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The Rumpled Bed of Autobiography: Extravagant Lives, Extravagant Questions

Acknowledgments and Permissions

We gratefully acknowledge the help of the professional staff at Michigan Publishing Services, particularly our editor savant, Jason Colman; our key idea-person Meredith Kahn; our editor Amanda Karby; and the production staff who facilitated the communication of our work in multiple-format platforms, including print and open-access versions.

We depended on the research assistance of two doctoral students at the University of Michigan, Jina Kim and Tiffany Ball, who, while completing their dissertations, helped produce final versions of our previously published essays. Sidonie thanks Sheri Sytsema-Geiger, Key Administrator at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan, for her attention to permissions obligations.

Julia thanks Professor Lesley Ferris for consultation and conversation about autobiographical theatre.

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