The manuscript of Winner’s Loss benefited from reviews by Carol Jackson, Lesley Mann, and Nelson Patterson. In researching the art department of Central Technical School, I was fortunate to have the assistance of CTS alumni Fernanda Pisani and Lorne Strachan as well as of art teacher Dustin Garnet and former Vice-Principal Robert Longworth. Thank you all.
I am grateful also to the fine people at Iguana Books. Greg Ioannou, Mary Ann Blair, and Jen Albert have been a pleasure to work with.
The painting on the cover, “Gesture” and Elizabeth by Gordon Davies, is reproduced by permission of the National Gallery. The subject of this portrait is Canadian sculptor Elizabeth Wyn Wood.