Dreams Bigger Than The Night (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
My book emerges from a community, without which I would be the less. First and foremost I am indebted to Henriette von Trapp for allowing me to edit and use parts of her memoir. A remarkable woman, she was the wife of the first von Trapp child, Rupert. Though stricken with crippling polio shortly after her wedding, she led an active life that included raising six children. My indebtedness extends to her sister FranÇoise, who first brought the memoir to my attention. Warren Garfield, a longtime school friend, kindly found and reproduced the old newspaper reports of the Mary Astor trial. His own screenplay, based on the novel, gave me numerous ideas for revision. Mitchell Waters, a first-rate literary agent, read the manuscript with a discerning eye, pointing out numerous stylistic misadventures. My two editors, Gene Margaritondo and Janice Braunstein, artfully showed me the errors of my ways and, in so doing, saved me from subsequent despair.
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