Patricia Highsmith: her diaries and notebooks, 1941-1995

1921-1940: The Early Years

1941-1950: Early Life in New York, and Different Ways of Writing

1951-1962: Living Between the United States and Europe

1963-1966: England, or The Attempt to Settle Down

1967-1980: Return to France

1981-1995: Twilight Years in Switzerland

Afterword by Joan Schenkar: Pat Highsmith's After-School Education: The International Daisy Chain

Acknowledgments

A Time Line of Highsmith's Life and Works

Sample of Highsmith's Foreign- Language Notes

Note on the Journals' Composition.