Oprah (79 page)

The Harris Poll
,
#6, Jan. 14, 2008; John McCormick, “First Oprah, Next Gayle King,”
Swamp
(www.weblogs.baltimoresun.com), Dec. 12, 2007; “How He Did It,”
Newsweek,
Nov. 5, 2008; Caroline Kennedy, “A President Like My Father,”
New York Times,
Jan. 27, 2008; Joan Walsh, “Don’t Call Oprah a ‘Traitor,’ ”
www.Salon.com
, Feb. 4, 2008; “The Secret Behind the Secret,”
www.oprah.com
, Feb. 6, 2008; Edward McClellan, “More Than 125,000 Witness History in Chicago,”
www.Salon.com
, Nov. 26, 2008; “Madonna, Oprah, Other Celebrities React to Obama’s Win,” AP, Nov. 5, 2008; Craig Garthwaite and Timothy J. Moore, “The Role of Celebrity Endorsements in Politics: Oprah, Obama, and the 2008 Democratic Primary,” unpublished, Sept. 2008; John Carlucci, “Winfrey on Politics: I Did My Part for Change,” AP, Sept. 14, 2009.

TV/DVDS/AUDIO/OTHER:
“Remembering Ted Kennedy: Vicki Kennedy’s First TV Interview,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
Nov. 25, 2009;
The Oprah Winfrey Show 20th Anniversary Collection
(DVD set); “Return of the King,”
The Boondocks
(viewed at
www.vidilife.com
); “All American Tragedy,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
Nov. 3, 2006; “Oprah Fridays Live: Mike Tyson Returns, Plus Evander Holyfield,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
Oct. 16, 2009; “Truth in America,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
Oct. 12, 2006; “Oprah’s Town Hall with Bill O’Reilly,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
Oct. 27, 2006; Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alma and Joseph Gildenhorn Talk, Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C., Feb. 27, 2007; Oprah Winfrey call in to
The Ed Lover Show,
WWPR-FM, Nov. 4, 2008 (audio heard at
www.power1051fm.com
); “Will Smith and Tina Fey,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
Nov. 6, 2008; Oprah speech, Columbia, S.C., Dec. 9, 2007.

INTERVIEWS:
Correspondence with Mary Ann Gilbert, ProQuest, Sept. 14, 2009; Marianne Means, Feb. 9, 2007; Katharine Carr Esters, Aug. 1, 2007; Senator Robert Dole, May 23, 2008; correspondence with Eileen Wood, Sept. 19, 2009; Christopher Addison, Nov. 20, 2007; Trudie Munson, 2007; correspondence with Patrick Crowe, June 3, 2008; confidential source, Aug. 10, 2007; confidential source, Oct. 26, 2006; Vernon Winfrey, Apr. 24, 2008; Luvenia Harrison Butler, Apr. 24, 2008; confidential source, June 23, 2008; Alice Walker, Oct. 10, 2008.

A
FTERWORD

ARTICLES:
Alessandra Stanley, “The Fine Art of Quitting While She’s Ahead,”
New York Times,
Nov. 20, 2009; Gail Collins, “Putting the Fond in Farewell,”
New York Times,
Nov. 21, 2009; Joe Flint and Meg James, “Afternoons Without Oprah,”
Los Angeles Times,
Nov. 21, 2009; Julia Viatullo-Martin, “What Oprah’s Departure Means for the Windy City,”
Wall Street Journal,
Nov. 28, 2009; Nikki Finke, “The End of ‘Oprah’ as We Know Her,”
www.deadline.com/hollywood
, Nov. 5, 2009; Daniel Frankel, “Oprah’s Network Sets Yet Another Launch Date,”
www.thewrap.com
, Nov. 20, 2009; Nikki Finke, “Oprah Promises Cable Show ‘Smaller and Different,’ ”
www.deadline.com/hollywood
, Nov. 20, 2009; Rick Kogan, “City of 1000 Stars: Should Chicago Be Defined by Its Celebrities?”
Chicago Tribune,
Nov. 29, 2009; Phil Rosenthal, “Say It Ain’t So, O,”
Chicago Tribune,
Nov. 6, 2009; “Why Is She Ending the Show? Daley Blames the Media,”
Chicago Sun-Times,
Nov. 19, 2009; Patricia Shipp, “Oprah’s Booze and Drug Binges,”
National Enquirer,
Nov. 9, 2009; “Late Show Top Ten,”
www.newsmax.com/jokes
, Nov. 23, 2009; Bill Gorman, “ ‘Christmas Special at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special’ Draws ABC’s 2nd-Biggest Audience in the Hour This Season,”
tvbythenumbers.com
, Dec. 14, 2009; Claire Atkinson, “Maria Grasso and Nina Wass Exit Cable Channel Before Launch,”
Broadcasting and Cable,
Aug. 25, 2009; Ken Auletta, “Why Oprah Needs Cable,”
www.newyorker.com
, Nov. 20, 2009; Pat Embry, “ ‘Oprah Winfrey’s Father’ Says Her Success Is No Surprise,”
Nashville Banner,
Jan. 20, 1986.

