Acknowledgments

With special thanks to my sister- and brother-in-law, Mabel and Lloyd Houvenagle, for making my life so much more pleasant, and for driving me around Florida.

My thanks as well to Leone King; to Helen McKinney of the Library, Society of the Four Arts; and to Elyse Strickland of the Doubleday Bookshop, all of whom helped me with my Palm Beach background.