and Arthur Koestler in Alpnach on her visit to the Koestlers in the summer of 1969.
Pat and Koestler had an interesting history. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Pat, wearing her trademark Levi 501 jeans, in Montmachoux in 1973 with George and Agnes
Baryliski, the gleaners to whom she dedicated
Ripley Under Ground
. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Pat at her rolltop desk in Moncourt with some creative aids: a cigarette, an ashtray, and her coffee-colored 1956 Olympia Deluxe typewriter.

 

Novelist Marion Aboudaram, Pat's lover in France from 1975 to 1978. Pat made suggestions for Marion's translation of Rita May Brown's
Rubyfruit Jungle
, then left her for Tabea Blumenschein. (
Collection Marion Aboudaram
)

 

Tabea Blumenschein disguised as a girl. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Tabea Blumenschein disguised as a boy. (
Swiss Literary Archives
)

 

Pat and Monique Buffet in Pat's garden in Moncourt. Monique “saved” Pat's novel
The Boy Who Followed Ripley
; it is dedicated to her. (
Collection Monique Buffet
)

 

Pat, Monique Buffet, and Frédérique Chambrelent at a fashion event at Maxim's organized by Chambrelent. At Pat's request, Monique is pretending to be her agent. (
Collection Monique Buffet
)