André Gide and the Second World War: A Novelist's Occupation

Acknowledgments

Numerous individuals and organizations supported the completion of this project, and they all have my most sincere thanks. The inspiration for this book grew out of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on “War and Memory: Postwar Representations of World War II and the Occupation in France” held at Harvard University . Seminar leader Susan Rubin Suleiman and my fellow seminar participants offered valuable advice and feedback in the early stages of this project. Financial support came in the form of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers, a University of South Florida International Travel Grant, numerous research and travel grants from the New College Faculty Development Fund, and the generous assistance of the New College Division of Humanities. Research for this book took me far afield. I wish to thank the librarians and staff of the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet and Fonds André Gide, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Public Record Office in Kew, England, the British Library, and the Harvard and Yale University Libraries. Above all, the entire staff of Sarasota’s Jane Bancroft Cook Library has my deepest gratitude. I am indebted to Catherine Gide, who graciously granted me permission to consult manuscripts from her personal collection as well as those held by the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet. I also thank Pierre Masson and Martine Sagaert, who generously sent research materials across the Atlantic. An earlier version of chapter four was published in André Gide’s Politics: Rebellion and Ambivalence, edited by Tom Conner, © Tom Conner. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the original publisher, Palgrave Macmillan. Further thanks go to the Bulletin des Amis d’André Gide and Francographies , which also published early versions of some material in this book. This project could not have come to fruition without the practical, scholarly, and emotional support of a host of friends and colleagues. I would ix Acknowledgments never have begun this book were it not for the advice and assistance of Suzanne Janney. I would never have completed it without the help of Helen Rees, who tirelessly read endless drafts, offering encouragement and unerring guidance. The international community of Gide scholars provided unprecedented career support at a critical juncture and I owe them all endless thanks. I am also grateful to Pat and Freddie Rees, who welcomed me to their home while I did research in London, to Geneviève and Pierre Masson, who provided a timely rescue during a French transit strike, and to the extended Vitet-Pellé clan, who have given me a home and family in France for the past quarter century. Additional thanks go to Christine Latrouitte Armstrong, the late Holly Barone, Maribeth Clark, Glenn Cuomo, Laszlo Deme, John Burt Foster, Pamela Genova, Maegan Henderson, Jennifer Herdt, Jason Jacobs, Andrew Jaffee, Ken Krauss, Hélène Lowe-Dupas, Claude Martin, John Moore, Brigitte Muller, Walter Putnam, Amy Reid, Marie-Claire Rohinsky, Naomi Segal, Liz Temkin, Michael Tilby, and Miriam L. Wallace. Many apologies to anyone I may have forgotten. Finally, I wish to thank my entire family, especially my daughter Mileva, who demonstrated patience beyond her years while I was writing. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS x ...