by Beth Kephart
Great gratitude to my generous father, who helped make our trip to Berlin possible, and who keeps reminding me to live right now. Deepest thanks and love to my husband, Bill, who traveled with me to Berlin, who gave me room to cry, and who agreed to stand out in the rain at midnight, trying to capture that city with a camera’s eye. And forever love to our son, Jeremy, who was in London when we were in Berlin, making another city his own. Jeremy’s encouragement, intelligence, consistent kindness, and unwavering interest in the work that I do is bedrock. When I don’t think that I can see something through, he reminds me that I can.
SELECTED SOURCES
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The following magazine stories, films, and Web resources were critical to my research:
Berlin Wall Memorial
http://www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de/en/the-memorial-12.html (accessed 04/01/13)
Busting the Berlin Wall: Amazing Escape Stories
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2009/berlinwall/
interactive.html#/START (accessed 04/01/13)
Chronik Der Mauer
http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/index.php/de/Start/Detail/id/1453512/page/1 (accessed 04/01/13)
Dornberg, John. “Daring High-Wire Ride to Freedom.” Illustrated by Michael Dudash. Popular Mechanics, November 1983, 78–81, 119.
Newmuseum: Berlin Wall
http://www.newmuseum.org/berlinwall/riseandfall/trying.htm (accessed 04/01/13)
“Swoops Across Wall: Family Makes Daring Escape,” Berlin AP, The Spokesman-Review, July 30, 1965, 3.
Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall: History Channel Documentary, produced by ZDF Enterprises, 2009, A&E Television Networks.
The Story of the Berlin Wall by Thierry Noir
http://www.galerie-noir.de/ArchivesEnglish/walleng.html (accessed 04/01/13)
BETH KEPHART fell hard for Berlin when she traveled there in the summer of 2011. Behind the graffiti walls, in the new museums, in the artist studios, a story of another time was told—a story that she began to wholeheartedly pursue. Kephart is the award-winning author of more than fifteen books for both adults and young readers, including Undercover, You Are My Only, Small Damages, and Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir. Going Over is her first novel with Chronicle Books.