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large and exhausting enterprise might be Julia Furtaw, Rita Runchock, Lynn Koch, and
beyond me, I was able to rely upon a number Nancy Matuszak—stood by to offer assistance;
of wonderful midwives. My agent Agnes Birn- and most of all, I am forever indebted to my
baum never failed to offer encouragement and wife Sherry Hansen Steiger for her tireless
support; my remarkably resourceful and compiling of the glossaries, her efforts in writ-
accomplished editor Jolen Marya Gedridge ing sidebars, her invaluable talents as a
continued to assure me that there truly was researcher, her patience and love, and her
light at the end of the tunnel and that the always providing a shoulder to cry on during
great enterprise would one day be completed; the all-night writing sessions.
the always pleasant and helpful staff at Gale— —Brad E. Steiger

The Gale Enc y clopedia of the Unusu al and Unexplained