Beautiful Shadow (108 page)

15
PH, Cahier 27, SLA.

16
Interview with Vivien De Bernardi, 23 July 1999.

17
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 10–11 March 1969, SLA.

18
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, SLA.

19
Ibid.

20
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 15 March 1969, SLA.

21
Ibid.

22
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 10–11 March 1969, SLA.

23
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 31 March 1969, SLA.

24
PH, Cahier 28, 12/19/64, SLA.

25
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 15 April 1969, SLA.

26
Interview with Charles Latimer, 2 November 1998.

27
PH, Cahier 30, 5/27/69, SLA.

28
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 20 May 1969, SLA.

29
PH, Cahier 30, 12/30/69, SLA.

30
Ibid.

31
PH, Cahier 30, 6/23/69, SLA.

32
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 14 November 1969, SLA.

33
PH, Cahier 30, 11/14/69, SLA.

34
Interview with Barbara Roett.

35
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 17 December 1969, SLA.

36
Mary Highsmith, Letter to PH, 3 March 1970, SLA.

37
PH, Letter to Stanley Highsmith, 11 June 1970, SLA.

38
Mary Highsmith, Letter to PH, 3 March 1970, SLA.

39
Ibid.

40
PH, Letter to Ronald Blythe, 17 March 1970, RB.

41
PH, ‘Must We Always Write for Money’, 1974, SLA.

42
PH, Letter to Arthur Koestler, 26 April 1970, KA, MS 2386/5.

43
Ibid.

44
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 23 August 1970, SLA.

45
Ibid.

46
PH, Letter to Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 30 July 1978, SLA.

47
Stanley Highsmith, Letter to PH, 23 August 1970, SLA.

48
Ibid.

49
Ibid.

50
Ibid.

51
Ibid.

52
PH, Letter to Stanley Highsmith, 1 September 1970, SLA.

53
PH, Letter to Stanley Highsmith, 10 November 1970, SLA.

54
PH, Letter to Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 29 November 1970, SLA.

55
PH, Cahier 31, 12/20/71, SLA.

56
Mary Highsmith, Letter to PH, 6 February 1971, SLA.

57
Mary Highsmith, Letter to PH, 3 February 1971, SLA.

25 Name: Ishmael 1970–1971

1
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 3 January 1970, SLA.

2
PH, Letter to Ronald Blythe, 24 May 1970, RB.

3
Ibid.

4
PH, Cahier 31, 5/5/70, SLA.

5
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 29 July 1970, SLA.

6
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 18 August 1970, SLA.

7
PH, Letter to Ronald Blythe, 18 February 1971, RB.

8
PH, Letter to Ronald Blythe, 16 August 1970, RB.

9
Ibid.

10
PH,
A Dog’s Ransom
, Heinemann, London, 1972, p. 105.

11
Ibid., p. 110.

12
Ibid.
,
p. 32.

13
Ibid., p. 127.

14
PH, Letter to Ronald Blythe, 18 February 1971, RB.

15
PH,
A Dog’s Ransom
, p. 281.

16
Ibid., p. 115.

17
Ibid., p. 15.

18
PH, Cahier 31, 1/26/70, SLA.

19
Gore Vidal, Letter to the author, undated but received January 2000.

20
PH, ‘My Favorite writer(s)’, sent to
Konkret Sonderhefte
, Hamburg, 20 July 1987, SLA.

21
Ibid.

22
PH, ‘The Novel’, written for
New Review
, unpublished, SLA.

23
Saul Bellow,
Mr Sammler’s Planet
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1970, p. 205.

24
Bellow,
Mr Sammler’s Planet
, p. 43.

25
PH, Cahier 31, undated.

26
PH,
My Favorite writer(s).

27
PH, Letter to Janice Robertson, 14 April 1973, JR.

28
PH, ‘Tradition in American Literature’, Barnard essay, 23 April 1942, SLA. Highsmith received an A-grade for the essay, along with the comment, from Professor Thornbury, ‘Interesting, but some of the generalizations are questionable’.

29
PH, Cahier 23, 6/28/54, SLA.

30
Frank Rich, ‘American Pseudo’,
New York Times Magazine
, 12 December 1999.

31
Lucretia Stewart, ‘Animal Lover’s Beastly Murders’,
Sunday Telegraph
, 8 September 1991.

32
Kaleidoscope
, BBC Radio, 17 March 1975.

33
PH, ‘The Novel’.

34
PH, Letter to Alain Oulman, 6 August 1979, CLA.

35
James Campbell, ‘Murder, She (Usually) Wrote’,
New York Times
, 27 October 2002.

36
PH, Letter to Alain Oulman, 26 July 1979, CLA.

37
PH, Letter to Alain Oulman, 10 September 1979, CLA.

38
Kate Kingsley Skattebol, Letter to the author, 21 May 2002; PH’s story ‘The Trouble with Mrs Blynn, The Trouble with the World’,
The New Yorker
, 27 May 2002.

39
Joan Dupont, ‘Criminal Pursuits’,
New York Times Magazine
, 12 June 1988.

40
Ian Hamilton, ‘Patricia Highsmith’,
New Review
, August 1977.

41
Craig Brown, ‘Too Busy Writing to be a Writer’,
Daily Telegraph
, 29 January 2000 .

42
Larry Ashmead, Letter to the author, 7 November 2002.

43
Janice Robertson, Letter to the author, 10 October 2002.

44
PH, Letter to Janice Robertson, 15 February 1973, JR.

45
Interview with Janice Robertson, 10 October 2002.

46
Interview with Roger Smith, 14 October 2002.

47
Publishing Proposal,
A Dog’s Ransom
, Heinemann, JR; figures quoted include home and export.

48
Interview with Gary Fisketjon, 21 May 1999.

49
Ibid.

50
Larry Ashmead, Letter to the author, 7 November 2002.

51
Rosemarie Pfluger,
Of Books and their Makers: Diogenes, Portrait of a Publishing House
, September 1998, SF DRS and 3sat.

52
Ibid.

53
Ibid.

54
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 7 November 1970, SLA.

55
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 5 October 1972, SLA.

56
Interview with Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 14 May 1999.

57
Pfluger,
Of Books and their Makers
.

58
PH, Cahier 31, 1/5/70, SLA.

59
Lucretia Stewart, ‘Animal Lover’s Beastly Murders’,
Sunday Telegraph
, 8 September 1991.

60
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 25 June 1969, SLA.

61
PH, Letter to Ronald Blythe, 16 August 1970, RB.

62
PH,
A Dog’s Ransom
, p. 161.

63
Alain Oulman, Letter to PH, 28 September 1971, CLA.

64
PH, Letter to Alain Oulman, 1 October 1971, CLA.

65
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 9 May 1971, SLA.

66
PH, Cahier 31, 6/5/71, SLA.

67
PH, Cahier 31, 7/14/71, SLA.

68
PH, Cahier 31, 8/25/71, SLA.

69
PH, Letter to Barbara Ker-Seymer, 24–25 October 1970, SLA.