The Museum of Extraordinary Things(107)

To Nan Graham, my brilliant editor, and to Susan Moldow, my beloved publisher, who have both changed my writing and my life. I could not be more fortunate or more grateful.

Gratitude to Carolyn Reidy for her continuing support, which means so much to me.

Many thanks to Roz Lippel for helping me feel at home at Scribner.

To Suzanne Baboneau, publisher of Simon & Schuster UK, deep gratitude for championing my books in the UK, and for so much support, then and now.

Thank you to Whitney Frick for her sharp eye, attention to detail, and care taken in her reading of this novel. Thanks to Kara Watson for her kind help in readying the manuscript for publication.

Thank you to Susan Brown for her copyediting knowledge and insight.

Many thanks to Katherine Monaghan for her invaluable assistance before, after, and during publication. To Camille McDuffie, who has helped bring many of my books into the world, many thanks for her grace and good advice.

To Maggie Stern, for years of invaluable friendship.

To Tom Martin, for always being my first reader and the first person I turn to.

A most special thank-you to Ron Bernstein, dear friend and agent from the beginning, and to Amanda Urban, for her generous friendship and wise counsel.

Thank you to the Lyceum Agency.

To everyone at the Elaine Markson Agency, especially Gary Johnson, many thanks for many years of working together.

And to Elaine Markson, I offer my deepest gratitude and love. Words cannot express my thanks or begin to list all you have given me, as an agent and a friend. I would never have been here without you.

—Alice Hoffman





FURTHER READING



* * *





Further reading for those who wish to know more about the history explored in The Museum of Extraordinary Things.

Coney Island

Denson, Charles. Coney Island Lost and Found. Ten Speed Press, 2002.

Hartzman, Marc. American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History’s Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. Tarcher Penguin, 2006.

Kasson, John E. Amusing the Millions. Hill and Wang, 1978.

McCullough, Edo. Good Old Coney Island. Fordham University Press, 2000.

Lower East Side and Triangle Fire and New York City

Argersinger, Jo Ann. The Triangle Fire: A Brief History with Documents. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009.

Ballon, Hillary, ed. The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811–2011. Museum of the City of New York, 2012.

Benin, Leigh, Rob Linne, Adrienne Sosin, Joel Sosinsky with the Workers United (ILGWU) and HBO Documentary Films. Images of America: The New York City Triangle Factory Fire. Arcadia Publishing, 2011.

Ellis, Edward Robb. The Epic of New York City: A Narrative History. Basic Books, 1996, 2005.

Gray, Christopher, ed. Fifth Avenue: 1911 from Start to Finish in Historic Block-by-Block Photographs. Dover Publications, 1994.

Homberger, Eric. The Historical Atlas of New York City: A Visual Celebration of 400 Years of New York City’s History. Henry Holt, 1994; Holt Paperbacks, 2005.

Israelowitz, Oscar, and Brian Merlis. Manhattan’s Lower East Side in Vintage Photographs. Israelowitz Publishing, 2011.

Jackson, Kenneth T., and David S. Dunbar. Empire City: New York Through the Centuries. Columbia University Press, 2002.

Sanders, Ronald. The Lower East Side: A Guide to Its Jewish Past in 99 Photographs. Dover Books, 1980.

von Drehle, David. Triangle: The Fire That Changed America. Grove Press, 2003.

Ziegelman, Jane. 97 Orchard: An Edible History of Five Immigrant Families in One New York Tenement. HarperCollins, 2010.

Photography

Bann, Stephen, ed. Art and the Early Photographic Album. Yale University Press, 2011.

Burns, Ric, James Sanders, and Lisa Ades. New York: An Illustrated History. Knopf, 2011.

Gilman Paper Company Collection. The Waking Dream: Photography’s First Century. Henry Abrams, 1993.

Lavedrine, Bertrand, et al. Photographs of the Past: Process and Preservation. Getty Conservation Institute, 2009.

Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present. Museum of Modern Art, 2009.

Newhouse, Alana, ed. A Living Lens: Photographs of the Jewish Life from the Pages of the Forward. W. W. Norton, 2007.

For more, please visit AliceHoffman.com.