50 Essays: A Portable Anthology - Samuel Cohen 2017

Acknowledgments

Many thanks go to the instructors who helped shape this edition of 50 Essays: Mark Arnowitz, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Alva Balthazar, Rio Hondo College; William Carney, Cameron University; Clayton Couch, Haywood Community College; Darin Cozzens, Surry Community College; Tamera Davis, Northern Oklahoma College—Stillwater; Robert DeFrance, Long Beach City College; Denise Dumars, Long Beach City College; Erin Ergenbright, Portland Community College; Edward Fletcher, Savannah State University; Wanda Haynes, Manchester Community College; Danen Jobe, Pikes Peak Community College; Elizabeth Keefe, Gateway Community College; Sarah Kirk, University of Alaska Anchorage; Janet Krauss, Fairfield University; Carolyn Kremers, University of Alaska Fairbanks; William Lemon, Irvine Valley College; Maureen Lennon, Seneca College; Jeannine McDevit, Pennsylvania Highlands Community College; Lyle Morgan, Pittsburg State University; Suzanna Riordan, Baruch College; Amanda Ross, Central Washington University; Joanna Sit, City University of New York; Sarah Stanley, University of Alaska Fairbanks; Mike Walonen, Bethune-Cookman University; Anika Waltz-Cummings, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Sherrie Weller, Loyola University Chicago.

I would also like to thank the people at Bedford/St. Martin’s who made this book possible, particularly Joan Feinberg, Denise Wydra, Karen Henry, Steve Scipione, and Elizabeth Schaaf. I would especially like to recognize the work of John Sullivan and Karin Halbert, whose vision, experience, and support made the first and second editions possible; Amy Gershman, whose hard work, good ideas, and patience are responsible for the improvements in the third; the brilliant and indefatigable Alicia Young, who also edits Literature: The Human Experience and deserves combat pay for having to work with me so much; and Sherry Mooney for her strong ideas and stronger patience in her work with me on this edition. Thanks also to Jennifer Prince who ably assisted Sherry. I would also like to acknowledge the help of Pamela Lawson, who guided the book through production; Anne Sussman, for her careful copyediting; Eve Lehmann for clearing permissions; and Joy Fisher Williams for her marketing insights. I would like to thank the teachers from whom I was lucky to learn how to read and write, and teach. I would like to thank my Spring 2003 Writing I students at Baruch College, CUNY, who were taught with this book in its early stages and who had a great deal of unflinchingly honest advice for how to put it together, and the students I have had the pleasure to teach since then. I would like to thank the English Department at the University of Missouri for the job, the office, and the opportunity to work with great students, and my colleagues in Columbia, especially the graduate student employees in the department who have taught the book and taught me about how it works and about how hard they work. Most of all, I would like to thank Kristin Bowen for everything she’s taught me about textbooks and much more; our boys, Ben and Henry, who have grown up with this book and are now both much taller than it; and our newly adopted dog, Azalea, who has not replaced her predecessor but, like her, seems not to be bothered by the revising of textbooks as long as she can curl up at your feet while you’re doing it.