Fear Of Flying

For

Grace Darling Griffin

And for my grandfather,

Samuel Mirsky

Thanks to my intrepid editors: Aaron Asher and Jennifer Josephy. And thanks to the National Endowment for the Arts for a grant which helped.

And thanks to Betty Anne Clark, Anita Gross, Ruth Sullivan, Mimi Bailin, and Linda Bogin.

And thanks especially to the live-in muse who gave me a room of my own from the start.