The Collector's Apprentice
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The undergraduate Columbia College did not accept women in 1922, although many of the graduate schools at Columbia University did, and Barnard doesn’t award doctorate degrees.
Neither Mondrian nor Klee was included in the academy show in Philadelphia in 1923. The economy in France was not stagnating in 1926. And the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not referred to as the FBI until 1935; in 1930 it was called the Bureau of Investigation, the BOI.
Acknowledgments
As is always the case, this book could not have been written without the help of many friends and colleagues, but special thanks are in order to the Ragdale Foundation and the Strnad Fellowship that supported my work there. I began this novel at Ragdale in 2014 and finished it in 2017 at the same little desk tucked under a window overlooking the prairie. It’s an enchanted place, and I have no doubt that its magic had a powerful effect on these pages.
Many thanks to my readers, whose patience and honesty is a priceless gift: Jan Brogan, Scott Fleishman, Gary Goshgarian, Jessica Keener, Vicki Konover, Maryanne O’Hara, and especially Dan Fleishman, who not only read and reread every chapter, but also brainstormed with me over too many dinners to count. Thanks also to my experts: Adam Gusdorff, Michael Segal, Richard Segal, and Ben Zimmern. And then extra, extra thanks to the two women who always have my back, Ann Colette and Amy Gash, without whom none of this would be possible.
B. A. Shapiro is the author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller The Art Forger. She has taught sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University and lives in Boston with her husband, Dan, and their dog, Sagan. Her website is www.bashapirobooks.com.
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© 2018 by B. A. Shapiro.
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This is a work of fiction. While, as in all fiction, the literary perceptions and insights are based on experience, all names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018010860
eISBN: 978-1-61620-885-1