ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The smart, generous and fascinatingly creative people who contributed their work to this project are our heroes. Thank you for your patience with all the e-mails, faxes and legal forms. But most of all, thanks for raising the bar. This book celebrates you.

To Amy Schell Owen, editor extraordinaire, we say thanks for your patience, advice and tremendous expertise from day one. We'd also like to thank Megan Patrick for recognizing the merit in our book proposal and Grace Ring for the beautiful design work. The team at HOW Books is terrific.

The following people also pitched in to help us with this project in unique and wonderful ways. To each of them, we owe a debt of gratitude.

 

Chris Adams

Jen Larkin Kuzler

Mark Allen

Lisa Langford

Patty Alvey

Erin Larsen

Warren Berger

Hilary Lee

José Bowen

Matthew Lindner

Anne Bev Branch

Suzanne Lucas

Richard Campos

Ben Malbon

JoEllyn Carrel

Dan Morrison

Meme Drumwright

Ignacio Oreamuno

Amy Feezor

Cathy Ormerod

Tim Gleason

Sandy Parkerson

Holly Grayson

Marina Pietracci

Jonas Greene

Maria Popova

Debbie Harvey

Rahul Pula

Karen Howle

Kim Sheehan

Mark Huslig

Greg Warden