by Peter Golden
Comments by early readers of the manuscript were invaluable, beginning with the incisive suggestions of Marlene Adelstein. The responses of Kimberley Cetron, Beth Brinser, Nancy Burke, Colleen Reynolds, Howard Dickson, Howard Sperber, and Kathie Bennett kept me going when I felt lost in history’s maze.
Others have also been of immeasurable assistance: my brother-in-law, Eric Francis; Maria Buhl at the Guilderland Public Library; Susan Novotny, owner of the Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza and Market Block Books; my friends Tracy Richard and Bruce Davis, Carol and Joe Siracusa, Ellen and Jeff Lewis, David Saltzman, and James Howard Kunstler, who were always available to make me laugh and remind me why I’d wanted to be a writer in the first place. I’d also like to send a heartfelt thanks to all of the salespeople I met as I visited bookstores, and to Kathy L. Murphy and her Pulpwood Queens. Their love of—and dedication to—the written word remind an author that, even in the age of the nanosecond, books are important.
I’ve spent much of my career looking up things in grand libraries and dusty archives in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. I was often hunting for photographs, and now, thanks to Facebook, I do some of that hunting without leaving my office. These groups have been particularly helpful: Memories of Living in South Orange, NJ or Maplewood, NJ; Columbia High School Alumni; Gruning’s Ice Cream; I Miss Don’s; Vintage New Jersey; Newark, NJ Memories; Raised in Miami Beach; Old Images of New York; Paris Photo; and America in the ’60’s. I also owe a debt of gratitude to my Facebook friends, who have followed my postings on my research trips, and whose comments and questions frequently helped me clarify where I needed to focus my attention.
In Wherever There Is Light I have taken more than a few liberties with history, and the real people you meet in these pages have been transformed into fictional characters. To perform this alchemy, I am indebted to a long list of books. Here is a selection, which is by no means complete: From Swastika to Jim Crow: Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb; The Reaction of Negro Publications and Organizations to German Anti-Semitism by Lunabelle Wedlock; Nazis in Newark by Warren Grover; Gangster #2: Longy Zwillman, the Man Who Invented Organized Crime by Mark Stuart; Swing City: Newark Nightlife, 1920-1950 by Barbara J. Kukla; Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960 by Ross Wetzsteon; The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues by John Strausbaugh (who on page 207 cited the description of Café Society as “The Wrong Place for the Right People.”); Dorothea Lange by Linda Gordon; Margaret Bourke-White by Vicki Goldberg; Lee Miller: A Life by Carolyn Burke; Robert Doisneau by Jean Claude Gautrand; Henri Cartier-Bresson by Clemént Chéroux; Street Photography by Clive Scott; Exiled in Paris by James Campbell; Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949 by Anthony Beevor and Artemis Cooper; Paris Noir by Tyler Stovall; A Hungry Heart by Gordon Parks; Paris Journal 1944-1955 by Janet Flanner; The Secret Life of the Seine by Mort Rosenblum; Wild Bill Donovan by Douglas Waller (The announcement at the Polo Grounds paging Wild Bill after the attack on Pearl Harbor was quoted from Dave Anderson, “The Day Colonel Donovan Was Paged,” New York Times, 12/1/91.); The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson; Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose; The African-American Soldier by Lt. Col. [Ret.] Michael Lee Lanning; and The Invisible Solder: The Experience of the Black Soldier, World War II, compiled and edited by Mary Penick Motley.
Finally, I’d like to thank the two people who fill the center of my life: my son, Ben, who never fails to inform, impress, and cheer me; and my wife, Annis, reader, fellow adventurer, humorist, and the best friend a writer could have.
PETER GOLDEN is an award-winning journalist, biographer, historian, and author of the novel Comeback Love. He lives outside Albany, New York, with his wife and son. Wherever There Is Light is his second novel.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Golden, Peter.
Wherever there is light : a novel / Peter Golden.
pages; cm
I. Title.
PS3607.O4525W48 2015
813’.6—dc23
2015011899
ISBN 978-1-4767-0558-3
ISBN 978-1-4767-0561-3 (ebook)