Patricia Highsmith's lacerating diaries and notebooks . . . will be seen as one of the great twentieth-century artistic self-portraits."" - Frances Wilson, New York Review of Books ""Provides stunning access to the mind of a notoriously secretive author."" - Keziah Weir, Vanity Fair ""Pat Highsmith's astonishing candor in the witness stand of her personal notebooks . . . is like nothing else in confessional literature."" - Joan Schenkar, author of The Talented Miss Highsmith.