Foremost I thank my editor, Janne Blichert-Toft, for inviting me to write this memoir and her virtually instantaneous feedback and constructive counsel on ways to improve the manuscript. I suspect I’m not alone in finding Janne’s correspondence life-affirming. On more than one occasion I was able to turn a bad day around simply by re-reading one of her emails.

I thank Trevor Ireland, David Shuster, Peter Zeitler, and Peter Copeland for reviews of the complete manuscript, the latter of whom reminded me how much I’d learned about writing as I watched him assemble his Ph.D. thesis. Conservatively, I think about...

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