The author's acknowledgments end with this loving coda: "Finally, I want to acknowledge the deep debt I owe in this and everything else I've ever written to the work of the late Jack Kirby, the King of Comics".
The "art wife" is the long-suffering soul who brings up the rear in the author's acknowledgments.
Vann's dedication remains – "For My Father, James Edwin Vann, 1940-1980" – but it is now left to the author's acknowledgments at the end to remove any ambiguity over the fact that his father killed himself.
That position seems tricky to justify due to the author's own acknowledgment that we know little about the translator(s) and we can't even be sure that the text in question is a translation from an Indic original since in most cases we lack the source texts.
Eligible meta-analyses, including their primary studies, were reviewed by the first investigator (ED) including disclosure statements, full texts and tables, author's affiliation, acknowledgments, contributors and references, and all online journal supplements.
I want to display his actual ability by running his author's note and acknowledgments unedited, beyond correcting punctuation, spelling and grammar.
Knight scowls through the partition glass at a point somewhere over the author's shoulder, refusing eye contact or acknowledgment.
In "Sabbath's Theater," the Jewish mother of the dissolute puppeteer Mickey Sabbath advises the nihilistic satyr to kill himself; she is at once a gleeful travesty of the proverbial Jewish mother and a wry acknowledgment of the author's own failure to fulfill her dull and decent expectations.
"Basil Street Blues" begins with the frank acknowledgment that the author's literary life has been shaped by trying to get as far away as possible from his dreadful, fascinating relatives: "My career as a biographer probably arose from my need to escape from family involvements and immerse myself in other people's lives," he concedes.
"When a student I am teaching steals words and ideas from an author without acknowledgment, I feel cheated," said Mr Stearns.
