ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank the following people:

The gracious staff at the Tulane University Archives.

Cory McLaughlin, the author of Butterfly in the Typewriter, for his valuable research.

Joel Fletcher, for his insights about Kenny Toole and his Southern hospitality.

Our publisher Claiborne Hancock, his colleagues Jessica Case and Lauren Rosenthal, and the team at Pegasus Books.

Michael Szromba, for his unwavering encouragement.

Raonaid Ryn, for her keen literary instincts.

And lastly and most importantly, Helen Whitney, for most everything. She made this a better book.