Free Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson Page A

University of Texas at Austin, (which holds the Alfred A. Knopf, Harper, and William A. Bradley Literary Agency collections); the New York Public Library, ( The New Yorker records); Temple University, Paley Library, Urban Archives, Philadelphia; Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Madison, Wisconsin, for access to the Gore Vidal Collection (now held at Houghton Library, Harvard University); and Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York. In particular I would like to thank Donald Glassman, archivist at Barnard College; Elisabeth Laye at Calmann-Lévy; Jean Ashton at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York; Tara Wenger at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the University of Texas at Austin; Wayne Furman, Office of Special Collections, the New York Public Library; Brenda Wright and Sarah Sherman, Temple University, Urban Archives; Benjamin Brewster, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Madison, Wisconsin; and Lesley Leduc at Yaddo.
         Other curators, libraries and institutions which have provided invaluable help include: Douglas Anderson and Tammy Hiltz at the Ashtabula Reference Library, Ohio; Blaine County Court Records Library, Idaho; National Library, British Film Institute, London; Dr Christopher Fletcher, the British Library, London; British Library Newspaper Library; Fort Worth Public Library, Texas; Fort Worth Independent School District, Texas; Walt Reed at Illustration House, New York; Julia Richman High School, New York; New Hope Public Library, Pennsylvania; New York Historical Society; Birgitta H. Bond at the James Michener Arts Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania; PS 122 Queens, Astoria, New York; the Queens Borough Public Library, New York; Ridgewood Public Library, New Jersey; Tarrant County Records Library, Fort Worth, Texas.
         For permission to quote further copyright material, I would like to thank the following: Jean-Etienne Cohen-Séat, president of Calmann-Lévy; Richard Ovenden, Edinburgh University for the unpublished letters and diaries of Arthur and Cynthia Koestler; and Olivia Kahn, the sister of the late Joan Kahn.
         I must also acknowledge the help of Anna von Planta, Ulrich Weber and Lucienne Schwery, who rendered sections of Highsmith’s diaries written in idiosyncratic French, German, Spanish and Italian into clear, concise English.
         A large number of people agreed to talk to me about their memories of Patricia Highsmith and I would like to thank each of them for their time, honesty and insight. Every one of them made a special contribution to this book. Interviews have been conducted with the following: Marion Aboudaram, Tobias Ammann, Irma Andina, Larry Ashmead, Bettina Berch, Vivien De Bernardi, Ruth Bernhard, Ronald Blythe, Tabea Blumenschein, Jack Bond, Edith Brandel, Craig Brown, Susan Brynteson, Monique Buffet, Peter Burton, Mary Cable, Frederique Chambrelent, Heather Chasen, Ann Clark, Roger Clarke, Dan Coates, Don Coates, Betty Curry, David Diamond, Burt Diethelm, Julia Diethelm, Sarah Dunant, Joan Dupont, Maggie Eversol, Gary Fisketjon, Brian Glanville, Hester Green, Barbara Grier, Madeleine Harmsworth, Tanja Howarth, Anita Huber, Peter Huber, Richard Ingham, Buffie Johnson, Deborah Karp, H.R.F. Keating, Daniel Keel, Priscilla Kennedy, Jonathan Kent, Michael Kerr, Linda Ladurner, Carl Laszlo, Charles Latimer, Peggy Lewis, Bee Loggenberg, Patricia Losey, Ingeborg Lüscher, Christa Maerker, Muriel Mandelbaum, Anne Morneweg, Gudrun Mueller, Phyllis Nagy, Ulrike Ottinger, Otto Penzler, Phillip Powell, Tristram Powell, Donald S. Rice, Janice Robertson, Barbara Roett, Bruno Sager, Marilyn Scowden, Rita Semel, Kate Kingsley Skattebol, Roger Smith, Anne Elisabeth Suter, Alex Szogyi, Peter Thomson, William Trevor, David Williams and Francis Wyndham.
         I would also like to thank the following for their letters to me: Pamela Anderson, Larry Ashmead, Thomas Beckman, Vivien De Bernardi, Michel Block, Ann Clark,