The Talented Miss Highsmith by Joan Schenkar

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Also by Joan Schenkar
    Truly Wilde: The Unsettling Story of Dolly Wilde, Oscar’s Unusual Niece
    Signs of Life: Six Comedies of Menace

Acknowledgments
    To the many people around the world who offered their time, their minds, and their materials, I owe too much to tell here. This book is the down payment on my very great debt to them.
    The iridescent conversation and radiant spirit of the late Theodora Keogh, my dearest friend, sustained me through much of this work. Don Coates, Pat’s closest living relative and an invaluable resource, opened his archives, his family history, and his Texas connections without reserve. Kate Kingsley Skattebol did the same, placing her considerable intelligence at my service