First and foremost I want to thank my late wife Margaret for suggesting the idea, as opposed to my writing another long biography. I am grateful, too, to Lynn Nesbit for bringing Alone to a safe harbor. I want to thank Robert Weil for his personal enthusiasm and optimism, Marie Pantojan for her care and support, and Dawn Lafferty for all her hard work and support on the home front.
Mike Hill’s help was, as always, invaluable, and I am also indebted to Peter Metcalfe for his assiduous research in the United Kingdom, without which I could never have written the book, to Rebecca Karamehmedovic for her photo research, and to Pat Holl for her work in procuring permissions.
As always, any errors are mine alone.