Saints for All Occasions
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Thank you to Sara and Justin Pitman for indulging my medical inquiries. To Conor Yunits, who explained a lot about politics and helped me build a career path for John. To my cousin, the late Eileen Meade. To the Quinlan family: Henry, Regina, Anne Moran, Mary Jordan, and Mary and Jack McCaffrey. To Maryann Downing, for sharing her perspective on convent life, and to Scott Korb, for introducing us. To Meg Wolitzer, Mary Gordon, and Mary Beth Keane, for the last-minute words of wisdom. To Agatha Scaggiante. To Deanne Dunning. To Barry Moreno at Ellis Island, Yvonne Allen at the Cobh Museum in Cobh, Ireland, and Alicia St. Leger. Thanks to Noreen Kearney Dolan, Kate Sweeney Regan, and Kelly Coyle-Crivelli for the family recollections. And to Julianna Baggott and Joshua Wolf Shenk, for the image of Gilot having to rouse Picasso from his despair each morning, as depicted in Joshua’s book Powers of Two.
Lastly, I’m grateful to everyone at Knopf and Vintage, especially Christine Gillespie, Helen Tobin, Anna Dobben, Sara Eagle, Zakiya Harris, Maria Massey, Amy Ryan, Nicholas Latimer, Paul Bogaards, Anne-Lise Spitzer, Carol Carson, and Abby Weintraub. To Jenny Meyer and Sara Goewey at the Jenny Meyer Literary Agency. And to Dana Murphy and all the extraordinary women of the Book Group.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
J. Courtney Sullivan is the New York Times best-selling author of the novels Commencement, Maine, and The Engagements. Maine was named a Best Book of the Year by Time magazine and was a Washington Post Notable Book for 2011. The Engagements was one of People magazine’s Top Ten Books of 2013 and an Irish Times Best Book of the Year. Sullivan’s work has been translated into seventeen languages. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, New York magazine, Elle, Glamour, Allure, Real Simple, Lenny Letter, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among many others. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
www.jcourtneysullivan.com
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