Beautiful Shadow (104 page)

3
Friedrich Nietzsche, ‘Assorted Opinions and Maxims’,
A Nietzsche Reader
, Selected and Translated by R.J. Hollingdale, Penguin Books, London, 1977, p. 232.

4
PH,
This Sweet Sickness
, p. 15.

5
Nietzsche, ‘Daybreak’,
A Nietzsche Reader
, p. 221.

6
Nietzsche, ‘Human, All Too Human’,
A Nietzsche Reader
, p. 215.

7
PH,
This Sweet Sickness
, p. 14.

8
Ibid., p. 16.

9
Ibid.

10
Nietzsche, ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’,
A Nietzsche Reader
, p. 243.

11
PH,
This Sweet Sickness
, p. 23.

12
Ibid., p. 172.

13
Ibid., p. 197.

14
Ibid., p. 167.

15
Ibid., p. 239.

16
Ibid., p. 240.

17
Nietzsche, ‘Daybreak’,
A Nietzsche Reader
, p. 234.

18
PH, Cahier 25, 6/13/58, SLA.

19
PH, Cahier 25, 11/5/58, SLA.

20
‘Meet Your Instructor . . . Mary Ronin’
,
Famous Artists School, Westport, Connecticut, undated.

21
Ibid.

22
Letter to PH, signed M and dated by Highsmith October or November 1958, SLA.

23
Ibid.

24
Ibid.

25
PH, Cahier 25, 12/30/58, SLA.

26
PH, Cahier 25, 11/5/58, SLA.

27
Ibid.

28
PH, Letter to Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 12 February 1959, SLA.

29
Joan Kahn, Letter to PH, 8 May 1959, HRA.

30
Ibid.

31
PH, Cahier 25, 2/18/59, SLA.

32
PH, Cahier 25, 2/15/59, SLA.

33
PH, Cahier 25, 5/24/59, SLA.

34
PH, Cahier 25, 6/11/59, SLA.

35
PH, Cahier 25, 10/21/59, SLA.

36
Duncan Fallowell, ‘The Talented Miss Highsmith’,
Sunday Telegraph Magazine
, 20 February 2000.

37
PH, Letter to Jenny Bradley, 29 December 1958, WBA.

38
Patricia S. Myrer, Letter to the author, 1 October 2000.

39
Patricia S. Myrer, Letter to the author, 24 February 2001.

40
Patricia S. Myrer, Letter to the author, 1 October 2000.

41
Ibid.

42
Patricia S. Myrer, Letter to the author, 3 September 2000.

18 A lurking liking for those that flout the law 1959–1960

1
PH, Cahier 25, 11/14/59, SLA.

2
David M. Potter,
People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character
, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1954, p. 71.

3
C. Wright Mills,
White Collar: The American Middle Classes
, Oxford University Press, New York, 1951, p. xx.

4
Ibid., p. ix.

5
Daniel Bell,
The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties
, The Free Press of Glencoe, Illinois, 1960, p. 116.

6
Chris Matthew, ‘Writing the wrong-doers’,
Radio Times
, 2 December 1972.

7
Neil Gordon, Letter to the author, 9 November 2001.

8
PH,
The Blunderer
, Cresset Press, London, 1956, p. 178.

9
Current Biography Yearbook
, 1990, p. 302.

10
Craig Brown, ‘Too Busy Writing to be a Writer’,
Daily Telegraph
, 29 January 2000.

11
Interview with Otto Penzler, 21 May 1999.

12
Interview with H.R.F. Keating, 20 June 2000.

13
Julian Symons,
Bloody Murder, From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History
, Faber & Faber, London, 1972, p. 91.

14
Julian Symons, ‘Life with a Likeable Killer’,
New York Times Book Review
, 18 October 1992.

15
Julian Symons,
The Modern Crime Story
, The Tragara Press, Edinburgh, 1980, p. 14.

16
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, The Writer Inc., Boston, 1966, p. 51.

17
Diana Cooper-Clark, ‘Patricia Highsmith – Interview’,
The Armchair Detective
, Vol. 14, No. 4, 1981.

18
Ibid.

19
Hannah Carter, ‘Queens of Crime’,
Guardian
, 1 May 1968.

20
PH, Letter to Jenny Bradley, 30 September 1961, WBA .

21
Margaret Pringle, ‘The Criminal Not The Crime’,
Nova
, May 1971.

22
Francis Wyndham, ‘Sick of Psychopaths’,
Sunday Times
, 11 April 1965.

23
Louise Roddon, ‘View to a kill’,
Today
, 6 April 1986.

24
Interview with Roger Clarke, 15 January 2001.

25
Interview with Vivien De Bernardi, 23 July 1999.

26
Interview with Kate Kingsley Skattebol, 12 December 2001.

27
PH, Cahier 23, 4/2/54, SLA.

28
PH, Diary 10, 27 October 1950, SLA.

29
PH,
A Game for the Living
, Heinemann, London, 1959, p. 87.

30
PH, Cahier 25, 2/7/59, SLA.

31
Ibid.

32
Ibid.

33
PH, Letter to Dan Coates, 12 December 1974, SLA.

34
Ibid.

35
PH, Diary 8, 23 May 1949, SLA.

36
PH, Cahier 25, 9/28/59, SLA.

37
PH, Cahier 25, 11/20/59, SLA.

38
PH, Letter to Joan Kahn, 17 November 1959, HRA.

39
PH, Cahier 25, 2/3/60, SLA.

40
PH, Cahier 25, 2/11/60, SLA.

19 The ultra neurotic 1960–1962

1
James Sandoe,
New York Herald Tribune Book Review
, 7 February 1960, p. 11.

2
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, The Writer Inc., Boston, 1966, p. 9.

3
PH, Cahier 25, 5/3/60, SLA.

4
PH, Letter to Joan Kahn, 6 September 1960, HRA.

5
PH, Letter to Jenny Bradley, 13 October 1960, WBA.

6
PH, Cahier 26, 10/14/60, SLA.

7
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 121.

8
Joan Kahn, Letter to Patricia Schartle, 21 February 1961, HRA.

9
Ibid.

10
PH, Letter to Joan Kahn, 29 February 1961, HRA.

11
Joan Kahn, Letter to PH, 3 May 1961, HRA.

12
PH, Letter to Joan Kahn, 10 May 1961, HRA.

13
PH, Letter to Jenny Bradley, 31 May 1961, WBA .

14
Anonymous reader report sent to Joan Kahn, 28 May 1962, HRA.

15
Joan Kahn, Letter to PH, 6 June 1962, HRA.

16
Brigid Brophy,
Don’t Never Forget, Collected Views and Reviews
, Jonathan Cape, London, 1966, p. 155.

17
Brigid Brophy, ‘Swindler and Son’,
New Statesman
, 28 February 1964.

18
Julian Symons, ‘Terror all the way’,
Sunday Times
, 23 February 1964.

19
PH,
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction
, p. 122.

20
PH, Cahier 26, 3/3/61, SLA.