Helen Keller Really Lived: A Novel

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I would like to thank the following persons, both the extant and the deceased, for their lore: Patricia Ackerman, Emmanuel David, Theresa Coleman Delp, Samuel Dean Delp, Gordon Delp, Sue and Warren Delp, Rochanya Generous, Patrick Greaney, Dragan Ilic, Louis C. Jones (whose “The Ghosts of New York: An Analytical Study,” JAF, V.57, 1944, inspired Revenant “File 1994”), Melanie Sheffield, Joan Sheffield, William Sheffield II and William Sheffield III. Last but not least, I would like to thank Jeffrey DeShell, whose wit and ways helped to conceive this book. I would also like to thank the National Endowment for the Arts and the University of Colorado. Grants from each helped to support the research and writing of Helen Keller Really Lived. Revenant “File 2010” appeared in Gargoyle (V.57, 2011) as “i live in a hole”; Revenant “File 1994” appeared in Denver Quarterly (V.47, no.3, 2013). ...