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4.
Ibid.
5.
David Streitfeld, “Highsmith's Final Twist,”
Washington Post
, 8 Mar. 1988.
6.
David Streitfeld,
Washington Post
, 29 Jan. 1989.
7.
David Streitfeld letter to the author, 2 Jan. 2006.
8.
CWA Otto Penzler, 27 Dec. 2002.
9.
CWA Daniel Keel, 12 Apr. 2003.
35. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 2
1.
Diary, 17, 18 Sept. 1988.
2.
PH letters to Tobias Amman, 1988â90.
3.
Cahier 22, 3/1/52 (misdated in cahier; it's 1953).
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Ibid.
8.
PH letter to MB, 11 Oct. 1982 (Collection Monique Buffet).
9.
CWA Wim Wenders, 20 Sept. 2006.
10.
CWA Daniel Keel, 20 Mar. and 12 Apr. 2003. It could hardly have escaped Pat's attention that, with Daniel Keel, she added another Daniel to the long line of Daniels that had been her Coates family inheritance.
11.
CWA Marianne Liggenstorfer-Fritsch, 20 Mar. 2003.
12.
Ibid.
13.
Ibid.
14.
Ibid.
15.
PH letter to Dr. Girsberger, 19 Dec. 1991.
16.
PH letter to KKS, 20 Dec. 1987.
17.
PH letter to MB, 2 Feb 1988 (Collection Monique Buffet).
18.
Ibid.
19.
PH letter to Barbara Skelton, quoted in Skelton, “Patricia Highsmith at Home.”
20.
PH letter to KKS, 25 Apr. 1992.
21.
Liz Calder, “Patricia Highsmith,”
Oldie
, Mar. 1995.
22.
CWA Marylin Scowden, 1 Sept. 2002.
23.
Ibid.
24.
Ibid.
25.
Cahier 35, 1/15/80.
26.
CWA Daniel Keel, 20 Mar. 2003.
27.
Ibid.
28.
PH, “Winter in the Ticino,” in
Ticking Along with the Swiss
, edited by Dianne Dicks (Basel: Bergli Books, 1988).
29.
CWA David Streiff, 19 Sept. 2002.
30.
PH, “Winter in the Ticino.”
31.
Ibid.
32.
PH letter to KKS, 20 Mar. 1984.
33.
PH, “Winter in the Ticino.”
34.
Cahier 37, 6/10/88.
35.
Ibid., 12/5/89.
36.
PH letter to KKS, 15 May 1978.
37.
Ibid., 14 May 1983.
38.
PH letter to Anne Uhde, 6 Mar. 1983.
39.
PH letter to Patricia Losey, 16 Apr. 1984.
40.
PH, “Winter in the Ticino.”
41.
CWA David Streiff, 30 July 2002.
42.
Ibid.
43.
Ibid.
44.
Ibid.
45.
Documentary film, David Streiff, outtakes, Switzerland, 1991.
46.
Cahier 30, 12/12/68.
47.
PH,
Strangers on a Train,
p. 251.
48.
Ibid., pp. 180â81.
49.
PH,
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), p. 410.
50.
Ibid., p. 414.
51.
Ibid., p. 416.
52.
Cahier 34, 4/30/77.
53.
Ibid., 7/25/77.
54.
Ibid., 12/10/77.
55.
Skelton, “Patricia Highsmith at Home.”
36. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 3
1.
Cahier 36, 10/18/83.
2.
Ibid., 3/24/84.
3.
Ibid., 4/16/84.
4.
Ibid., 4/7/83.
5.
Ibid., 10/12/84.
6.
CWA Muriel Spark, 24 May 2005.
7.
Anita Brookner, “Found in the Street,”
Spectator
, 19 Apr. 1986.
8.
Alain Oulman letter to PH, 19 Aug. 1985 (CLA).
9.
Terrence Rafferty, “Found in the Street,”
The New Yorker
, 4 Jan. 1988.
10.
Francis Wyndham, “Miss Highsmith,”
New Statesman
, 31 May 1963.
11.
Julian Symons,
Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel: A History
(London: Faber & Faber, 1972), p. 178.
12.
Ibid.
13.
PH letter to KKS, 8 Mar. 1988.
14.
CWA Anne Morneweg, 22 Jan. 2004.
15.
PH,
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes
(London: Bloomsbury, 2005), p. 19.
16.
CWA Phyllis Nagy, 13 Oct. 2002.
