To Shaye Areheart and Linda Loewenthal of Harmony Books, who first brought me into this project, and to Bruce Harris, Chip Gibson, Andrew Martin, Hilary Bass, and Tina Constable, who published and loved Douglas; to Peter Straus and Nicky Hursell in the UK, for their valuable editorial suggestions;
To Mike J. Simpson, former president of ZZ9, Douglas Adams’s official fan club, whose generosity and encyclopedic knowledge of Douglas’s life and work was an invaluable resource;
To Patrick Hunnicutt, who assisted my efforts in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and to Lizzy Kremer, Maggie Philips, and Linda Van in Ed Victor’s office;
To the various publications, writers, and friends of Douglas who so generously gave access and permission to use their work as it related to his;
To Isabel, my partner in life;
To my sons, Sam and William, who, as new generations tend to do, devoured Douglas’s books;
To all of Douglas’s readers: as you know, the love went (and still goes) both ways.
For more information on Douglas Adams and his creations, please visit www.douglasadams.com, the official website.
You may wish to join ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha, the official Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Appreciation Society, founded in 1980. For details of this fan-run club, visit www.zz9.org.
Douglas Adams was a patron of the following two charities: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (www.gorillas.org), and Save the Rhino International (www.savetherhino.org).