Acknowledgments

For this fifth edition, I would like to thank all those students who generously contributed their essays for use in this book. They are from St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin, Texas. They are: Paige Anderson, Anna Booth, Olivia Bowness, Hannah Bray, Allie Calcote, Hector Cantu, Clarisse Chiang, Ellie Claman, Leah Claman, Sienna Del Conte, Virginia Harrell, Lily Hersch, Haley Justiz, Nathan Lietzke, Elizabeth Long, Owen McWilliams, Georgia Northway, Grace Northway, Ava Nykaza, and Christian Zhao. Special thanks to my friend and colleague Marsha Russell for facilitating the St. Andrew’s essays.