Heroes of the Frontier

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you first to Jenny Jackson, calm soul, sensitive reader and blessedly relentless champion of this book. Thank you to Sonny Mehta, Andy Hughes, Paul Bogaards, Emma Dries and all at Knopf. Thank you Em-J Staples, constant friend, tenacious editor and proud Illinoisian. Thank you Andrew, Luke, Sarah and all the unwavering advocates at the Wylie Agency. Thank you to Cressida Leyshon and Deborah Treisman, for their faith in, and astute editing of, this book’s first excerpted incarnation. Thank you Alison and Katya, heroes and Homerites. Thank you careful readers Nyuol Tong, Peter Ferry, Christian Keifer, Curtis Sittenfeld, Sally Willcox, Clara Sankey, Tish Scola, Tom Barbash, Ayelet Waldman, Carrie Clements and Jesse Nathan. Thank you patient musicians Thao Nguyen, Alexi Glickman and Jon Walters. Thank you Terry Wit, Deb Klein and Kim Jaime. Thank you philosopher-dentists Tim Sheehan, Larry Blank and Raymond Katz. Thank you Alaska for persisting. Thank you V, A and B for existing.