TV:
“Oprah’s Fridays Live,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
aired Nov. 20, 2009; “Oprah’s Season 24 Kickoff Party,”
The Oprah Winfrey Show,
aired Sept. 10, 2009.

INTERVIEW:
Confidential source, Jan. 2, 2008.

Abt, Vicki, and Leonard Mustazza.
Coming After Oprah: Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Show.
Bowling Green, Oh.: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1997.

Adler, Bill, ed.
The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey.
Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1997.

Almond, Steve.
(Not That You Asked).
New York: Random House, 2007.

Angelou, Maya.
Letter to My Daughter.
New York: Random House, 2008.

Black, Cathie.
Basic Black.
New York: Crown, 2007.

Bly, Nellie.
Oprah! Up Close and Down Home.
New York: Zebra Books, 1993.

Bonvillain, Keifer.
Ruthless.
Atlanta: Keifer Enterprises, 2007.

Burrell, Paul.
A Royal Duty.
New York: Putnam, 2003.

Crowe, Patrick H.
Oprah for President.
Self-published, 2005.

Davis, Natalie Zemon.
Slaves on Screen.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000.

Dougherty, Jack.
More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Elliot, Jeffrey M., ed.
Conversations with Maya Angelou.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989.

Esters, Katharine Carr.
Jay Bird Creek.
Kosciusko, Miss.: Solid Earth LLC, 2005.

Farr, Cecilia Konchar.
Reading Oprah.
Albany, N.Y.: SUNY Press, 2005.

Frey, James.
A Million Little Pieces.
New York: Anchor, 2003.

Frumkin, Peter.
Strategic Giving: The Art and Science of Philanthropy.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Funderburg, Lise, and Jennifer S. Altman. (Foreword by Oprah Winfrey.)
The Color Purple: A Memory Book of the Broadway Musical.
New York: Carroll and Graf, 2006.

Gamson, Joshua.
Freaks Talk Back.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Garson, Helen S.
Oprah Winfrey: A Biography.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Books, 2004.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.
Finding Oprah’s Roots.
New York: Crown, 2007.

Gillespie, Marcia Ann, Rosa Johnson Butler, and Richard A. Long. (Foreword by Oprah Winfrey.)
Maya Angelou: A Glorious Celebration.
New York: Doubleday, 2008.

Graham, Stedman.
Build Your Own Life Brand.
New York: Free Press, 2001.

———.
Diversity: Leaders Not Labels.
New York: Free Press, 2006.

———.
Move Without the Ball.
New York: Fireside, 2004.

———.
Teens Can Make It Happen.
New York: Fireside, 2000.

———.
Who Are You?
Carlsbad, Calif.: Hay House, 2005.

———.
You Can Make It Happen.
New York: Fireside, 1998.

Graham, Stedman, Lisa Delpy Neirotti, and Joe Jeff Goldblatt.
The Ultimate Guide to Sport Event Management and Marketing.
Chicago: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995.

———.
The Ultimate Guide to Sports Marketing
(2nd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001.

Greene, Bob, and Oprah Winfrey.
A Journal of Daily Renewal: The Companion to Make the Connection.
New York: Hyperion, 1996

———.
Make the Connection.
New York: Hyperion, 1996.

Griffin, Kathy.
Official Book Club Selection: A Memoir According to Kathy Griffin.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2009.

