(The acknowledgments for "Our Choice" run to four single-spaced pages of tiny type).
I will see a mentor thanked in the acknowledgments for his support, his faith, his in-law apartment.
She grasped her mug a bit tighter as she tried to deflect a question about his inclusion in the acknowledgments for "My Hollywood".
"My greatest debt [is] to my wife, Alison Summers," he writes in the acknowledgments, for her "clear literary intelligence and flawless dramatic instinct".
The acknowledgments for William Boyd's 16th novel, Sweet Caress, may be unique in that they probably consist entirely of people he has never met and who are now dead.
Clinton's omission aroused the enmity of powerful friends of Feinman's at the Washington Post, and journalists began covering the slight, their suspicions roused by Clinton's explanation that she had forgone names in the acknowledgments for fear of leaving someone out.
His wife asked, "What if the donor's widow demands visitation rights with the hand?" In the acknowledgments for "The Fourth Hand," Mr. Irving says, "Every novel I've written has begun with a 'What if.... ' " In this particular case, he was obsessed by his wife's curious question, and stayed awake all night, working on it as an idea for a novel.
But Scott's close family was anything but, and engaged Peter Cartor-Ruck to sue Huntford for libel by implication".I had thanked Peter Scott in the acknowledgments for allowing me to use his archives," Huntford explains, "and he claimed that this implied he agreed with the opinions held about his father in the body of the text.
He is cheerfully conscious of the largeness of his central argument, described as "anthropocentrism run amok" by Jonathan Bennett, his philosophy professor at Cambridge half a century ago, who is thanked in the Acknowledgments for his "help and support" over the years.
"I got one letter that said, 'I fear for Scott's feet of clay'". But Scott's close family was anything but, and engaged Peter Cartor-Ruck to sue Huntford for libel by implication".I had thanked Peter Scott in the acknowledgments for allowing me to use his archives," Huntford explains, "and he claimed that this implied he agreed with the opinions held about his father in the body of the text.
