Will & I (17 page)

 

Acknowledgments

I'd like to thank my agent and fellow Sewanee alum, Amy Hughes, for taking this on, and Emily Bell at FSG for the same, as well as everyone else I've worked with at FSG, specifically Donna Cheng for the cover design. Blanche Fields, Nancy Allen, Trae and Colton Hawkins, Dewin Tibbs, Betsy Byars, Frank and Laurie Jones, Charles Clayton, Katherine Berdy, Brother Phillips, Jay Dismukes, Parker Evans, James Hollingsworth, Grey Ingram, Charles Crommelin, Stephen Walker, Jay Spencer, David Bowman, Brys and Zoë Stephens, Serena Vann, Barbara Major, Stephen Jackson, Mimi Bittick, Emily Chenoweth, Chip and Elizabeth Brantley, Milo Ryan, John Boyd, Jack Strifling, Winslow Hastie, Hampton Logan, B. T. Thomas, Edward Carlos, George Stevenson, Andrew McCalla, Jim Johnston, Tommy Kendrick, Caroline Reynolds, Jane Cooper, Amy Dillard, Priscilla Stokes, Michael Seale, Stutts and Jill Everette, Tracy Thomas, Casey Whiting, and Jennifer Desiderio have also all been instrumental in one way or another, as has David Kline. Special thanks to Lathrop Smith and family, Sarah Brolyes, Will Minton, Brett Connor, Michael Croft, Michael Terrell, Matt Murphree, Michael O'Rorke, and to everyone at the Sewanee School of Letters, especially John Grammer, Meg Binnicker, April Alvarez, Ellen Slezak, Elizabeth Skomp, Andrew Hudgins, Chris Bachelder, and Holly Goddard Jones, as well as to my doctors and therapists at Spain and Lakeshore rehabs. Special thanks also to Robert Pearigen and Paul Engsberg. Finally, I am eternally grateful for my work and friendship with Wyatt Prunty, Tom Jenks, and John Jeremiah Sullivan, without whom this book wouldn't exist. Special thanks to Joel Finsel and John's family as well.

 

A Note About the Author

Clay Byars
attended the Sewanee School of Letters in Tennessee and is an assistant editor of
Narrative Magazine
. He lives with his two dogs on a farm outside Birmingham, Alabama. You can sign up for email updates
here
.

 

Thank you for buying this

Farrar, Straus and Giroux ebook.

 

To receive special offers, bonus content,

and info on new releases and other great reads,

sign up for our newsletters.

 

Or visit us online at

us.macmillan.com/newslettersignup

 

For email updates on the author, click
here
.

 

Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

Copyright

 

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

18 West 18th Street, New York 10011

 

Copyright © 2016 by Clay Byars

All rights reserved

First edition, 2016

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Byars, Clay.

Title: Will & I: a memoir / Clay Byars.

Other titles: Will and I

Description: First edition.|New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015041607|ISBN 9780374290283 (pbk.)|ISBN 9780374714833 (e-book)

Subjects: LCSH: Byars, Clay.|Cerebrovascular disease—Patients—United States—Biography|Cerebrovascular disease—Patients—Rehabilitation.|Traffic accident victims—Biography.|Twins.

Classification: LCC RC388.5 .B93 2016|DDC 616.8/10092—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015041607

 

Our e-books may be purchased in bulk for promotional, educational, or business use. Please contact the Macmillan Corporate and Premium Sales Department at 1-800-221-7945, extension 5442, or by e-mail at
[email protected]
.

 

www.fsgbooks.com
•
www.fsgoriginals.com

www.twitter.com/fsgbooks
•
www.facebook.com/fsgbooks