Harris, Jennifer, and Elwood Watson, eds.
The Oprah Phenomenon.
Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2007.

Illouz, Eva.
Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.

Irwin, Jecquin D.
My Life After Oprah.
Self-published, 2006 (Kindle ed.).

Jalloh, Alusine, and Toyin Fabola, eds.
Black Business and Economic Power.
Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2002.

Jones, Quincy.
Q: The Autobiography of Quincy Jones.
New York: Harlem Moon, 2001.

Kaminer, Wendy.
I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional.
New York: Vintage Books, 1993.

King, Norman.
Everybody Loves Oprah.
New York: William Morrow and Co., 1987.

Kogan, Rick.
America’s Mom: The Life, Lessons, and Legacy of Ann Landers.
New York: William Morrow, 2003.

Krohn, Katherine.
Oprah Winfrey.
Minneapolis: 21st Century Books, 2002.

Kurtz, Howard.
Hot Air: All Talk All the Time.
New York: Basic Books, 1997.

Lawrence, Ken.
The World According to Oprah.
Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2005.

Leamer, Lawrence.
Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2005.

Live Your Best Life: A Treasury of Wisdom, Wit, Advice, Interviews, and Inspiration from O, The Oprah Magazine.
Birmingham, Ala.: Oxmoor House, 2005.

Lowe, Janet.
Oprah Winfrey Speaks.
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1998.

Lyman, Howard F., with Glen Merzer.
Mad Cowboy.
New York: Touchstone, 1998.

Mair, George.
Oprah Winfrey: The Real Story.
New York: Birch Lane Press, 1994.

Marberry, Craig.
Cuttin’ Up: Wit and Wisdom from Black Barbershops.
New York: Doubleday, 2005.

Marshall, P. David.
Celebrity and Power.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Mathabane, Mark.
Kaffir Boy in America.
New York: Free Press, 1990.

McDonald, Katrina Bell.
Embracing Sisterhood.
New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.

McDowell, Josh, and Dave Sterrett.
“O” God: A Dialogue on Truth and Oprah’s Spirituality.
Los Angeles: WND Books, 2009.

Natkin, Paul, and Stephen Green.
To Oprah with Love.
Beverly Hills, Calif.: New Millennium Press, 2002.

Nelson, Marcia Z.
The Gospel According to Oprah.
Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2005.

Nicholson, Louis P. (Introduction by Coretta Scott King.)
Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer.
Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Inc., 1994.

Noden, Merrell.
People Profiles: Oprah Winfrey.
New York: Time Inc., 1999.

O’s Big Book of Happiness: The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine.
Birmingham, Ala.: Oxmoor House, 2008.

O’s Guide to Life: The Best of O, The Oprah Magazine.
Birmingham, Ala.: Oxmoor House, 2007.

Olesker, Michael.
Michael Olesker’s Baltimore.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

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Tonight at Six.
Baltimore: Apprentice House, 2008.

Oppenheimer, Jerry.
Front Row.
New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2005.

Peck, Janice.
The Age of Oprah.
Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2008.

Roberts, Gene, and Hank Klibanoff.
The Race Beat.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Rooney, Kathleen.
Reading with Oprah
(2nd ed.). Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2008.

Shattuc, Jane M.
The Talking Cure.
New York: Routledge, 1997.

Sloan, Bill.
I Watched a Wild Hog Eat My Baby.
Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2001.

Smith-Shomade, Beretta E.
Shaded Lives: African-American Women and Television.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

Staten, Vince.
Do Bald Men Get Half-Price Haircuts?
New York: Touchstone, 2001.

Steele, Carrington.
Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid.
Self-published, 2008.

Steinberg, Neil.
The Alphabet of Modern Annoyances.
New York: Doubleday, 1996.

Tillis, James “Quick,” as told to J. Engleman Price.
Thinking Big.
Chicago: The LPG Group, 2000.

Tolle, Eckhart.
A New Earth.
New York: Plume, 2005.

Waldron, Robert.
Oprah!
New York: St. Martin’s, 1987.

Walker, Alice.
The Same River Twice.
New York: Scribner, 1996.

Walker, Andre. (Foreword by Oprah Winfrey.)
Andre Talks Hair!
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Walker, Margaret.
Jubilee.
New York: Mariner Books, 1999 (originally published 1966).