17.
Cahier 37, 2/21/90 and 5/20/90.
18.
CWA Jack Klaff, 14 Jan. 2004.
19.
Cahier 35, 11/24/79.
20.
Cahier 36, 4/15/87.
21.
CWA Dan Walton Coates, 22 Nov. 2003, and Don Coates, 20 Apr. 2002.
22.
PH,
Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes,
p. 139.
23.
PH letter to KKS, 9 Sept. 1985.
24.
MCH letter to PH, 31 Sept. 1974.
25.
CWA Christa Maerker, 21 July 2004.
26.
Jeva Cralick letter to Dan and Florine Coates, Christmas, 1978.
27.
Ibid., 12 Mar. 1987.
37. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 4
1.
PH letter to Gore Vidal, 6 July 1979.
2.
Paul Bowles letter to PH, 15 Dec. 1991.
3.
PH letter to Gore Vidal, 29 Jan. 1988.
4.
Cyril Connolly, “Koestler at Sixty,”
Sunday Times
, 19 Sept. 1965.
5.
Cahier 37, 8/19/88.
6.
Ibid., 8/29/88.
7.
CWA Edmund White, 19 Aug. 2006.
8.
Edmund White, “Paul Bowles,” in
Arts and Letters
(San Francisco: Cleis Press, 2004).
9.
Cahier 35, 1/9/88.
10.
Stéphanie Cudré-Mauroux, “Tom Ripley, collectionneur et psychopathe,”
Studer, Bärlach, Ripley, Gunten & Co., Quarto
, revue des Archives littéraires suisses, 21â22, 2006.
11.
Cahier 37, 12/5/89.
12.
PH letters to KKS, 16 and 28 Oct. 1988.
13.
CWA Peter Goedel, 16 June 2002. All subsequent quotations concerning Goedel's dealings with PH are from this 16 June interview, unless otherwise attributed.
14.
CWA Richard Schroeder, 19 Jan. 2004.
15.
PH letter to Patricia Losey, 7 Jan. 1989.
16.
PH postcard to Peter Goedel, undated (Collection Peter Goedel).
38. The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 5
1.
Cahier 36, 26/1/87.
2.
Ibid., 29/1/87.
3.
Ibid., 25/1/87.
4.
Ibid., 20/8/87.
5.
Ibid., 25/9/87.
6.
Ibid., 4/3/84.
7.
CWA Vivien De Bernardi, 15 Aug. 2002.
8.
PH letter to KKS, 1 Sept. 1990.
9.
Ibid., 25 Apr. 1990.
10.
Ibid., 26 Aug. 1987.
11.
Cahier 32, 1/26/70.
12.
CWA Heather Chasen, 22 Sept. 2002.
13.
CWA Alex Szogyi, 11 Dec. 2001.
14.
Ibid.
15.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 22 Mar. 1973.
16.
Alex Szogyi letter to PH, 19 June 1978.
17.
PH letter to Lil Picard, 23 Oct. 1974 (UIL).
18.
PH letter to KKS, 1 Dec. 1986.
19.
CWA Peter Huber, 18 Apr. 2003.
20.
PH letter to KKS, 30 Dec. 1987.
21.
CWA Peter Huber, 18 Apr. 2003.
22.
PH letter to KKS, 27 May 1991.
23.
Cahier 37, 30/6/91.
24.
Cahier 37, 14/3/92.
25.
PH letter to KKS, 24 Apr. 1990.
26.
PH letter to Alex Szogyi, 22â23 Jan. 1972.
27.
Marc Brandel letter to PH, 6 Jan. 1987.
28.
Ibid., 17 Nov. 1979.
29.
Cahier 36, 27/8/86.
30.
Cahier 36,
Brompton Account,
AprilâJuly 1986. The entire history of Pat's lung operation is taken from two pages in Cahier 36, labelled
Brompton Account.
31.
The Cry of the Owl, Edith's Diary, Found in the Street, A Game for the Living, Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes, Those Who Walk Away, The Tremor of Forgery, The Two Faces of January, Eleven.
32.
CWA Anne Elizabeth Suter, 8 July 2004.
33.
CWA Gary Fisketjon, 10 Dec. 2002.
34.
CWA Phyllis Nagy, 13 Oct. 2002.
The Cake that was Shaped Like a Coffin: Part 6
1.
Rosalind Constable letter to PH, 21 Feb. 1983.