Body, Remember: A Memoir

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author would like to thank the PEN Writers Fund and the Authors League Fund for financial support; the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, the MacDowell Colony, the Ragdale Foundation, Villa Montalvo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, for residencies that provided the time and care needed to write this book. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Helene Aylon for initiallistening ; Jocelyn Lieu for early reading; Monica Wood for procedural suggestions; and Sue Standing for the Swahili proverb. The support, knowledge, and perspectives of others who live with disabilities have added much to this book: Gene Chelberg, who listened to countless passages over the phone; Victoria Ann-Lewis, Katinka Neuhof, and Susan Nussbaum, who have been blessings; and Marilyn Golden, who has been for many years the right person at the right time. I am proud to call these leading writers and minds of the disability-rights movement my friends. Thanks cannot do justice to the generous and wise editorial insight of Sarah Schulman, whose honesty and wisdom illuminated the first draft of this book; and Anne Finger, fellow Acknowledgments traveler, writer, and friend, whose perceptive reading of the second draft pushed me even further. Much appreciation to Jed Mattes for his belief in my work even before this book entered anyone's mind; Fred Morris for more than attending to my numerous phone calls; Kevin Bentley, with whom the idea for this book originated; Alex Swenson for considerate attention; and Carole DeSanti for having the forethought to publish this, and for her brilliant, sensitive editing. This book could not have been written without Chuck Madansky, who guided me through the years when I remem, bered; my parents, brave as they are; and most of all, Kevin Wolff, who put up with my extended absences, emotional and physical, while this book was written-our relationship grew as the book did. 224 LIVING OUT Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies Joan Larkin and David Bergman GENERAL EDITORS The Other Mother: A Lesbian's Fight for Her Daughter Nancy Abrams An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin Gad Beck Surviving Madness: A Therapist's Own Story Betty Berzon You're Not from Around Here, Are You? A Lesbian in Smal~Town America Louise A. Blum Just Married: Gay Marriage and the Expansion ofCivil Rights Kevin Bourassa and Joe Varnell Two Novels: Development and Two Selves Bryher The Hurry-Up Song: A Memoir of Losing My Brother Clifford Chase In My Father's Arms: A True Story of Incest Walter A. de Milly III Midlife Queer: Autobiography ofa Decade, 1971-1981 Martin Duberman Body, Remember: A Memoir Kenny Fries Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies Patrick E. Horrigan The End of Being Known: A Memoir Michael Klein Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me Jaime Manrique Body Blows: Six Performances Tim Miller Cleopatra's Wedding Present: Travels through Syria Robert Tewdwr Moss Taboo Boyer Rickel Secret Places: My Life in New York and New Guinea Tobias Schneebaum WildMan Tobias Schneebaum Outbound: Finding a Man, Sailing an Ocean William Storandt ...