Patricia Highsmith
Mary Patricia Plangman
American
Notable Author - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| 1921/01/19 | Mary Coates Plangman, ex-wife of Jay Bernard Plangman, gives birth to a daughter, Mary Patricia Plangman, in Fort Worth, Texas. The artists couple had divorced just ten days before their daughter's birth. | ||||||
| 1928/06/00 | With her mother and step-father, Patricia makes a trip to Endless Caverns in New Market, Virginia, where she develops an interest in Native American Indian culture. | Life | Endless Caverns, New Market | New Market | |||
| 1938/00/00 | "When I was seventeen, in Texas, I met briefly a very spoiled boy who was very much like Bruno, completely dissolute ... completely worthless, and he was the genesis of Bruno." PH | Author | Strangers on a Train (book) | Fort Worth, TX | Texas | ||
| 1938/00/00 | Highsmith family lives at 1-7 Bank St, Greenwich Village | Home | Bank Street | New York City | |||
| 1947/12/22 | Today is a great day, I have written the Murder, the raison d'etre of the novel ... something happened today, I feel I have grown older, completely adult ... completely satisfied, very happy. I don't want to marry. I have my good friends ... and girls? PH | Author | Strangers on a Train (book) | ||||
| 1948/02/00 | Patricia Highsmith meets New York's literary celebrity, Truman Capote, at a book launch. Capote tells Highsmith that she should stay at Yaddo, a refuge for writers with 'unconventional inclinations'. | Author | Strangers on a Train (book) | ||||
| 1948/05/10 | Patricia Highsmith arrives at Yaddo, an artist retreat in upstate New York where she will find its director, Elizabeth Ames, "a strange, creepy sort of woman, silent and sinister like Mrs Danvers in Rebecca." | Author | Strangers on a Train (book) | Yaddo, artists community | Saratoga Springs, NY | ||
| 1948/05/12 | At Yaddo, Patricia Highsmith challenges Flannery O'Connor, Chester Himes and Marc Brandel to consume 10 Martinis and Manhattans. Highsmith will end up with a 48 hour hangover. | Life | Yaddo, artists community | Saratoga Springs, NY | Martini | ||
| 1948/06/00 | Patricia Highsmith writes a rough draft of "Strangers on a Train" during a two month stay at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York. | Author | Strangers on a Train (book) | Yaddo, artists community | Saratoga Springs, NY | ||
| 1949/06/00 | Mary Highsmith and Marc Brandel see Patricia Highsmith off from Pier 90 in NYC as she sails for England. Sharing a cabin with three women, Patricia sails in "cattle class" and eats in the cafeteria. | Passenger | RMS QUEEN MARY | Long Beach | |||
| 1950/03/17 | In her small NYC apartment, Patricia Highsmith host a launch party for her book "Strangers on a Train". Highsmith received a $200 advance for the book. | Author | Strangers on a Train (book) | ||||
| 1955/00/00 | Patricia Highsmith's "The Talented Mr Ripley" is published by Coward-McCann. | Author | The Talented Mr Ripley | ||||
| 1968/02/09 | "Where is Ginnie - without whom The Price of Salt would never have been written?" Highsmith's diary. Ginnie had died two years earlier due to alcoholism. | Author | |||||
| 1970/06/00 | Patricia Highsmith's "Ripley Under Ground" is published in the United States by Doubleday and in the United Kingdom by William Heinemann. | Author | Ripley Under Ground (book) | ||||
| 1995/02/04 | American author Patricia Highsmith dies from aplastic anemia and lung cancer at Carita hospital in Locarno, Ticino, Switzerland. | ||||||
| 1995/03/00 | Patricia Highsmith wills her estate, worth an estimated $3 million, and any future royalties to the Yaddo colony in New York State. | Benefactor | Yaddo, artists community | Saratoga Springs, NY |
3 Creative Works by Patricia Highsmith »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Strangers on a Train (book) | Author | Novel | 1950/03/17 |
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| The Talented Mr Ripley | Author | Novel | 1955/00/00 |
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| Ripley Under Ground (book) | Author | Novel | 1970/06/00 |
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