White, Evelyn C.
Alice Walker.
New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 2004.

White, Wendel A.
Small Towns, Black Lives.
Oceanville, N.J.: The Noyes Museum of Art, 2003.

Wilson, Melba.
Crossing the Boundary: Black Women Survive Incest.
Seattle: Seal Press, 1994.

Winfrey, Oprah.
The Best of Oprah’s What I Know for Sure.
Supplement to
O, the Oprah Magazine,
undated.

———.
Journey to Beloved.
New York: Hyperion, 1998.

Winfrey, Shakeeta.
The Other Winfrey: Life in the Shadow of O.
Decatur, Ga.: Marketing Communications Group, 2007.

Wolffe, Richard.
Renegade: The Making of a President.
New York: Crown, 2009.

A
BOOK ABOUT
someone as complex and fascinating as Oprah Winfrey could not have a better home than Random House, Inc., and the Crown Publishing Group. The support of Peter Olson, former CEO, and Jenny Frost, former president of Crown, to present a full, comprehensive biography of one of the most powerful public figures of our time gave me the opportunity to write about the American dream with all its rags and riches, ravages and rewards.

Throughout four years of research and reporting I was guided—superbly—by the exacting voice of my editor Peter Gethers and assisted at every turn by his extraordinary assistant Christina Malach and the supremely talented editor Claudia Herr. Under the leadership of Markus Dohle, CEO of Random House, Crown’s president Maya Mavjee, publisher Tina Constable, and marketing director Philip Patrick, I began to live the dream of all authors: a fabulous publishing experience, which included the wonderful organizational skills of Amy Boorstein, the artistic eye of Mary Choteborsky, the copyediting genius of Jenna Dolan, David Tran’s sophisticated cover design, and the silken talents of David Drake, head of publicity, in conjunction with Marina Ein, Jeff Ingram, and Rebecca Kelley of Ein Communications. In addition, I was blessed during the lawyering process with outstanding counsel from Kathy Trager and Matthew Martin.

I’m grateful to all of the Crown Publishing Group, most particularly Robert Siek, production editorial; Linnea Knollmueller, production; Barbara Sturman, design; Amanda D’Acierno, publisher of audio; Jill Flaxman, sales marketing; Linda Kaplan, subrights; and Jacob Bronstein, who introduced me to the twenty-first-century wonders of Twitter and Facebook.

I owe immense thanks to my longtime agent, Wayne S. Kabak, who has held my hand through many books, and to Larry Kirshbaum, who joined us in this publishing venture.

The research for this book began with my assistant Stephanie K. Eller, who organized 2,932 files on the life of Oprah Winfrey, divided
into names, dates, and subjects. In addition, Stephanie pored over the 990 tax returns of Oprah’s various foundations to design the financial graphs in
Chapter 18
. She spent days fact-checking every chapter and compiling the documentation for the end notes. Along the way we were assisted by excellent research and reporting from Liz Rich, Leon Wagener, Carolyn Hardnett Robinson, Monika Blackwell, Alexander Hilhorst, Shilpa Nadhan, Wendy Lyons Sunshine, and Patti Pancoe.

Most of the sources in this book are named with the exception of past and present Harpo employees, who could speak only on condition of absolute confidentiality. I appreciate the trust they put in me.

Journalists, as always, were exceedingly generous, and I’m grateful to all of them, especially Margaret Engel, director of the Alicia Patterson Foundation; her twin Alison Engel, director of University Communications, University of Southern California; Linda Cashdan, who walked me through every chapter on the C & O Canal; and the late John Mashek, who did not live long enough to celebrate what he called “The Continuing Saga of St. Oprah.”

