Full Fathom Five: A Daughter's Search

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments Besides the people named at the end of the book for their generous personal communications, I am grateful to the readers who reviewed my manuscript in various drafts, giving me cogent and helpful feedback to make it better : Elaine Reisenberg; John Bowdren; Tom Corwin; Frank Jeton; the late Jim DeRose; Ron Martini; and Elizabeth Moore. I also received valuable copyright advice from reference librarians Frank Wihbey of the University of Maine at Orono and Ginny Hopcroft of Bowdoin College. I’d like to thank those who helped me with research at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard : David Davenport, Richard Winslow, and the New Hampshire Chapter of Subvets of WWII. I’m grateful to oldtime radio collector David S. Siegel for giving me the miracle of my father’s voice from a 1943 CBS broadcast . And friends who supported me throughout the long years of writing and marketing this book are: Professors Kathy Ashley, Jacque Lynn Foltyn, Sara Shute, and Dave Boyer; authors Robin Lippincott, Sena Jeter Naslund, Peter Sasgen, and David Jones; AWON members Jeanine and Lorie Allen, Patty Wheeler, and Dixie Maurer-Clemons; neighbors Jock and Barbara McDonald, Joe and Delores Raymond, Bo Chesney and Liza Nichols; and my family, Win and Scheherazade Fowler and the late Alexander Fowler, plus my siblings, Jean Coe Cronk, Henry Coe, and Fred Wildebush. Full Fathom Five ...