Writer friends/family who have read and generously commented at length and very helpfully on the various revisions of The Fountain of St. James Court; or, Portrait of the Artist as an Old Woman include Julie Brickman, Pam Cox, Lynn Greenberg, Nancy Jensen, John Sims Jeter, Robin Lippincott, Karen Mann, Nancy Brooks Moore, Eleanor Morse, Elaine Orr, Lucinda Dixon Sullivan, David Stewart, Deborah Stewart, and Katy Yocom. I am grateful to each of you for bringing your expertise and encouragement to my work.
I also wish to thank friends old and new for their participation in the creative community that has buoyed me up: Eleanor Hutchens, Loretta Clark, Ralph Raby, Maureen Morehead, David Messer, Gerald Plain, Frank Richmond, David Sisk, Luke Wallin, Charles Entrekin, Frye Gaillard, Helena Kriel, Jody Lisberger, Daly Walker, Rob LaFreniere, Greg Ellis, Alan Naslund, John C. Morrison, Bernard Moore, Bill Campbell, Kay Callaghan, Nana Lampton, Pam Sexton, Kay Gill, Mary Rose Mattei, Elaine W. Hughes, Chervis Isom, Elizabeth Sulzby, Alice Gorman, Marilyn M. and James Rockefeller, Charles and Patricia Gaines, Phyllis and Jerry Rappaport, Suzette Henke and Jim Rooney, Annette Allen and Oz Wiggins, Kathleen and Terry Driskell, Rick and Corie Neumayer, Neela Vaswani and Holter Graham, and Kim and John Crum.
I am truly grateful for the support of University of Louisville president James Ramsey and provost Shirley Willihnganz, the late dean Blaine Hudson, and acting dean John Ferré, as well as my students and colleagues at U of L, where I have taught happily for nearly forty years; also that of Spalding University president Tori Murden McClure and provost Randy Strickland as well as former president Tom Oates who welcomed the creation of the M.F.A. in writing at Spalding some twelve years ago, and former president JoAnn Rooney; and to all the wonderful faculty and students of the brief-residency Spalding University Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program.
Most especially, I thank all the members of my family for their love and support: Flora, Ron, Lily, Ingrid, Hugo, Bubba, Charlotte, Amanda, Pete, Ella, Daniel, John, Derelene, Lisa, Gregg, Kristina, and Chase.
And for this book especially, I must thank all my friends and neighbors of St. James Court and Belgravia Court, who have done so much to maintain our special, diverse, and caring community in historic Old Louisville and to cause it to flourish. Meet you at the Fountain! Or at the St. James Art Fair, at the Holiday House Tour, at the Hidden Gardens Tour, in Central Park, during a stroll, or on some hospitable front porch!
—SENA JETER NASLUND
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
SENA JETER NASLUND is Distinguished Teaching Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of Louisville and program director of the Spalding University brief-residency MFA in Writing. A winner of the Harper Lee Award for Distinguished Writers, she is the author of eight previous works of fiction, which have been translated into eight languages and published in Australia and the United Kingdom, where her book Ahab’s Wife was a finalist for the Orange Prize. Those who’ve read her novel Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette will recognize the character of Élisabeth Vigée-Le Brun from that book. Naslund lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Adam & Eve
Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette
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Ahab’s Wife; or, The Star-Gazer
The Disobedience of Water
Sherlock in Love
The Animal Way to Love
Ice Skating at the North Pole
CREDITS
Cover photograph by David Stewart
COPYRIGHT
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