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Highsmith Gives $3M to Yaddo
Steven M. Zeitchik -- 2/23/98
Yaddo, the upstate New York artists' retreat that has hosted many authors, has announced that the late bestselling novelist Patricia Highsmith, who wrote her most popular work at Yaddo in 1948, bequeathed her $3-million estate to the place that nurtured her talents. It is the largest single gift in the community's history.
"Pat Highsmith felt that she had gained her identity as an artist at Yaddo, and she wished by her gift to provide the same opportunity for future generations of Yaddo guests," said Michael Sundell, president of Yaddo.

Highsmith wrote more than 20 works of fiction in her career. But it was the first one-Strangers on a Train, which she wrote at Yaddo-that introduced her to American audiences when it was adapted for the screen by Alfred Hitchcock.
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