Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers

Acknowledgments

xv Acknowledgments Iwould like to thank Jack Polidori and Eva Peterson, Joann Kobin, Jim Hicks, Mike Thelwell, Bruce Laurie and many other good friends who have read and supported this work in whole or part. Very special thanks to Julia Meyerson, brilliant and tireless editor of the Meredith Winter Press, and to its gracious and generous publisher. The work is dedicated to my late wife Anne Halley, who shared many of the experiences and the life recounted in this work. Several of these pieces have appeared over the past two years in The Massachusetts Review, Yiddish, and the JewDayo blog of Jewish Currents. We thank their editors for permission to reprint them. “This page intentionally left blank” ...