884 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 885 In particular, I thank David R. Godine and I’m more grateful than I can say for the dedica- A Miscellany of Special Lists Herman Graf, titans of the trade, for the years tion she brought to the task. And that a manu- of kinship we’ve shared. Two other giants in my script of nearly half-a-million words has been book, J. P. Leventhal and Paul Feldstein (now turned into a book of such graphic delight and Read in a Sitting • The Tale of Genji, Lady • A Bullet in the Ballet, Caryl my agent), have been the best of friends both visual allure is due to the consummate gifts and • Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Murasaki Shikibu[JT1], Brahms and S. J. Simon, personally and professionally. extraordinary devotion of Janet Vicario: Thank Ilene Beckerman, page62 page 575 page 92 Which brings me to Workman, publishers you, thank you, thank you. • On Growth and Form, • A Walk in the Woods, of the book you are holding. I am grateful to the Carolan and Peter Workman have been • The Uncommon Reader, D. W. Thompson, page 782 Bill Bryson, page 104 entire Workman team for its patience through stalwart friends to the Mustich family for many Alan Bennett, page 67 the many years of composition, and their pro- years. My appreciation for their generosity • Memorial, Ferdinando Camon, • War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy, • The Decline and Fall of Practically fessionalism in this last one, as the enormous and warmth extends far beyond the margins page 120 page 797 Everybody, Will Cuppy, page 190 manuscript made its way to press. Pride of of these pages or the dimensions of this proj- • A Month in the Country, • Kristin Lavransdatter, place goes to my editor, Margot Herrera, whose ect. I am glad Carolan can celebrate the occa- J. L. Carr, page 132 Sigrid Undset, page 817 • Cold Comfort Farm, forbearance through nearly a decade and a half sion of its completion with us, and I am deeply Stella Gibbons, page 313 • The Chemical History of a • Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, has been appreciated, as has her line-by-line sorry Peter has not lived to see 1,000 Books make Candle, Michael Faraday, Rebecca West, page 843 • Life Among the Savages, persistence in untangling convoluted think- its way into the world: Like the books he pub- page 264 Shirley Jackson, page 404 ing and knotty expression; equally persistent lished with such success, Peter was innovative, 12 Books to Read Before the lives and times of archy has been her unfailing good cheer in the face quirky, one-of-a-kind. His approach to books • The Little Virtues, Natalia • You’re 12 and mehitabel, Don Marquis, of authorial crankiness. I’m especially pleased I was the epitome of a passion that many of us Ginzburg, page 316 • Skellig, David Almond, page 16 page 526 got to work with Alison Humes—called in from share. He took pleasure in the traffic in books • The Third Man, Graham the bullpen like an editorial Mariano Rivera to and everything that fueled it: from an idea and Greene, page 335 • Tuck Everlasting, • At Swim-Two-Birds, Natalie Babbitt, page 37 Flann O’Brien, page 595 safeguard the game—whose acuity was bracing, the author who could deliver it through the • The All of It, Jeannette Haien, fortifying every passage she touched. Laurel design and art direction, from controlling the page 344 • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, • The Portable Dorothy Parker, Robinson provided precise and perspicacious costs of paper, printing, and binding to setting L. Frank Baum, page 56 page 615 • 84, Charing Cross Road, copy editing. the press runs, from the in-house sales con- Helene Hanff, page 350 • Matilda, Roald Dahl, page 193 • The Bogey Man, Publisher and editorial director Susan ferences with his merry band of reps to sales George Plimpton, page 629 Bolotin should run for office; the republic calls on key accounts. There is no part of the • Ill Met by Moonlight, W. Stanley • Harriet the Spy, Louise could use her good sense, sagacity, and prag- whole complicated equation that Peter did not Moss, page 570 Fitzhugh, page 280 • Pigs Have Wings, P. G. Wodehouse, page 864 matic effectiveness. I’d vote for her for any- embrace with energy, expertise, and exuber- • Within the Context of No Context, • The Wind in the Willows, thing. Dan Reynolds, Page Edmunds, David ance. His inspiration was endless, and relent- George W. S. Trow, page 807 Kenneth Grahame, page 328 Cities in Fact and Fiction Schiller, and James Wehrle have been ardent less: It let no detail go by. You could almost call • Candide, Voltaire, page 824 • The Mouse and His Child, and creative supporters of this project; I am his method an ethic, one built on the collabora- Russell Hoban, page 378 • Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, glad to have the benefit of their care, skill, and tion of good people, smart products, and, not page 120 A Long Climb, • From the