Authors: Carol Wallace
Tags: #Fiction, #Historical, #Biographical, #Literary
Leaving Van Gogh (30 page)
A
cknowledgments
The writing of this book began several years ago while I was in graduate school, so I thank Lee Adair Lawrence for flattering me into going; Hilary Ballon and Anne Higonnet for their encouragement; Barbara Laux and Sue Roy for their company; and my family for their patience when I kept talking about Walter Benjamin.
As I wrote I had help from early readers and other boosters, notably Andrea Rounds, Alice van Straalen, Fred Bernstein, F. Paul Driscoll, Lisa Callahan, and Katherine Fuller.
After writing, selling. I owe gratitude to Lynn Seligman, as well as to Emma Sweeney for her enthusiasm and editorial acumen, and her colleagues Eva Talmadge and Justine Wenger.
Then publication, with remarkable solicitude and energy. Thanks to Cindy Spiegel and Julie Grau, first of all. Mike Mezzo and Hana Landes, Vincent La Scala and Susan M. S. Brown for shaping and refining the manuscript. Greg Mollica for the lovely cover, Carol Cunningham for the handsome interior, and Sally Marvin for helping introduce
Leaving Van Gogh
to the world.
And none of this would have been possible without Rick, who seemed to take for granted all along that it was a worthwhile enterprise.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
C
AROL
W
ALLACE
is the author of numerous books, including
The Official Preppy Handbook
, which she co-authored.
Leaving Van Gogh
is her first historical novel. A graduate of Princeton University, Wallace received an M.A. in art history from Columbia University in 2006. The research for her M.A. thesis provided the foundation for
Leaving Van Gogh
. She lives in New York.
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