Wizard

by Marc Seifer

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  Other Works

  Handwriting & Brainwriting (collected works)

  Staretz Encounter (novel)

  Hail to the Chief (screenplay)

  The Steven Rosati Story (true-crime biography)

  Correspondence

  Alker, Henry, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, Calif.

  †Anderson, Leland, Denver, Colo.

  Basura, Nick, Los Angeles, Calif.

  *Bearden, Tom, Huntsville, Ala.

  ‡Bergstresser, Ralph, Phoenix, Ariz.

  Bromberg, Joan, Woburn, Mass.

  Burg, David, Lexington, Ky.

  Call, Terrence, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I.

  *Corum, James, Columbus, Ohio

  *Corum, Ken, Franconia, N.H.

  Clark, Peggy McKinnon, Shoreham, N.Y.

  †Czito, Nancy, Washington, D.C.

  Eaton, Tim, Industrial Light & Magic, San Rafael, Calif.

  Elswick, Steve, International Tesla Society, Colorado Springs, Colo.

  Feeley, Terrence, Johnston, R.I.

  ‡Gant, James, Washington, D.C.

  ‡Gertz, Elmer, Chicago, Calif.

  Gold, Harry, Tesla Coil Builders Association, Glens Falls, N.Y.

  *Golka, Robert, Colorado Springs, Colo.

  Grotz, Toby, Colorado Springs, Colo.

  Hessen, Robert, Stanford University, Calif.

  *Hardesty, James,
Ithaca, N.Y.

  †Jankovitch, M., Paris, France

  *Jovanovich, Branimir, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

  †*Jurow, Irving, Washington, D.C.

  Kasanovich, Nicholas, Tesla Memorial Society, Lackawanna, N.Y.

  Kline, Ronald, Cornel University, Ithaca, N.Y.

  Kramer, Jurgen, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, Calif.

  Krippner, Stanley, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, Calif.

  McCabe, Bob, Flint, Mich.

  McGinnis, J.W., Colorado Springs, Colo.

  *Marincic, Alexander, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

  *Markovitch, Michael, Brooklyn, N.Y.

  Neuschatz, Sanford, Shannock, R.I.

  Parry, F., Washington, D.C.

  *Possell, Jake, Colorado Springs, Colo.

  †Puharich, Andrija, Colorado Springs, Colo.

  *Ratzlaff, John, Milbrae, Calif.

  Romero, Sid, Salt Lake, Utah

  Seifer, Stanley, West Hempstead, N.Y.

  Seifer, Thelma, West Hempstead, N.Y.

  Shriftman, Elliott, Manhassett, N.Y.

  Smukler, Howard, Berkeley, Calif.

  ‡Terbo, William, New York, N.Y.

  Vagermeerch, Richard, University of Rhode Island

  ‡Viereck, Peter, Mt. Holyoke, Mass.

  *Vujovic, Ljubo, Brooklyn, N.Y.

  Walsh, J.T., Studio City, Calif.

  White, Debra, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, Calif.

  White, John, Cheshire, Conn.

  *Interviewed because of special knowledge about the subject.

  †Personally knew associates of Tesla.

  ‡Personally met with Tesla.

  NOTES

  Preface, pp. xiii-xvi

  1. Margaret Storm, Return of the Dove (Baltimore: M. Storm Productions, 1956).

  2. Nikola Tesla, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla (Williston, Vt.: Hart Brothers, 1982) [Originally published, 1919].

  Chapter 1: Heritage, pp. 1-4

  1. Nikola Tesla, “Zmai Ivan Ivanovich, the Chief Servian Poet of To-day.” In R. U. Johnson, ed., Songs of Liberty and Other Poems (New York: Century Company, 1897).

  2. Personal trip to Yugoslavia, 1986.

  3. Robert Lee Wolff, The Balkans in Our Time (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956).