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Copyright © 2017 by Sam Stephenson

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First edition, 2017

Several chapters in this book were originally published, in somewhat different form, in The Paris Review. A large portion of the Sonny Clark chapter was originally published, in somewhat different form, in Tin House.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following material: Excerpt from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Four: 1944–1947. Copyright © 1971 by Anaïs Nin. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stephenson, Sam, author.

Title: Gene Smith’s sink: a wide-angle view / Sam Stephenson.

Description: First edition. | New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016052191 | ISBN 9780374232153 (hardback) | ISBN 9781429944458 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Smith, W. Eugene, 1918–1978. | Smith, W. Eugene, 1918–1978—Correspondence. | Smith, W. Eugene, 1918–1978—Friends and associates. | Photojournalists—United States—Biography. | BISAC: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.

Classification: LCC TR140.S627 S74 2017 | DDC 770.92 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016052191

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