The Moonlight Palace (17 page)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I want to thank the Department of Asian Studies at Binghamton University, and my colleague Lisa Yun, for making possible my first trip to Singapore. Deep thanks also to Rama and the Asian Festival of Children’s Content for their hospitality. I thank my lovely editor and friend, Neal Porter, for coming along with me on that trip, and making sure we visited the Peranakan Museum. Any mistakes of history are my own—some are deliberate, for fiction is not fact. Thanks to the remarkable gang at Amazon—all of them. Finally and forever, I thank my husband, the late David Bosnick, for giving me the happy childhood all of us deserve and many of us never get. You were, you are. The very heart of my heart. Whatever strength I have comes from you. And thanks be to my children and friends.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Liz Rosenberg was born on Long Island. She has written more than thirty books for adults and young readers, including novels, poetry, and nonfiction. Liz teaches English at Binghamton University, where she won the Chancellor’s Award for excellence in teaching. Her first husband was the late novelist John Gardner, author of
Grendel
. Her second husband was the brilliant teacher and writer David Bosnick. She lives in Binghamton, New York, with her daughter Lily and their two shih tzus. Her son, Eli, is an actor and magician in New York City. In 2014, Rosenberg was a US/UK Fulbright Fellow at Queens University, in Belfast, North Ireland, UK.