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Eastman Was Here

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by Alex Gilvarry


  Acknowledgments

  Thanks to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin and their wonderful librarians for access to the Norman Mailer archive. Thanks to the Norman Mailer Center for their active support. Thank you Gregory Curtis, J. Michael Lennon, Lawrence Schiller, and John Buffalo Mailer.

  Deepest thanks to my colleagues at Monmouth University, and to my research assistants, Colleen King and Daniel Murphy.

  The figures here are directly quoted from Gloria Emerson’s Winners and Losers, a book I am indebted to.

  Thanks to the National Book Foundation for their recognition and support in the 5 Under 35 program. Benjamin Samuel, Leslie Shipman, Colum McCann, and Amy Bloom, thank you.

  Thanks to the New York Society Library for their generous support in 2014.

  Thanks to my readers, Scott Cheshire, Bill Cheng, and my wife, Alexandra Kleeman.

  Thanks to my father, Peter Gilvarry, a veteran of the Vietnam War, who planted his stories in my life.

  Thank you to all at Viking: Patrick Nolan for keeping me in this business; Beena Kamlani for her editorial guidance; Matthew Klise, Sam Raim, Chris Smith, Lindsay Prevette, Lydia Hirt, Michelle Giuseffi, Kate Stark, Andrea Schulz, and Brian Tart.

  Most of all, Seth Fishman.

  ALEX GILVARRY is the author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, winner of the Hornblower Award for a First Book and Best New Voice 2012 by Bookspan, and selected by the New York Times as an Editor’s Choice. He is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Norman Mailer Center. His essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation and The Boston Globe and on NPR’s All Things Considered, and in many other publications. He lives in Staten Island, New York, and is a professor at Monmouth University, where he teaches fiction.

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