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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First and largest thanks go to John Sampas for inviting us to undertake this project and for his steadfast faith and support. We would also like to thank Joyce Johnson, Ronna C. Johnson, Sterling Lord, David Orr, Dawn Ward, and John Shen-Sampas for their help and kindness. Special thanks go to our editor, Paul Slovak, for his enthusiasm for the project, for his clear-sighted wisdom, and for having all the answers. Many thanks also to Isaac Gewirtz, curator of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library, for his graciousness and insight, and to his colleagues Stephen Crook, Declan Kiely, and Philip Milito. For their many kindnesses we would also like to thank David Amram and Audrey Sprenger. Thanks to Hilary Holladay, director of the Jack and Stella Kerouac School of American Studies at UMass Lowell, and to Melissa Pennell, chair of the English Department at UMass Lowell.
Howard Cunnell would like to acknowledge the assistance of the British Association for American Studies for granting me a Founders’ Award to travel to New York in the spring of 2006. Thanks to Alan Stepney, Matthew Loukes, Jim MacAirt, and everyone at Karma Divers for putting the light on in my house. Thanks to Jackie and Donald and to my family: my mum Gillian, my brother Mark, still on the road after twenty years, and my inspirational and beautiful daughters Jesse, Lily, and Daisy. Special thanks go to Jeremy Cole and Frank and Rosemary Andoh for keeping me off the construction site this winter. Most important, I’d like to thank my wife, Adjoa. Like everything else, this is for her.
Penny Vlagopoulos would like to thank Ann Douglas for her expert advice and eminent Beat wisdom. Special thanks to Rachel Adams, Robert O’Meally, and Maura Spiegel for their invaluable teaching and inspiration, and to Baz Dreisinger, Mike Johnson, and Nicole Rizzuto for their assistance and encouragement. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to my parents, Marika and Triphon, and my brother Pete for their endless