In alphabetical order I thank the following for all they did for this book and/or its author: Christopher Addison, Kurt Anderson, Michael Anderson, Jeanette Angell, Alexandra Armstrong, Joe Armstrong, Sheryl Harris Atkinson, Lissa August, Laura Aye, Daniel Bagdade, Barry Baird, William F. Baker, Bob Barnes, Ysaye M. Barnwell, Alexa Bartel, Jewette Battles, Andy Behrman, Phoebe Beasley, Kathy Berlin, Ellen Bennett, Jenna Bett, Rob Birkhead, Alexandra Mayes Birnbaum, Sylvia Watts Blann, Mervin Block, Myrna Blyth, Anne Borchardt, David and Amanda Bowker, Richard Brase, Richard Brenneman, Michael Brooks, Gordon El Greco Brown, Beverly Burke, Bonnie Burlbaw, Deborah Bush, E. Faye Butler, Paul Burrell, Kenneth Burrows, David Bushman, Dale Buss, Luvenia Harrison Butler, Maria Calcagni, William Chaput at the Lotos Club, Trace Chapman, Larry Carpenter, Kathryn Carrick, Peter Cherukuri, Chris Clark, Steve Clark, Winnie Clark, Elizabeth Clauhsen, Patsy Cline, Peter Colasante, Judy Colteryahn, David Patrick Columbia, Mike Conway, Randolph Cook, Krysten Coppoletta, Paul Costello, Margo Cozell, Thomas Craft, Todd Cranford, Lynn Crawford, Candy Miles-Crocker, Nancy Cronk, David Crossland, Page Crossland, Patrick Crowe, Renee Crown, Barbara
Dale, Mike Dalton, Peggy Datillo, Gwen Davis, Joseph Davis, Virginia Davis, Spider Dean, Tatiana de Fidler, Charles DeFanti, Steve Dennis, Sally Denton, Paul Dickson, Grace Diekhaus, Maria di Martini, Diane Dimond, Barbara Dixon, Sen. Robert Dole, Pier Dominguez, Phil Donahue, Todd Doughty, Kathleen Drew, Helen and Richard Dudman, Robert Duffy, Bill East, Daniel Edwards, Bonnie Eldon, Gary Elion, Katharine Carr Esters, Don Everett, Penny Farthing, Nancy Fax, David Fechheimer, Robert Feder, Carol Felsenthal, Kathleen Fennell, Hilda Ford, Badi Foster, Michael Fox, Drew Friedman, Rick Frishman, Tony Frost, Peter Frumkin, Harry G. Fulmer, Peggy Furth, Keri L. Gaither, Tony and Marsha Gallo, Elaine Ganick, Ray Garcia, Patricia A. Garrett-Oluade, Ann Gerber, Robin Gerber, Mary Ann Gilbert, Mary Gilliat, Michelle Gillion, Jean and Tom Gilpin, Mishelle Gilson, Vivian and Bob Glick, Bonnie Goldstein, Alex Goode, Nina Goodman, Sarah Gorman, Rachel Grady, Diedre Stoelze Graves, Don and Judy Green, Nancy Green, Kevin Grogan, Michael Gross, Patricia Gurne, Barbara L. Hamm, Joy Handler, Joyce Saenz Harris, Judith L. Harris, Stacy Harris, Anna Harrison, Fruzsina Harsanyi, Darlene Hayes, Andrea Haynes, J. C. Hayward, James Henderson, Suzanne Herz, Stephen Hess, Joyce Daniel Hill, Michael Hill, Dale Lee Hinz, Roger Hitts, Robert Holm, Gary Holt, Jay Houston, Glenn Horowitz, Sandy Horwitt, Margo Howard, Beth Howse, Charlotte Huff, Bobbie Huffmister, Bob Hughes, Janis Ian, Gail Ifshin, Marty Ingels, Mark Itkin, Paula K. Jacobs, Jeremy Jacobs, Beverly Jackson, Tracey Jackson, James Jenkins, Ken Jennings, Fran Johns, Keith Johnson, Peter Johnston, Doug Joiner, Bob Jones, Tim Jones, Erica Jong, Carol Joynt, David Jozwiak, Andre Julian, Blair Kamin, Susan Karns, Beverly Keel, John Keller, Susie Kelly, Karen Kennedy, Kathy Kiely, Dorothy H. Kiser, Rick Kogan, Arnold Koonin, Jesse Kornbluth, Ed Kosowski, Bill Kovach, Alex Kucsynski, Jeanine Kunz, Ris La Coste, Melissa Lakey, Lynne Lamberg, Norma and Roger Langley, Kitty Lansdale, Janine Latus, Diane Laughlin, Bob Leffler, A. J. Lehter, Pat and Randy Lewis, Beatrice Liebenberg, Ellen Lightman, Lisa Lucke, Mike Luckovich, Howard Lyman, Sharon Malone, Mary Jo Manning, Cecily Marcus, Alice Masemer, Darlene Mathis, Jane McClary, Jerry McCoy, Katrina Bell McDonald, David McFadden, M.D., Marvin McIntyre, Pat
