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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the talented team at Bedford, Freeman, and Worth. We’ve
relied on their expertise, enjoyed their enthusiasm, and appreciated their encourage-
ment more than we can say. We have had the stunningly good luck to work with two
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remarkable Bedford editors. To Nathan Odell, who has been with us since the start of
Literature & Composition, we send a thankful praise song for being a cheerleader, a
taskmaster, a diplomat, at once an advocate and a chief skeptic, a perfectionist, and the
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best of friends — as well as our “dear reader.” To Caitlin Kaufman, who led the team for
this revision, we send continuous applause for her knowledge of contemporary writers,
generous work ethic, commitment to ensuring that all students see themselves in the
literature they study, and — most of all — her unfaltering vision for how to improve this
book for students and teachers alike.
Since it does indeed take a village, we are grateful for the efforts of a supportive
team. Our associate editor, Kelly Noll, and our editorial assistant, Meghan Kelly, are fine
researchers and general problem solvers. Our gifted and innovative media editor, Gina
Forsythe, keeps us in the third decade of the twenty-first century. We are enormously
thankful to Andrea Cava, senior manager of publishing services; Vanavan Jayaraman,
senior project manager; and Nancy Benjamin, copyeditor, for their meticulous and tire-
less attention to details of language and design. To say a simple thanks to Lisa Erdely,
executive marketing manager, and Tiffani Tang, assistant marketing manager, is to deal
in understatement. Their unflagging determination, faith in the project, and creativity
sustained us throughout this revision.
We are fortunate to have had the assistance of some amazing teachers at key
times in this project, especially with the development of the Teacher’s Edition and
Teacher’s Resource Materials. Our thanks to contributors Christine Carson, Nancy
Dickinson, Natalie Fallert, Kimberly Frazier-Booth, Ellen Greenblatt, Charise Hallberg,
David Hillis, Julie Horger, Maura Kelly, Stephen Klinge, Mark Leidner, Tammy Schoen,
Tom Tucker, and Nichole Wilson.
Thank you to the students who contributed sample essays included in this edition
of the textbook and its teacher resource materials: Anette Aponte, Clara Asseily, Brian
Carbajal, Isabella Ganfield, Yanis Koutoupes Guessous, Caroline Ho, Maeva Kounga,
Fabiana Martinez, Luigi Onorato, Alyssa Pierangeli, Alexis Rendel, Sara Sam, Selin
Selcuker, and Aislinn Smeader. We appreciate their insights into the literature in this
book, and their work was integral to the writing instruction in the opening chapters.
We are grateful to the reviewers who always kept us anchored in the world of
the classroom reality and generously shared their amazing experience and exper-
tise for each edition of Literature & Composition. Our thanks to Megan Adams,
Lance Balla, Maren Baum, Barbara Bloy, Helen Boyd, Hannah Broich, Barbra A.
Brooks-Barker, Brian Burnett, Chasidy Burton, Betsy Butler, Mary Calkin, Caryl
Catzlaff, Jolinda Collins, Shirley Counsil, Cathy A. D’Agostino, Peter Drewniany,
Jennifer Dooley, Carol Elsen, Heather Ewing, Denise Ferguson, Michael Feuer,
Andrew Foster, Amy Gallagher, Elizabeth Gonsalves, Tammy Guehne, Kelly E.
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Allyson Howard, Suzanne Hunt, Erica Jacobs, Jan Kelly, Billie Krasniqi, Carol
Krause, Tom Lippi, Joan Mangan, Kelsey Mapes, Marie Leone Meyer, Nancy
Monroe, Tracy Mosca, Skip Nicholson, Jeffrey Nienaber, Sherlayne Nuckols,
Frazier L. O’Leary Jr., Susan Oswalt, Deborah Parker, Julia Parsons, Linda A.
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Pavich, Bill Pell, Catherine Pfaff, Sally P. Pfeifer, John Przyborowski, Amy Regis,
Kyle Reynolds, Stacia Richmond, Linda Rood, Jaclynn Rozansky, Heidi Rubin
de la Borbolla, Edward Schmieder, Kimberly Schuenemann, Bobbi Scott, Conni
Shelnut, Deborah Shepard, Pat Sherbert, William Smith, Larissa Snyder, Danielle
Sorrells, Virginia Allen Speaks, Al Stout, Doranna Tindle, Karen Van Duyn, Johnny
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Walters, Deb Ward, Addison Welp, Luke Wiseman, Carol Yoakley-Terrell, and David
Youngblood. We are deeply grateful for spouses, children, friends, and family who
have supported our efforts, given up their weekends and evenings to advise us,
and kept the faith that this project was absolutely worthwhile and would eventually
be finished!
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Finally, we would like to thank our students over the years, including more than a
few who have become admirable teachers themselves, for honoring the tradition of
reading and writing that gives meaning to our lives.
This is the book we committed ourselves to developing for you and your students.
We’ve brought to the task our many years of working with high school and college
students as well as our deep love of literature, reading, and writing. We hope
Literature & Composition helps you and your students and that you enjoy using it as
much as we enjoyed writing it.

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