Notes and Acknowledgements

 

Thanks to Peter Wakayama and Ken Noma for meeting with me when I was first researching this novel, and similarly Dylan MacNeil and Chris Baker. Many thanks to my friends who read earlier drafts — Dan Diamond, Jacky Sawatzky, Glenn Buhr, and Catherine Hunter. To the people at Prairie Fire Magazine, live long and prosper.

I am grateful to the Manitoba Arts Council, the Winnipeg Arts Council, and the Canada Council for the Arts for their support during the writing of Mr. Jones. To the University of Winnipeg, my affection and gratitude.

Thank you Goose Lane Editions; you are the best. Thank you Heather Sangster. And I’m so very grateful to the gifted editor, Bethany Gibson, who rode through all the dust storms, corralling the strays. Any errors in these pages are mine alone.

 

An excerpt of Mr. Jones in different form appeared in Prairie Fire Magazine Vol. 30, No. 1.

 

These are some of the writers and their books that have helped me in writing Mr. Jones:

Roger Bowen. Innocence is not Enough: The Life and Death of Herbert Norman. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1986.

Ian Buruma. Inventing Japan: 1853-1964. New York: The Modern Library, 2004.

John Hersey. Hiroshima. New York: Knopf, 1946. (And my thanks to Steve Rothman, who made his 1997 background essay, “The Publication of ‘Hiroshima’ in The New Yorker,” available on the internet.)

William Manchester. American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964. Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1978.

Gary Marcuse and Reg Whitaker. Cold War Canada: The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Knowlton Nash. Kennedy and Diefenbaker: Fear and Loathing Across the Undefended Border. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.

Kim Philby. My Silent War: The Autobiography of a Spy. New York: The Modern Library, 1968, 2002.

Charles Taylor. Snow Job: Canada, the United States and Vietnam (1954 to 1973). Toronto: Anansi, 1974.