Beautiful Shadow (95 page)

25
W.H. Auden, ‘The Guilty Vicarage’, 1948,
The Dyer’s Hand and Other Essays
, Random House, New York, 1962, p. 147.

26
Diana Cooper-Clark, ‘Patricia Highsmith – Interview’,
The Armchair Detective
, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1981, p. 320.

27
Ibid., p.316.

28
Graham Greene, Foreword,
Eleven
, Heinemann, London, 1970, p. x.

29
Ibid., p. ix.

30
Ibid.

31
PH, Cahier 6, 2/14/42, SLA.

32
Interview with Julia Diethelm, 27 March 1999.

33
Interview with Bert Diethelm, 27 March 1999.

34
PH, Diary 8, 21 September 1949, SLA.

35
Interview with Daniel Keel.

36
Interview with Larry Ashmead, 20 May 1999.

37
Craig Brown, ‘No Ordinary Crime’,
Homes & Gardens
, March 1981.

38
PH, Cahier 15, 3/25/47, SLA.

39
PH, Diary 2, 1942, SLA.

40
PH, Letter to Charles Latimer, 22 March 1979, SLA.

41
PH, Letter to Charles Latimer, 20 July 1978, SLA.

42
PH, Cahier 2, 7/18/40, SLA.

43
PH, Cahier 22, 10/9/53, SLA.

44
PH,
The Blunderer
, Cresset Press, London, 1956, p. 140.

45
PH, Cahier 6, 5/10/42, SLA.

46
Ibid.

1 The forever seeking 1921 and before

1
PH, Cahier 8, 11/18/42, SLA.

2
PH, Cahier 16, 11/13/47, SLA.

3
PH, Cahier 4, 8/7/40, SLA.

4
Interview with Phyllis Nagy, 7 October 1999.

5
PH,
Strangers on a Train
, Cresset Press, London, 1950, p. 36.

6
Duncan Fallowell, ‘The Talented Miss Highsmith’,
Sunday Telegraph Magazine
, 20 February 2000.

7
PH, Letter to Calmann-Lévy, 6 November 1951, CLA.

8
T.R. Fehrenbach,
Lone Star:
A History of Texas and the Texans,
American Legacy Press, New York, 1983, p. 257.

9
Ibid.

10
Ibid., p. 717.

11
Ibid., p. 304.

12
J’Nell L. Pate,
Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards 1887
–1987, Texas A & M University Press, 1988.

13
Tarrant County Historic Resources Survey, Phase III, Fort Worth’s Southside, 1986.

14
PH,
Strangers on a Train
, p. 5.

15
Ibid, p. 35.

16
Joan Dupont, ‘The Mysterious Patricia Highsmith’,
Paris Metro
, 9 November 1977.

17
Rub Kneasel, Letter to PH, 9 November 1967, SLA.

18
Samuel Smith Stewart, Family History, 1935, SLA.

19
Interview with Don Coates, 26 November 1999.

20
Interview with Dan Coates, 20 November 1999.

21
John Wakeman, ed.,
World Authors 1950
–1970,
A Companion Volume to Twentieth-Century Authors
, The H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 1975, p. 641.

22
PH, Cahier 8, 8/23/42, SLA.

23
Interview with Dan Coates.

24
Dan Coates, Letter to PH, 20 April 1990, SLA.

25
PH, Cahier 13, 9/20/45, SLA.

26
Dan Coates, Letter to PH, 20 April 1990, SLA.

27
Joan Juliet Buck, ‘A Terrifying Talent’,
Observer Magazine
, 20 November 1977.

28
Sarah Jane Deutsch, ‘From Ballots To Breadlines 1920–1940’, from Nancy F. Cott, ed.,
No Small Change: A History of Women in the United States
, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000, p. 440.

29
Mary Highsmith, Letter to PH, undated, SLA.

30
Interview with Don Coates.

31
Interview with Dan Coates.

32
Walter Plangman, Letter to PH, 28 September 1973, SLA.

33
Jay Bernard Plangman, Letter to PH, 4 January 1971, SLA.

34
PH, Letter to Marc Brandel, 11 November 1985, EB.

35
Ibid.

36
Walter Plangman, Letter to PH, 22 August 1971, SLA.

37
Pat Patrick, ‘Plangman Gave Them Brush With Life’,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
, 19 January 1975.

38
Ibid.

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

40
PH, Letter to Jay Bernard Plangman, 15 July 1971, SLA.

41
Jay Bernard Plangman, Letter to PH, 30 July 1971, SLA.

42
Dan Coates, Letter to PH, 6 August 1988, SLA.

43
Deutsch, ‘From Ballots to Breadlines’ in
No Small Change
, p. 441.

44
Ibid., p. 413.

45
Frederick Lewis Allen,
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the Nineteen-twenties
, Harper & Brothers, New York, London, 1931, p. 108.

46
Jay Bernard Plangman, Letter to PH, 30 July 1971, SLA.

47
Dan Coates, Letter to PH, 6 August 1988, SLA.

48
Interview with Dan Coates.

49
PH, Letter to Mary Highsmith, undated, SLA.

2 Born under a sickly star 1921–1927

1
Michael E. Parrish,
Anxious Decades: America in Prosperity and Depression 1920
–1941, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London, 1992, p. 75.

2
Harold Stearns,
Civilization in the United States
, quoted in Michael E. Parrish,
Anxious Decades
, p. 191.

3
Parrish,
Anxious Decades
, p. 154.

4
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
This Side of Paradise
, W. Collins & Sons & Co., London, 1921, p. 292.

5
PH, Cahier 5, 9/1/41, SLA.

6
PH, ‘Daran glaube ich’,
Welt am Sonntag
, 9 October 1977.

7
Diana Cooper-Clark, ‘Patricia Highsmith – Interview’,
The Armchair Detective
, Volume 14, No. 4, 1981, p. 317.

8
PH, Cahier 6, 4/11/42 , SLA.

9
Bettina Berch, ‘A Talk with Patricia Highsmith’, 15 June 1984, unpublished interview, SLA.

10
PH, ‘An American Book Bag’, 1974, SLA.

11
PH, Cahier 3, 1/30/41, SLA.

12
Ibid.

13
PH, Letter to Bettina Berch, 2 July 1983, SLA.

14
Duncan Fallowell, ‘The Talented Miss Highsmith’,
Sunday Telegraph Magazine
, 20 February 2000.

15
Berch, ‘A Talk with Patricia Highsmith’.

16
PH, ‘An Weihnachten gewöhnt man sich’ (‘Some Christmases – Mine or Anybody’s’),
Frankfurter Allgemeine Magazin
, 20 January 1991.

17
Ibid.

18
PH, ‘An American Book Bag’, 1974, SLA.

19
Duncan Fallowell, ‘The Talented Miss Highsmith’.

20
John Wakeman, ed.,
World Authors 1950
–1970, A Companion Volume to Twentieth Century Authors, The H.W. Wilson Company, New York, 1975, p. 642.

21
William Trevor,
Independent on Sunday
, 26 March 1995.

22
Susannah Clapp, ‘The Simple Art of Murder’,
New Yorker
, 20 December 1999.

23
PH, Cahier 17, 3/8/48, SLA.

24
PH, Cahier 6, 4/12/42, SLA.

25
Interview with Vivien De Bernardi, 23 July 1999.

26
PH, Letter to Anita Bryant, 13 May 1978, SLA.

27
PH, ‘Between Jane Austen and Philby’, written for
Vogue
, September 1968, SLA.