It would not have been possible without the help of my friends:
John Ciardi, who praised and scolded me through the last two years of writing;
The late John Cheever, who urged me to begin and encouraged me through the first draft when I was his student at the Iowa Writers Workshop;
Eleanora Walker Tevis and her late husband, Walter Tevis, who directed me to an outstanding agent;
Molly Friedrich, my marvelous agent, who sent Berlin Wild to a dynamic editor;
Nan Graham, my wonderful editor; and all the other superlative Vikings;
and at Northern Kentucky University, Professors Doris Brett and Margery Rouse; President Leon E. Boothe; Provost Lyle Gray; my assistant Becky Williams;
and the National Endowment for the Arts
E.W.