Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation (38 page)

My great colleagues at the Ford Foundation have always urged me on in this writing, especially Alison Bernstein and Bill Duggan. My agent, Janis Vallely, comrade in the dharma, believed in me from our first meeting, which made everything possible. And deepest gratitude to my editor, Jane von Mehren, who gave me the unexpected blessing of enormous energies from her own soul to refine this book and reveal the story I wanted to tell.