ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am indebted to Judith Gurewich, publisher of Other Press, whose editing skills and unwavering commitment to this book nourished it throughout; and to Jim Campbell for his keen reader’s eye.

         

Quotes from Robert Lowell come from Ian Hamilton’s Robert Lowell: A Biography (New York: Random House, 1982). It is both a superb account of the poet’s life and a harrowing depiction of mania during the course of a lifetime and its effect on those who find themselves standing in its path.

Richard Ellmann’s classic biography James Joyce (New York: Oxford University Press, 1959) and Brenda Maddox’s excellent Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988) provided the essential outline of James and Nora Joyce’s troubled relationship with their daughter Lucia.