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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
JUDY JONES is a freelance writer who lives in Princeton, New Jersey. WILLIAM WILSON was also a freelance writer. Wilson went to Yale and Jones to Smith, but both have maintained that they got their real educations in the process of writing this book. William Wilson died in 1999.
Copyright © 2006 by Judy Jones and the Estate of William Wilson
Copyright © 1987, 1995 by Judy Jones and William Wilson
All rights reserved.
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Portions of this book originally appeared in Esquire.
City Lights Books, Inc.: Excerpt from “The Day Lady Died” from Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara, copyright © 1964 by Frank O’Hara.
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HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.: Excerpt from “Daddy” from The Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes, copyright © 1963 by Ted Hughes.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jones, Judy.
An incomplete education.
1. Handbook, vade-mecums, etc. I. Wilson, William, 1948–1999. II. Title.
AG105.J64 1987 031′.02 86-91572
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