ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Roberta Ritz and Aaron Cohen toiled mightily to provide critical research. I am deeply grateful to them both.

Gratitude to Michael Pietsch, my superb editor John Parsley, my superb agent David Vigliano, Malin von Euler-Hogan, my many interviewees—especially Earline Franklin, Brenda Corbett, and Sabrina Owens—as well as Dick Alen and Alan Elliott.

Much love to my family—Roberta, Alison, Jessica, Charlotte, the Nins, James, Isaac, Henry, Jim, Esther, Elizabeth, and all nieces and nephews.

Much love to my dear friends Alan Eisenstock, Harry Weinger, Herb Powell, and everyone in the Tuesday-morning crew.

Thanks to David Freeland, whose work with Ruth Bowen greatly deepened my understanding of her complex and brilliant personality.

Thank you, Jesus.