In the acknowledgments to "The Egyptologist," Phillips paid tribute to "Vivian Darkbloom," or Vladimir Nabokov in anagram.
In the acknowledgments to "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything," Lisi begins by thanking a mathematician from Columbia named Peter Woit.
The acknowledgments to "Deadlocked" end with this sentence: "My sincere gratitude to Stefan Diamante of Body Roxx for his Male Strippers 101 course".
In the acknowledgments to the second edition (2002), Nicholl mentions his father Michael, who had died the previous year, and "whose interest in the spy's mentality was a source of my own".
Weiner has no need for the Internet-blocking software used by many writers, among them Zadie Smith, who in the acknowledgments to "NW" offered thanks to the programs SelfControl and Freedom.
In the acknowledgments to her unsettling and irresistible book, "The Unfeathered Bird," Katrina van Grouw pauses in her listing of names to say, "I must assure readers that no birds were harmed during the making of this book".
In the acknowledgments to "Castles of Steel," he tells us that initially he "had intended 'Dreadnought' to include the war itself, but that book carried the story only up to the night Britain and Germany went to war".
In fact, if you look in the acknowledgments to my first book, I thank Ernst Mayr, who is happily still with us at age 97, for suggesting that I do that one before I do this one.
The acknowledgments to Grace Paley's BEGIN AGAIN: Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23) include thanks to a friend for "extracting many of the poems in this book from Grace Paley's notebooks".
Time's interviewer persuaded him that his younger years, as he writes in the acknowledgments to "Swimming Across," "had a major part in shaping who I became as an adult".
