The Unprofessionals (21 page)

The author wishes to thank the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for supporting her work.

J
ULIE
H
ECHT
is the author of
Happy Trails to You; Do the Windows Open?,
a collection of stories, all of which appeared in
The New Yorker;
and
Was This Man a Genius?,
a book of talks with Andy Kaufman. She has won an O. Henry Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives on the east end of Long Island in the winter and in Massachusetts in the summer and fall.