Beautiful Shadow (96 page)

28
PH, Cahier 2, 7/8/40, SLA.

29
PH, ‘An American Book Bag’, 1974, SLA.

30
PH, Letter to Stanley Highsmith, 29 August 1970, SLA.

31
PH, Cahier 27, 12/28/64, SLA.

32
PH, Cahier 23, 10/16/54, SLA.

33
PH, Diary 2, 11 June 1942, SLA.

34
PH, Cahier 31, 1/12/70, SLA.

35
Hannah Carter, ‘Queens of Crime’,
Guardian
, 1 May 1968.

3 A house divided 1927–1933

1
Robert A.M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin, Thomas Mellins,
New York 1930
:
Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
, Rizzoli International Publications Inc., New York, 1987, p. 29.

2
St John Ervine, ‘New York – The City of Beauty’,
Vanity Fair
, March 1921.

3
William Bristol Shaw, quoted in Stern et al,
New York 1930
,
p. 35.

4
Works Progress Administration,
New York City Guide
, Guilds’ Committee for Federal Writers’ Publications Inc.
,
Random House, New York, 1939, p. 52.

5
Ann Douglas,
Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920
s, Picador, London, 1995, p. 17.

6
PH, ‘The World’s Champion Ball-Bouncer’,
Woman’s Home Companion
, April 1947.

7
Ibid.

8
Walter Lippmann,
A Preface to Morals
, quoted in Douglas,
Terrible Honesty
, p. 17.

9
F. Scott Fitzgerald, ‘My Lost City’, in
The Crack-Up
, ed. Edmund Wilson, New Directions, New York, 1945, p. 25.

10
Ibid.

11
Jane Mushabac, Angela Wigan,
A Short and Remarkable History of New York City
, Fordham University Press, New York, 1999.

12
Ford Maddox Ford,
New York is Not America
, Albert & Charles Boni, New York, 1927.

13
Peter Marcus,
New York: The Nation’s Metropolis
, Brentano’s, New York, 1921.

14
Book Beat
, Interview with Donald Swaim, CBS Radio, 29 October 1987, DS.

15
In her unpublished essay, ‘A Try At Freedom’, PH locates the school on West 99th Street, but after checking with the New York Historical Society no such school can be found. Most likely the school Highsmith attended in 1927 was PS 166 on West 89th Street, built by C.B.J. Snyder in 1898.

16
PH, ‘A Try At Freedom’, SLA.

17
PH, Cahier 26, 5/3/62, SLA.

18
PH, ‘Sherlock Holmes From Home’,
Queen
, November 1969.

19
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, The Writer Inc., Boston, 1966, p. 75.

20
PH, Cahier 7, 6/23/42, SLA.

21
PH, Cahier 11, 5/29/44, SLA.

22
Pupil Records, PS 122 Queens, Astoria, New York list her address as 2418 28th St.; Queens Phone Directory, Summer 1932, consulted at the Queens Borough Public Library, lists it as 2482 28th St.

23
Vincent F. Seyfried, William Asadorian,
Old Queens, N.Y. in Early Photographs
, Dover Publications Inc., New York, 1991.

24
Arleigh Homes advertisement,
New York Herald
, 10 June 1923.

25
Lewis Mumford, ‘The Sky Line: Bridges and Beaches’,
The New Yorker
, 17 July 1937.

26
The New Yorker
, 13 November 1929, quoted in Douglas,
Terrible Honesty
, p. 17.

27
PH, Cahier 13, 2/8/46, SLA.

28
Pupil Records, PS 122 Queens, Astoria, New York.

29
PH, Cahier 26, 9/6/62, SLA.

30
PH, ‘A Try At Freedom’, SLA.

31
Sydney Smith, ed.,
The Human Mind Revisited, Essays in Honor of Karl A. Menninger
, International Universities Press Inc., New York, 1978, p. 14.

32
Karl Menninger,
The Human Mind
, Knopf, New York, 1930, p. 3.

33
PH, Letter to Karl Menninger, 8 April 1989, SLA.

34
Menninger,
The Human Mind,
p. ix.

35
Janet Watts, ‘Love and Highsmith’,
Observer Magazine
, 9 September 1990.

36
PH, Letter to Diogenes Verlag, corrections to Notes on
Highsmith Chronik zu Leben Und Werk
, SLA.

37
Ian Hamilton, ‘Patricia Highsmith’,
New Review,
August 1977.

38
Craig Brown, ‘The Hitman and Her’,
The Times
, Saturday Review, 28 September 1991.

39
‘Patricia Highsmith: A Gift for Murder’,
The South Bank Show
, LWT, 14 November 1982.

40
PH, Letter to Willie Mae Coates, undated, SLA.

41
PH, ‘A Try At Freedom’, SLA.

42
Ibid.

43
Ibid.

44
Interview with Vivien De Bernardi, 23 July 1999.

45
PH, Letter to Stanley Highsmith, 1 September 1970, SLA.

46
PH, Letter to Mary Highsmith, 16 March 1973, SLA.

47
PH, ‘Girl Campers’,
Woman’s World
, July 1935.

48
Ibid.

49
Ibid.

50
Ibid.

51
PH, Letter to Mary Highsmith, 16 March 1973, SLA.

52
Interview with Vivien De Bernardi.

53
PH, Letter to Stanley Highsmith, 29 August 1970, SLA.

54
PH, Letter to Jay Bernard Plangman, 8 August 1970, SLA.

55
PH, Letter to Nini Wells, 29 March 1972, SLA.

4 Suppressions 1933–1938

1
PH, Cahier 36, 31/10/83, SLA.

2
PH, Cahier 19, 7/22/50, SLA.

3
PH, Diary 8, 2 April 1948, SLA.

4
PH, Letter to Dan Coates, 26 December 1968, SLA.

5
PH Cahier 4, 8/24/40, SLA.

6
Naim Attallah, ‘The Oldie Interview, Patricia Highsmith’,
The Oldie
, 3 September 1993.

7
PH, Letter to Nini Wells, 29 March 1972, SLA.

8
Ibid.

9
PH, Cahier 36, 3/9/83, SLA.

10
Interview with Bert Diethelm, 27 March 1999.

11
PH, Letter to Alex Szogyi, 18 February 1969, SLA.

12
PH, Cahier 10, 5/22/43, SLA.

13
George J. Lankevich,
American Metropolis: A History of New York City
, New York University Press, New York & London, 1998, p. 163.

14
Michael E. Parrish,
Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression 1920
–1941, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London, 1992, p. 289.

15
PH,
Strangers on a Train
, Cresset Press, London, 1950, p. 212.

16
Works Progress Administration,
New York City Guide
, Guilds’ Committee for Federal Writers’ Publications Inc.
,
Random House, New York, 1939, p. 124.

17
Caroline F. Ware,
Greenwich Village, 1920
–30, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1935, quoted in George Chauncey,
Gay New York: The Making of the Gay Male World 1890
–1940, Flamingo, HarperCollins, 1995, p. 233.

18
Bruce Rogers, ‘Degenerates of Greenwich Village, Current Psychology and Psychoanalysis’, December 1936, p. 29ff, quoted in Chauncey,
Gay New York
, p. 234.

19
Selma Berrol,
The Empire City: New York and its People
,
1624
–1996, Praeger Publishers, Westport, Connecticut & London, 1997, p. 117.

20
New York City School Buildings 1806
–1956, Board of Education, quoted in Robert A.M. Stern, Gregory Gilmartin, Thomas Mellins,
New York 1930
:
Architecture and Urbanism Between the Two World Wars
, Rizzoli International Publications Inc., New York, 1987, p. 120.