I would first like to thank Carolyn P. Yoder for the idea for and commitment to this book. I’d also like to thank Robert Meeropol, Ethel Rosenberg’s son, for his time and for his vetting of the manuscript. I’d like to thank both him and his brother, Michael, for giving me permission to quote from the letters between their parents and for their consent to use some of their family photographs.
I owe a debt of gratitude to poet Matthew Lippman for reviewing the manuscript and inspiring me to find Ethel’s song, so to speak. Thanks go to others who have vetted the manuscript, including Shirley Vernick, Lisa Idzikowski, and Jenefred Davies. I must also thank my agent, Susan Schulman, for always believing in Ethel’s story.
Prison correspondence of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is reprinted with the permission of the copyright holders, © Michael and Robert Meeropol.