Jennie (41 page)
Authors: Douglas Preston
Premack, David, and Premack, Ann James.
The Mind of an Ape
. New York: Norton, 1983.
Raven, Henry C. “Meshie: The Child of a Chimpanzee,”
Natural History
, vol. 32, 1932.
_______. “Further Adventures of Meshie,”
Natural History
, vol. 33, 1933.
Rosen, S. I.
Introduction to the Primates: Living and Fossil
. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
Temerlin. Maurice.
Lucy: Growing Up Human
. Palo Alto, Calif.: Science and Behavior Books, 1972.
Terrace, Herbert S.
Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language
. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
I owe a great debt to my agents, Tom Wallace and Matthew Snyder. I would like to thank my editor, Bob Wyatt, for his excellent work. I am deeply indebted to Mary G. Smith of the National Geographic Society for her enthusiastic support and excellent advice. I would particularly like to express my great appreciation to Dr. Douglas Schwartz, President of the School of American Research, for his support. I thank Stuart Woods and Lincoln Child for their helpful comments, and I am grateful for the editorial suggestions of the No Poets Society of Santa Fe. And I thank my father, Jerome Preston, Jr., for his very helpful advice, and my grandfather, Jerome Preston, Sr., for his great support.
I would like to thank Nina Root, Chairwoman of the Department of Library Services at the American Museum of Natural History, for allowing me access to the Raven papers and films. I would also like to thank the late Dr. Harold Shapiro of the American Museum for sharing with me his vivid reminiscences of Henry Raven and the chimpanzee called Meshie.
Finally, I want to thank my wife, Christine, for all her support.
The fictional characters in this novel are not based on real people and any resemblance to such is purely coincidental. As for the real people and organizations who appear by name in this novel, most of what is written about them is not true. Proxmire did not, for
obvious reasons, award a Golden Fleece to the Jennie project. Walter Sullivan did not write an article about Jennie. Teddy Kennedy did not meet Jennie. Nor did the Boston
Globe
, the Boston
Herald-Traveler, Esquire
magazine,
Psychology Today
magazine, or any other magazine or newspaper report on Jennie. Jennie did not appear on the Ed Sullivan show. I apologize for any negative opinions expressed by fictional characters about real people. The reader will be able to separate fact from fiction in these instances.
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