The first edition of this book was planned and shaped at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina.
Mark Turner gratefully acknowledges the subsequent support of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; the University of Maryland; and the Department of Cognitive Science, the Department of Linguistics, and the Center for Research in Language at the University of California, San Diego. Francis-Noël Thomas gratefully acknowledges the assistance of the University of Chicago Computing Organizations. The authors thank Wayne C. Booth, Robert E. Brown, Frederick Crews, Peter Dougherty, Jason Epstein, Jeanne Fahnestock, Beth Gianfagna, Peter Lang, and members of the Board of Princeton University Press for comments. We also thank the students—especially Jennifer Bacon and William FitzGerald—in Prose Style and in Classic Prose Style at the University of Maryland, who used this book in earlier drafts.
We thank Anne Savarese for suggesting that we undertake a second edition and for guiding the Studio to completion. We thank Arthur Evenchik, David Lee Rubin, and Vera Tobin for comments on the Studio.