A Conspiracy of Paper (53 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

T
HE ADVICE OF
numerous readers enriched and sharpened this novel, and I would like to thank Paul Budnitz, Mary Pat Dunleavey, Matthew Grimm, Sue Laizik, Michael Seidel, Al Silverman, Brian Stokes, and Chloe Wheatley for their fine criticism and attention. I would like to acknowledge in particular Laurie Gwen Shapiro for her advice, encouragement, and generosity of spirit; she has nurtured this project as if it were her own, and without her help this book might never have happened. I would like to thank Joseph Citarella, who provided me with an extraordinary wealth of information on eighteenth-century clothing. I am also indebted to Kelly Washburn and the Partnership for Jewish Life for their avowed support of Jewish fiction.

I owe a considerable debt to the Georgia State University Department of English, which not only introduced me to the field of eighteenth-century studies but also encouraged my work with sincere and bountiful enthusiasm. More recently, I thank the Department of English and Comparative Literature of Columbia University for many years of support, both financial and scholarly.

I cannot sufficiently acknowledge Liz Darhansoff and, indeed, everyone at the Darhansoff and Verrill agency, who believed in this project from Day One and labored long and hard on its behalf. My editor, Jon Karp, has wonderfully steered and fostered this novel, and I am grateful to him for his keen insight, good humor, and strong encouragement. I’d also like to thank Ann Godoff, Jean-Isabel McNutt, and Andy Carpenter of Random House.

Finally, for reasons that cannot, and need not, be enumerated here, I thank my wife, Claudia Stokes; my much-loved friend Godot Liss; and my family.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

D
AVID LISS
was born in 1966 and grew up in South Florida. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at Columbia University, where he is completing a dissertation on the intersection of the mid-eighteenth-century British novel with the contemporaneous emergence of the modern idea of personal finance. He has given numerous conference papers on his research and has also published on Henry James. He has received several awards for his work, including the Columbia University President’s Fellowship, an A.W. Mellon Research Fellowship, and the Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship. He also holds a Master of Arts degree from Georgia State University and a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University. He lives in New York City, and can be reached via E-mail at
www.davidliss.com
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Copyright © 2000 by David Liss

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Liss, David.
A conspiracy of paper / David Liss.
p.  cm.
I. Title.
PS3562.I7814C66     2000

813.54—dc21                                      99-20691

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