After Tupac & D Foster

by Jacqueline Woodson

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  As always, thanks, Nancy, for reading this and rereading this and re-rereading this until it became the story I was trying to tell. Thanks, Sara and Meredith and Charlotte, for all you do. And big, big thank you to Stephanie Grant—friend and writer extraordinaire—thanks for your amazing eye.

  Donald Douglas—thanks for helping me with the basketball stuff. Roman Woodson—thanks for the research.

  And all the others who know who they are—Juliet and Patti and Linda and Jill. And the rest of my big and crazy family—for dinner together every Sunday night and the words and phrases and craziness that sometimes make their way to the pages. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

  And of course, this novel would never have happened without the inspiration that was Tupac Shakur and the many talented musicians that came before, during and after him.