I want to thank, first of all, Gloria Loomis, my long-standing agent and dearest friend, for her willingness to stand by me and help find a home for the memoir. And with the same measure and spirit, I want to thank Gloria’s colleague Julia Masnik.
Anne Stringfield read the memoir with a magnifying glass. She ordered the chronology and located places, people, and dates in a way that Sherlock Holmes could never have imagined. I am at once grateful and awed.
I am grateful to Karen Marta who patiently and wisely saw this memoir through from its conception to its completion.
There were several people who read the book in various stages of disarray and who nevertheless were kind enough to offer both encouragement and insights that were very helpful in its fruition. They are Diane Keaton, Wayne Koestenbaum, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Steve Martin, Tom McCarthy, Edward Mendelson, David Salle, and Iris Smyles.
I want to thank Angela Dilella, Joanna Goldberg, Anton Haugen, Jamie McPartland, and Rebecca Steever for their research and careful preparation of the manuscript. I never could have seen it through without their support.
No writer could wish for a more sympathetic and brilliant editor than Ira Silverberg.
About the Author
© EMMA MARIE JENKINS, AUGUST 2016
FREDERIC TUTEN grew up in the Bronx during the Great Depression. At fifteen, he dropped out of high school to become a painter, taking odd jobs and briefly attending the Art Students League of New York. He later traveled through Latin America, where he studied pre-Columbian art and Mexican mural painting.
While touring through South America, he wrote about Brazilian Cinema Novo and joined the circle of such filmmakers as Nelson Pereira dos Santos and Glauber Rocha. He taught film and literature at the Université Paris 8, acted in a short film by Alain Resnais, cowrote the cult film Possession, and conducted summer writing workshops with Paul Bowles in Tangiers.
Tuten has published five novels and a book of interrelated short stories. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction and was given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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