Edward F. Dragon has not lost his ability to inspire. I am very grateful to him for entrusting me with his story of The Creeks. Mike Solomon of the Ossorio Foundation gave me unflagging support in the preparation of this book, far beyond the responsibilities of any director. I am also indebted to the family of Adele and Albert Herter, in particular Caroline Herter, who were kind enough to share with me their intimate family memories as well as Albert Herter’s unpublished memoirs.
My deep appreciation also goes to Elena Prohaska, who took a leap of faith in sharing the story of her life with Evan Frankel with me. My thanks also go to Ernest Frankel, Andrew Sabin, Joan Cullman, Betty Marmon, and Harrie Ellen Schloss. Paul Brennan, Frank Newbold, Peter Hallock, Peggy Griffin, Rob Barnes, Rochelle Rosenberg, Ray Wesnofske, Mark Sene, and Charles Bullock, among many others, helped shape the Allan Schneider and real estate portions of this book. Clayton Morey, William Heppenheimer, William Hattrick, Dorothy and Sherburne Brown, Patricia Stewart, Patricia Murray Wood, Robert D. L. Gardiner, Judy Licht, Jerry Della Femina, Lona Rubenstein, Jen Rattiner, Fredric Mayer, Irving Markowitz, Bernard Zeldin, David Lee, Dan Rattiner, Nancy Hyden Woodward, Bridget LeRoy, and Mary and Richard Cummings, among many others, are also owed a great debt of gratitude for their myriad contributions.
My thanks as well to Stephen Lamont, Peter Ogden, and Nicole Hirsh at Little, Brown, and to Dorothy King and Diana Dayton at the East Hampton Library. As always, this would be impossible without my intrepid editorial assistant and researcher, Martha Trachtenberg.
No author could ask for better advice, guidance, and creative nourishment than I received from my agent, Richard Pine, and from my savvy editor at Little, Brown, Bill Phillips.
Steven Gaines
Wainscott, New York
1998
About the Author
Steven Gaines is the bestselling author of twelve books, including Philistines at the Hedgerow: Passion and Property in the Hamptons.
His journalism has appeared in Vanity Fair, the New York Observer, and New York magazine, where he was a contributing editor for twelve years.
Mr. Gaines is a cofounder and past vice-chairman of the Hamptons International Film Festival.
He lives in a small hamlet on the East End of Long Island.
Also by Steven Gaines
Obsession: The Lives and Times of Calvin Klein (with Sharon Churcher)
Simply Halston: The Untold Story
Heroes and Villains: The True Story of the Beach Boys
The Love You Make: An Insider’s Story of the Beatles (with Peter Brown)
Me, Alice: The Biography of Alice Cooper
Marjoe: The Biography of Evangelist Marjoe Gortner
The Club (novel)
Another Runner in the Night (novel)
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