McNees, Grace McQuade, Kevin McShane, Marianne Means, Sandi Mendelson, Caroline Michel, Zoe Mikva, Frank Miller, Marc E. Miller, Mark Crispan Miller, Richard Mineards, Rachel Mirsky, Dan E. Moldea, Joanna Molloy, John Moran, James McGrath Morris, Susan Morrison, Barbara and David Morowitz, Dan Moore, Paul Moore, Luther T. Munford, Trudie Munson, Alanna Nash, Tracy Noble, Jimmy Norton, Janette Nunez, Jackie Oakes, Patricia O’Brien, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Mike Olesker, Jerry Oppenheimer, Patty O’Toole, Patty Outlaw, Marc Pachter and the Washington Biography Group, Margaret Pagan, Jack Panczak, Brooks Parker, Bob Parr, Patrice Patton-Price, Topher Payne, Scott Peacock, Pamela Peeke, M.D., Alexandra Penney, JoAnn Pinkerton, Diane M. Praet, Suzy Prudden, Paxton Quigley, Sugar Rautbord, Katie Rawls, Sonny Rawls, Bernice Johnson Reagon, Cheryl Reed, Judith Regan, Dr. Frank M. Reid, Bonnie Remsberg, Bev Reppert, Harvey Resnick, M.D., Barry Ribock, Carol Ribock, Allen Rice, Jewell Robinson, Patsy Rogers, Richard Redpants Rogers, Carl Rollyson, Louisa Romano, Paula Rome, Susan Rome, Chris Rose, George Rush, Daniel Ruth, Colleen Ryan, Deborah Caulfield Ryback, Robert Rynasiewicz, Blair Sabol, Jeff Samuels, Conrad Sanford, Bob Sector, Richard W. Schott, Pat Shakow, Adam Shapiro, Amy Shapiro, Ron Shapiro, Claudia Shear, Riki Sheehan, Barbara Shellhorn, Cynthia Connor Shelton, Anne Boone Simanski, Larry Singer, Cameron Smith, Esther Smith, Lisa Smith, Liz Smith, Sharon Hull Smith, Eileen Solomon, Nancy Solinski, Brenda Billips Square, Julie Johnson Staples, Neil Steinberg, Linda Reynolds Stern, Ann Stock, Nancy Stoddart, John B. Straw, Gloria Steinem, Nancy Harvey Steorts, Andrew Stephen, Allen J. Streiker, Kimba Stroud, Michael Sullivan, Richard Swartz, Nan Talese, Deborah Tannen, Maureen Taylor, Rose Thomas, Patricia Thompson, Cynthia Todd, Sue Tolchin, Jeffrey Toobin, Darlene Tracy, Bob Turk, Rocky Twyman, James van Sweden, Ed Victor, Robert Waldron, Alice Walker, Patrick Walsh, Jeanette Walls, Mike Walter, Ellen Warren, Eddie Washington, Janet Wassom, Susan Weaving, Steve Weisman, Gregg A. Wilhelm, Armstrong Williams, Miyuki Williams, Dori Wilson, Vernon Winfrey, Judy Wise, Jeanette Witter, Eileen Wood, Barbara Wright, Irene Wurtzel, Catherine Wyler, Elliot Zinger, Jeremy and Gretchen Zucker, Bill Zwecker.

Thanks, also, to Sheila and Dobli Srinivasan and their pals at PGA West in La Quinta, who provided their warmth during the winter in addition to the California sun: Jim and Connie Alderson; Stephanie Arthur; Jon Caruana; Howard and Monique Culver; George and Geraldine Harmina; Jim and Gail Hawkins; Jim and Barbara Lambert; Bill and Sandi Phillips; Terry and Patricia Pracht; Debra Schwanke; Jesse and Ellen Sprecher; David and Lorraine Stearns.

My deepest thanks to my husband, Jonathan Zucker, who continues to make the sun shine.

January 27, 2010