Mixed-Up Files o ingenuity—likewise Lathea Williams and Moira least, a pride in commerce. But What a View f Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, • The Piano Shop on the Left Bank, Kerrigan. Quite simply, Peter knew better than any E. L. Konigsburg, page 452 Thad Carhart, page 128 Production of a book of this length and other publisher I’ve ever met how to make a • The Civil War, Shelby Foote, • The Power Broker, complexity is an enormous project, which book take on a life of its own—thereby enrich- page 286 • Anne of Green Gables, Robert A. Caro, page 130 Kim Daly has managed with grit and grace. ing the lives of everyone who touched it along • Les Misérables, Victor Hugo, L. M. Montgomery, page 564 Doug Wolff has adeptly arranged every ele- the way to the reader. He delighted in his page 394 • Abel’s Island, William Steig, • Rome and a Villa, Eleanor Clark, page 160 ment of the book’s manufacture, while Aaron books, and sharing that delight—whether it was • Zibaldone, Giacomo Leopardi, page 750 Clendening artfully researched and—abetted in Oh, Yuck! or The French Laundry Cookbook—was page 475 • The Great Good Thing, • Bleak House, Charles Dickens, by an expert photo department—summoned for him the ultimate joy of the work. No one page 220 • The Golden Notebook, Roderick Townley, page 802 hundreds of images across time, space, and ever walked out of Peter’s office without being Doris Lessing, page 477 • Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White, • The Death and Life of Great style to enliven our pages. Most especially: No handed a book to take home, and I regret that I American Cities, Jane Jacobs, • The Magic Mountain, page 845 project was ever better served by a typesetter can only imagine, but not witness, the joy with page 405 than this one has been by Barbara Peragine; which he would have passed along this one. Thomas Mann, page 521 LOL • Ulysses, James Joyce, page 422 • The Man Without Qualities, Robert Musil, page 578 • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the • Venice for Pleasure, J. G. Links, Galaxy, Douglas Adams, page 6 page 492 • In Search of Lost Time, Marcel Proust, page 644 • The Ascent of Rum Doodle, • Life: A User’s Manual, W. E. Bowman, page 90 Georges Perec, page 623 1000 Books_Index 1st jvbp.indd 884-885 4/26/18 3:28 PM 886 A MISCELLANY OF SPECIAL LISTS A MISCELLANY OF SPECIAL LISTS 887 • American Pastoral, Philip Roth, • The Portrait of a Lady, • Swallows and Amazons, • Autobiography of John Stuart • I Was a Stranger, Sir John • The Underground Railroad, page 677 Henry James (read by Arthur Ransome, page 660 Mill, page 548 Winthrop Hackett, page 343 Colson Whitehead, page 849 • The Stones of Venice, Juliet Stevenson), page 409 • The Little Prince, Antoine de • Speak, Memory, Vladimir • Dispatches, Michael Herr, John Ruskin, page 684 • Dubliners, James Joyce Saint-Exupéry, page 693 Nabokov, page 580 page 369 Soul Food • The Bonfire of the Vanities, (read by Frank McCourt • Twenty Thousand Leagues Under • Hunger of Memory, Richard • We Die Alone, David Howarth, • Meditations, Marcus Aurelius, Tom Wolfe, page 866 and others), page 420 the Sea, Jules Verne, page 821 Rodriguez, page 671 page 391 page 31 • Moby-Dick, Herman Melville • Little House in the Big Woods, • The Confessions, Jean-Jacques • The Face of Battle, John Keegan, • Journal of a Disappointed Man, A Garden of Verse (read by Frank Muller), Laura Ingalls Wilder, page 435 Rousseau, page 679 page 433 W. N. P. Barbellion, page 50 page 542 • The Flowers of Evil, Charles • Aké: The Years of Childhood, • Kaputt, Curzio Malaparte, • The Diary of a Country Priest, Baudelaire, page 55 • Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov Off-Beat Escapes Wole Soyinka, page 742 page 515 Georges Bernanos, page 72 (read by Jeremy Irons), • The Complete Poems, 1927-1979, • Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich, • The Autobiography of Malcolm • Goodbye, Darkness, William • The Long Loneliness, page 579 Elizabeth Bishop, page 80 page 51 X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley, Manchester, page 519 Dorothy Day, page 31? • The Little Red Chairs, • The Poems of Catullus, page 139 • No Picnic on Mount Kenya, page 876 • War in Val d’Orcia, Iris Origo, • Four Quartets, T. S. Eliot, Edna O’Brien (read by • Sailing Alone Around the Room, Felice Benuzzi, page 68 page 605 page 249? Juliet Stevenson), page 595 Novel Pleasures Billy Collins, page 166 • The Outermost House, • The Walls Came Tumbling Down, • Time and the Art of Living, • The Golden Compass, Philip • Poems, Emily Dickinson, Henry Beston, page 74 • Half of a Yellow Sun, Henriette Roosenburg, Robert Grudin, page 339 Pullman (read by the author page 222? • The Wilder Shores of Love, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, page 673 • The Seven Storey Mountain, and a full cast), page 647 page 8? • The Poetry of Robert Frost, Lesley Blanch, page 83 • The Killer Angels, Michael Thomas Merton, p.