The Book of Forbidden Wisdom (27 page)

 

A
nd they are gone: aye, ages long ago

These lovers fled away into the storm.

 

Acknowledgments

Thank you to my indefatigable and wise agent, Richard Curtis.

To David Pomerico, my editor, and his assistant, Rebecca Lucash.

To Judith Gelman, patient copyeditor.

To my creative writing professors at Stanford University, including John L'Heureux, the late Albert J. Guerard and the late Robert Stone. I owe a debt of special thanks to Nancy Huddleston Packer, without whom I probably wouldn't have written either
The Book of Forbidden Wisdom
or
The Garden of Darkness
(Ravenstone, 2014).

To my wonderfully supportive colleagues in the English Department at Smith College.

To Mimi—­Irene Dorit—­a wonderful mother-­in-­law.

To my late father-­in-­law, Murray Dorit.

To the memory of my parents, Paul Murray Kendall and Carol Seeger Kendall, both writers who always just assumed I would be too.

To my sister Callie—­Caroline Kendall Orszak—­to whom this book is dedicated. Thanks for being a superb critic and reader—­at the very beginning, and in the home stretch as well.

To Sasha Dorit-­Kendall and Gabriel Dorit-­Kendall, for their love and support.

Finally, to Rob. For everything.

 

About the Author

When GILLIAN MURRAY KENDALL was a child, she spent multiple years in England while her father researched his biography of Richard III, and her mother wrote children's books. She thrived. She had stumbled into a wardrobe, and her enchanted world was England. That sense of belonging-­in-­the-­strange shaped both Gillian's life and her writing. In the 1980s, the months and months she spent in Africa waiting in lines for kerosene and milk and rice or camping while being circled by annoyed lions was a new normal, while Gillian found the once-­familiar Harvard, with its well-­stocked grocery stores, alien and unknown. She saw things in a way she could not before. Recently Gillian spent two years in Paris, where learning a new culture, a new strangeness, resulted in the writing of her first book,
The Garden of Darkness
, and the beginning of
The Book of Forbidden Wisdom
. Gillian is a Professor at Smith College, where she teaches English literature, primarily Shakespeare. She is married to biologist Robert Dorit and has two sons, Sasha and Gabriel.

You can learn more about Gillian at
gilliankendall.org,
and follow her on Twitter (@GillianMKendall) and Facebook
(www.facebook.com/gillian.kendall1).

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Copyright

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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K OF FORBIDDEN WISDOM
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EPub Edition MARCH 2016 ISBN: 9780062466105

Print Edition ISBN: 9780062466112

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