At The Breakers: A Novel

Acknowledgments

339 Acknowledgments I am grateful to the National Endowment for the Arts for crucial financial help in finishing this book. Thanks to the friends who read for me: early (Kim Edwards, Diane Freund, Bobbie Ann Mason, Gerald Stern, and Jane Gentry Vance); early and often (Jim Hall, Sue Richards, and Judy Young); along the way and during emergencies (Anne Bard, Helen Bartlett, John Schwartz, Cia White, and Cecilia Woloch). I also want to thank Joanne Frederick, Rebecca Howell, and Paula Merwin for their support and love. Thanks also to Geri Thoma, for her tenacity; to the very professional staff at the University Press of Kentucky, particularly Laura Sutton and Steve Wrinn; and to Richard Taylor, the grand facilitator. Also, to my large and multilayered family: thanks and thanks and thanks. ...