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Many people helped me with this book, and so I would like to express my gratitude:

To Beverly Millard, head librarian of the Waukegan Historical Society for supplying me with photocopies of the Society’s material on Ward Just and a copy of Ward’s talk at the annual meeting of the Friends of Lake Forest Library on April 28, 1985: “The Fictional Life.”

To the staff at the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research in the summer of 2014—Leslie Edwards, Cheri Gay, and Gina Tecos—for their unfailing consideration and thoughtfulness in helping me navigate through the Center’s Ward Just Archive for two weeks.

To the outside reviewer of my original manuscript, who offered helpful criticism. In response to his or her suggestions, I cut an analysis of one novel, added an analysis of a short story, reorganized two chapters, and sharpened my conclusions in several chapters.

I would also like to acknowledge that portions of chapters 1 and 3 are paraphrases of material I published earlier in Power and Class in Political Fiction, copyright 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan, New York.