MacShane, Frank
Macy, Gertrude
Madame X (film)
Mademoiselle magazine
Madison Avenue, New York City
Maerker, Christa
Maggie (ex-lover)
Mailer, Norman
Maintenon, Mme de
Malavoy, Christophe
male anatomy, PH’s clinical interest in
Mallon, Mary (“Typhoid Mary”)
Mallorca
Malraux, André
Manhattan
Man in the Queue (unused title)
Man Provoked, A (unused title)
“Man’s Best Friend” (PH story)
Mansfield, Katherine
manuscripts, unfinished, left at PH’s death
Marbury, Elisabeth “Bessie”
Marge Sherwood (character)
Maria (Natica Waterbury’s lover)
Maria (Rosalind Constable’s former lover)
Marie’s Crisis, New York City
Marlowe, Walter
married women, PH’s falling for
Marseille
Marvel Comics
Mary, Queen of Scots
Matcha, Jack
Matta, Serge
Matthiesen, F. O., American Renaissance
Maud and Claud (pigeon characters)
Maugham, Somerset
Max und Moritz (German comic strip)
May, Mathilda
McBridge, Donna
McCarthy, Mary
McCausland, Elizabeth
McCullers, Carson
writings
McCullers, Reeves
McCullers, Rita
McCurdy, Mary
McFarland, Ann
McIntosh & Otis
Mdivani, David
Meacham, Anne
Meaker, Marijane
character based on
Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s
Intimate Victims
Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick
Pierre
memoirs, distinguished from diaries
Mencken, H. L.
Menninger, Karl
The Human Mind
Mermaids on the Golf Course (PH short-story collection)
Merrill, James
Methodism
Mexicans
Mexico
Mexico City
Miami, Fla.
Michel Publications
“Middle-Class Housewife, The” (PH story)
Middleton, Stanley
“Mightiest Mornings, The” (PH story)
“Mighty Nice Man, A” (PH story)
Miller, Alice, The Prisoner of Childhood
Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman
Miller, Claude
Millett, Kate
Minots’ farm, New Hampshire
Miou-Miou
Miranda the Panda Is on the Veranda (PH children’s book)
Mitchell, Margaret, Gone with the Wind
Mitford, Nancy
Don’t Tell Alfred
Modern Baby magazine
Moelich, Ingeborg
daughter of
Molière
Monash, Paul
Mona’s restaurant, New York City
Moncourt, France
PH’s routine in
PH tries to move back to, after selling her house
as theme
Moncourt, France, PH’s house in, 21 rue de la Boissière
raided by French tax authority
sold
money, PH’s obsession with
Montbazon
Monterrey
Montmachoux, France
“Mount-my-shoe”
Montmachoux, France, PH’s house in
PH buys
shared with Elizabeth Lyne
Montpellier
Moraes, Henrietta
Moreau, Jeanne
Morgan, Anne
Morgan, Claire (pseudonym of PH)
Morneweg, Anne
Morocco
Mosel, Tad
Moser, DéDé
Moses
mother-daughter relations
“Mother-in-Law, The” (PH story)
“Mountain Treasure” (working title)
Mozart, W. A.
Mrabet, Mohammed
Mroek, Slawomir
“Mrs. Afton, Among Thy Green Braes” (PH story)
Munch, Edvard
Munich
murder, PH’s obsession with
Murdoch, Iris
Murphy, Gerald
Murray, Mae
Murray, Natalia Danesi
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Myers, Alice Lee Herrick
Myers, Fanny Lee (later Brennan)
Myers, Johnny
Myers, Richard
“My First Job” (PH article)
“My Life with Greta Garbo” (PH article)
“My New Year’s Toast” (diary excerpt)
“Mysterious Cemetery, The” (PH story)
Mysterious Press
Mystery Writers of America
Nabokov, Vladimir
Lolita
“Nabuti: Warm Welcome to a UN
Committee” (PH story)
Nagy, Phyllis
Naiad Press
Naomi Barton Markham (character)
Naples
Narcejac
Nathan, George Jean
National Lampoon
Naziism
Nedor comics
Negro Alley, Fort Worth, Texas
Nemours, France
Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Neville, Jill
New American Library
New Hampshire
New Hope, Pa.
