Acknowledgments

I want to thank my Beacon Press editor, Andy Hrycyna, for extraordinarily astute editing, as well as sympathetic support through the whole process. Also Wendy Strothman, director of Beacon Press, for her wise counsel. And Chris Kochansky, who was much more than a copy editor; her quiet suggestions showed a wonderful literary sensibility. Also Rick Balkin, my steadfast literary agent, who prodded me for years to do this and is therefore totally responsible for whatever calamities follow. And Roslyn Zinn, always my first and last reader.