I’m grateful for the generous support and ideally-timed encouragement that came from the American Library in Paris and the de Groot Foundation, the BC Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Robert B. Silvers Foundation.
Thank you to the staffs of the Bibliothèque historique de la ville de Paris, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Centre Pompidou, the University of British Columbia and Stanford University libraries, the Vancouver Public Library, and the New York Public Library. I’m indebted to Billy Kluver and Julie Martin’s work on Kiki and to Neil Baldwin’s on Man Ray. Thank you to the many friends, mentors, and students at UBC, NYU, USC, Stanford, and in Paris who helped to shape my understanding of the City of Light.
Eternal gratitude to Vanessa Agard-Jones, Daniela Bleichmar, Audrey Chapuis, JP Daughton, Dan Edelstein, Matt Fox-Amato, Karen Halttunen, Deb Harkness, Bertrand Hogg, Chris Friedrichs, Pico Iyer, the late Dominique Kalifa, Linda Lichter, Julie Martin, Patricia Mendjisky, Francis Naumann, Mark Roefler, Lucy Sante, Vanessa Schwartz, Jerrold Seigel, Ken Silver, Amanda and Zack Silverman, Nancy Troy, Artur Winiarski, and Tobias Wolff. And to Ayelet, Daylan, Eleanor, Jeremy, Jon, and Poppy.
Thank you to Laura Braude, Kate Fox-Amato, and Alice McCrum for reading and commenting on early versions of the manuscript.
Special thanks to Ingsu Liu, Meredith McGinnis, Gabrielle Nugent, Huneeya Siddiqui, and everyone at W. W. Norton; to Kate Craigie and everyone at Two Roads; to Kimberly Burns; and to Erin Files, Chelsey Heller, David Kuhn, Allison Warren, and everyone at Aevitas.
Amy Cherry and Becky Sweren: without you there would be no book.
Laura, Lucinda, and Eloise: without you there would be no point.