(1960) 113 South Sugan Road residence
(1963) PH leaves
New Mexico
New Orleans
New Orleans Times-Picayune
New School for Social Research
New Statesman
Newsweek
Newton, Colonel (of Taxco)
Newton, Dr. (of Taxco)
New York Book Beat (radio show)
New York City
drinking behavior in
Golden Years of
PH’s upbringing in
PH visits to
as plot setting
racial divisions
New York City residences of PH
in Astoria. See Astoria, Queens
One Bank Street
353 East 56th Street
345 East 57th Street
East 60s
48 Grove Street
75 Irving Place
35 Morton Street
West 103rd Street
New Yorker, The, magazine
New York Herald Tribune
New York Review of Books, The
New York Times, The
New York Times Book Review
New York University
Nice
Nicholson, Johnny
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nin, Anaïs
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
Nixon, Richard
“No End in Sight” (PH story)
nonfiction works, PH’s
North Africa
North Brother Island
notebooks. See cahiers
“Notes on Suspense” (PH essay)
Nothing That Meets the Eye: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith (PH short-story collection)
novelists, homosexual
novels, PH’s, chronological list of
Oates, Joyce Carol
Oaxaca
Observer, The
Observer Magazine, The
obsessions of PH
as key to connection of PH’s life and writing
organizing principle of this book
O’Connor, Flannery
Odeon, New York City
Odette’s, New Hope
&nb
sp; O’Dwyer, William
O. Henry Prize Stories
Okoshken, Samuel
Oksner, Bob
Oldie magazine
Oliver, Mary
Olympia Portable Deluxe typewriter
O’Neill, Eugene
“One Is a Number You Can’t Divide” (PH story)
On the Waterfront (film)
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Orient Express (theme)
Orlando, Fla.
Ormonde, Czenzi
orphanages, PH’s idea for
Other, The (unused title)
Ottinger, Ulrike
Oulman, Alain
Owen Markman (character)
Oz, Amos
Paine, Thomas
Palermo
Palestine
Palisades, N.Y.
Paris
with Caroline Besterman in
PH first time in
PH visits to
PH with Mother Mary in
play produced in
publicity trips to
Paris Review
Parker, Dorothy
Parsons, Betty
Partisan Review
Paths of Lightening (unused title)
Patricia Highsmith-Plangman Residency at Yaddo
Paveth, Mr.
pedophilia (theme)
PEN American Center
Pennsylvania
Penot, Jacques
Penzler, Otto
People Who Knock on the Door (PH novel)
Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris
map of
“Perfect Alibi, The” (PH story)
Perkins, Helvetia
Perelman, S. J. and Laura
Perot, Ross
Perrin, Elula
Peter (girl classmate at Barnard)
Peters, Josef
Peters, Judith Conklin
Peterson
Caserne (American army base in Munich)
Pete’s Tavern, New York City
Petit, Christopher
pets, murders by
Phi Beta Kappa
Philby, Kim
Philip Carter (character)
Phillips, William
Phimister, Eveline
photographers, spying by
Picard, Lil
character based on
Picasso, Pablo
portrait of Gertrude Stein
Pif (dog)
Pines, Ned
Pissarro, Francisco
Plangman, Gesina
Plangman, Herman
Plangman, Herman II (PH’s paternal grandfather)
Plangman, Jay Bernard (PH’s biological father)
(1921) Mary Highsmith’s divorces, shortly before PH’s birth
(1933) PH meets for first time at age twelve
(1975) death of
career
a graphic artist
meets Mary Coates
Plangman, Walter (PH’s uncle)
Plangman family
“Please Don’t Shoot the Trees” (PH story)
Plein Soleil (film)
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction (PH nonfiction)
Poe, Edgar Allan
poems by PH
Point Summer Theatre
poison-pen letters (theme)
political themes, PH’s
Pony Stable restaurant, New York City
Pope, Martha Clarissa
Pope, Mary Ann
“Pope Sixtus VI” (PH story)
Porter, Cole
Porter, Don
Porter, Katherine Anne
Portugal
Portuguese
Positano, Italy
Pour Ellen bar
Poussin, Nicolas
Powell, Dawn, The Locusts Have No King
Powell, Philip Lloyd
Power of Negative Thinking, The (unused title)
prejudices, PH’s, racial and ethnic
Presbyterian church
PH in choir of
Presbyterians
“President Buck Jones Rallies and Waves the Flag” (PH story)
Price of Salt, The (PH novel)
bestsellerdom
concealed authorship of
plot
published
screen treatment of
“Primroses Are Pink” (PH story)
Prisoner, The (later Glass Cell)
Pritchard, David and wife (characters)
privacy, PH’s need for
Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, The (film)
Prix Goncourt, PH attends
Prix littéraire (American Film Festival)
Prohibition
Proust, Marcel
À la recherche du temps perdu
Proust Questionnaire
Provincetown, Mass.
