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Authors: Nina Siegal

Acknowledgments

T
he following nonfiction books were useful sources for this novel:
Fame at Last: Who Was Who According to the New York Times Obituaries
by John Ball and Jill Jonnes,
True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World
by Anthony Haden-Guest,
Dark City: The Lost World of Film Noir
by Eddie Muller,
Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies
by James Sanders, and
The Perfect Murder: A Study in Detection
by David Lehman. So was the graffiti movie,
Style Wars
, directed by Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver.

This novel would never have gotten past chapter 1 without the early encouragement of Steven Wright, Leigh Newman, John Cassidy, and Lucinda Rosenfeld. My thanks to my aunt and uncle, Marian and Jack Krauskopf, who lent me their house in Chatham in 2001, where I wrote the first pages. I was fortunate, too, for the enthusiastic feedback of my Brooklyn writing group: Leigh, Lilly Kuwashima, Tim Brien, Amy Brill, Joseph Holmes, and Kim Sevcik.

At Iowa, Dina Hardy, Nam Lee, Matthew Vollmer, Nic Brown, Josh Rolnick, Austin Bunn, Amy Belk, and Leslie Jamison were my best critics. I would also like to thank Bliss Broyard for reading early chapters; Rob Sussman, for fact-checking the final draft with me in L.A.; and Jeremy Hobbs for shooting my author photo
graph. My residency at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire gave me time to polish the final draft.

For help with the graffiti sections of the novel, I’m indebted to Nicer, Bio, and rrBG183 of Tats Cru; writers Mosco, Kez, and Nato; and Hugo Martinez of the Martinez Gallery, who provided inspiration and helped me with details along the way.

I want to acknowledge all my professors at Iowa: James McPherson, Adam Haslett, Ethan Canin, and Lan Samantha Chang, but especially Margot Livesey and James Hynes, who both went well beyond the call of duty. I really can’t thank either of them enough.

I owe my greatest debt to my agent, Nina Collins, for her early and undying support for this book and to my editor, Peggy Hageman, who immediately made me feel as if we’d found the right home at HarperCollins.

Finally, I want to acknowledge my brother and sister-in-law, David and Rebecca, and my parents, Marta and Frederick, who have supported this project and my writing in too many ways to count.

About the Author

Writer and journalist N
INA
S
IEGAL
was born in New York City, and grew up in Manhattan and on Long Island. She received her BA from Cornell University and her MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has written for such publications as
The Progressive
, the
Wall Street Journal
,
Art
+
Auction
, and the
New York Times
. She was a finalist for the James Jones First Novel Fellowship in 2005, and received the Jack Leggett Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship to work on her next novel, which is set in Amsterdam.

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Credits

Cover design by Robin Bilardello

Cover photograph by Emmanuel Faure/Getty Images

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

A LITTLE TROUBLE WITH THE FACTS
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ePub edition January 2008 ISBN 9780061748493

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