Free Beautiful Shadow by Andrew Wilson Page B

Philip Davis, Jennifer Dewey, Joan Dupont, Dorothy Edson, Maggie Eversol, Donald Glassman, Neil Gordon, Charles Latimer, Henry Lea, Sir Michael Levey, Marijane Meaker, Patricia Schartle Myrer, Janice Robertson, Kate Kingsley Skattebol, Winifer Skattebol, David Streiff, Gore Vidal, and Wim Wenders.
         Throughout the book I have quoted from a number of newspapers, magazines and critical journals. I would like thank the following writers: Naim Attallah, Hugo Barnacle, Helen Birch, the late Brigid Brophy, Craig Brown, Joan Juliet Buck, James Campbell, Susannah Clapp, Diana Cooper-Clark, Michael Dobbs, Joan Dupont, Geoffrey Elborn, Duncan Fallowell, Victoria Glendinning, Grey Gowrie, the late Ian Hamilton, Ena Kendall, William Leith, Craig Little, Blake Morrison, Gerald Peary, Margaret Pringle, Terrence Rafferty, Frank Rich, the late Lorna Sage, David Sexton, the late Barbara Skelton, Lucretia Stewart, the late Julian Symons, William Trevor, Sally Vincent, Janet Watts, Francis Wyndham. I would also like to thank Bettina Berch for her permission to quote at length from the transcript of her unpublished interview ‘A Talk With Patricia Highsmith’, 15 June 1984; Natasha De Bernardi for sending me ‘The Eye Reflecting the Whole’, her thesis on Highsmith; and Lucienne Schwery for ‘Der Nachlass Patricia Highsmith’.
         Acknowledgement is also due to a number of broadcast sources including the BBC Information and Archives; LWT; Sebastian Cody at Open Media, London; Donald L. Swaim’s interview for Book Beat (CBS Radio), Archives & Special Collections, Ohio University Libraries; and the National Sound Archive, London.
         For use of the photographs in the book I am grateful to the following: Associated Newspapers; Bantam Press; Naomi Brandel; the British Film Institute; Canal +; Ann Clark; Alberto Flammer; Priscilla Kennedy and her family; the Kobal collection; Bee Loggenberg; London Weekend Television; Ingeborg Lüscher; Miramax Films; Road Movies Filmproducktion GmbH; Kate Kingsley Skattebol; Jacques-Eric Strauss; Temple University, Urban Archives, Philadelphia; and, of course, the Swiss Literary Archives.
         At Bloomsbury I would like to thank Liz Calder, who commissioned the book and who remained enthusiastic from the outset, as well as my copy-editor Victoria Millar, assistant editor Katherine Greenwood and rights director Ruth Logan. My agent Clare Alexander at Gillon Aitken not only helped get the project off the ground, but she continued to act as a constant source of support and friendship. I must also thank Fanny Blake and Deborah Singmaster for the important roles they played in the gestation of this book.
         I would like to express my gratitude and love to those who have had to share me with the shadow of Patricia Highsmith over the last few years. Thank you to my family, close friends, everyone at Alpeneggstrasse, 10, Berne and Marcus Field.
         This book is dedicated to Kate Kingsley Skattebol and the late Charles Latimer, friends Highsmith entrusted with the job of ‘steering off the wrong biographers’ after her death. I hope I haven’t disappointed.

A Note on the Author
Andrew Wilson is a journalist who has written for most of Britain’s national newspapers, including the Observer , the Daily Telegraph , the Guardian , the Independent on Sunday and the Daily Mail . He is the author of Harold Robbins: The Man Who Invented Sex and The Lying Tongue (a novel). He is currently writing a book about the survivors of the Titanic. Wilson lives in London and Spain.

By Patricia Highsmith
     
    Novels
     
 
Strangers on a Train 1950
The Price of Salt (writing as Claire Morgan) 1952
(republished under her own name as Carol in 1990)
The Blunderer 1954
The Talented Mr Ripley 1955
Deep Water 1957
A Game for the Living 1958
This Sweet Sickness 1960
The Cry of the Owl 1962
The Two Faces of January 1964
The Glass Cell 1964
A Suspension of Mercy 1965
( The Story-Teller in the US)
Those Who