Provincetown Landing bar
“Prude, The” (PH story)
Pryce-Jones, Alan
pseudonyms, of some witnesses in this book
psychoanalysis, PH in
publicity, PH eager for
Public School 122, New York City
Publishers Weekly
Puebla
Purple Noon (film)
Pursuit of Evil, The (unused title)
Pyroman (comic book)
Quality Comics
Qualunque, H. M. (pseudonym)
Queen magazine
Queen Mary (liner)
Queens, New York City
Queensborough Public Library, Astoria
“Quest for Blank Claveringi, The” (PH story)
“Quiet Night” (PH story)
Rafferty, Terrence
Rahv, Philip
Rainer, Luise
Ralph Linderman (character)
Rand, Ayn, The Fountainhead
Ravel, Maurice
Raven Award
Ray Garrett (character)
Reagan, Ronald
Real Life Comics (comic book)
Reed, Lou
Reed, Virginia
Reichardt, Wilfried
Reik, Theodore
The Unknown Murderer
Renata Hagnauer (character)
Rendell, Ruth
repetition, in PH plots
reviews and articles, PH’s
Revuers, the
Rice, Donald
Rice, Pierce
Richardson, Maurice
Richman, Julia
Rickenbacker, Eddie
Riefenstahl, Leni
Rikers Island
Rikki Markwalder (character)
Rimbaud, Arthur
Ripley, Dr.
Ripley, Robert, Believe It or Not cartoon
Ripley, Tom (character). See Tom Ripley
Ripley and the Money Boy (unused title)
Ripley books
Ripley’s Game (PH novel)
film made from
Ripley’s Luck (unused title)
Ripley Under Ground (PH novel)
film made from
Ripley Under Water (PH novel)
Ritz Hotel, Paris
Rizzoli’s bookstore, SoHo, New York City
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Robb, Graham
Robbins, Jerome
Robert Forester’s wife (character)
Robert Laffont publisher
Robertson, Janice
Robillot, Henri
Robinson, Jerry
Robinson, Jill
Roche, Ed
Roche, Ned
Roditi, Edouard
Roett, Barbara
quoted
Rodgers and Hart, Pal Joey
Rogersville, Tenn.
Rohner (Semel), Rita
Rolle, Switzerland
Roman, Ruth
Roman policier award
“Romantic, The” (PH story)
Rome
Romeo Salta’s bar
Romy Haag bar
Ron (Negro waiter)
Ronet, Maurice
Ronin, Mary
Roosev
elt, Eleanor, My Day (column)
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Rorem, Ned
Rosen, Sam
Rosenthal, Jean
Rosenthal, Renée
Ross, Barney
Rossot, François
Roth, Lynn
character based on
Roubicek, Dorothy
Rowohlt (publisher)
Ruby (PH’s cousin)
Ruedi, Peter
Rukeyser, Muriel
Ruskin, John
Sesame and Lilies
Ryan, Desmond
Ryan, Juliette
Ryan, Mary
Rydal’s Folly (unused title)
Saboteurs, The (PH play)
sadomasochism (S&M)
PH’s fascination with
Sager, Bruno
sailors, PH’s liking for
St. Mark’s Methodist Church, Fort Worth
St. Martin’s Press
St. Moritz, Switzerland
St. Regis Hotel, New York City
Saki, “Sredni Vashtar”
Sallich, Edgar S. (pseudonym for PH)
Salzburg
“Sam” (France Burke’s lover)
Samois-sur-Seine
house in
San Antonio, Texas
Sanft, Myron
Sanger, Margaret
Sangor, Ben
Sangor-Pines comics shop
sanity, a preoccupation of PH
San Sabba Displaced Persons camp
San Sebastian, Spain
Santa Fe, N.M.
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
Sarraute, Nathalie
Saturday Evening Post
Saturday Review
Savigneau, Josyane
Sayre, Zelda (later Fitzgerald)
Scarlett O’Hara (character)
Schartle, Patricia (later Myrer)
Schiff, Jack
Schleissheim Displaced Persons Camp
Schorer, Mark
Schroeder, Richard
Scowden, Marylin
Scribner’s bookstore, New York City
Second World War. See World War II
Secret Identities (comic book characters)
secrets
Seine-et-Marne
self-exposure, in notebooks and diaries
self-help
manuals
Senn, Kathleen Wiggins (Mrs. E. R.)
Sergeant Bill King (comic book)
Shakespeare, William
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