Author's Note: This book is written in the style of an oral history, a form which requires interviewing a wide variety of witnesses and compiling their testimony. Anytime multiple sources are questioned about a shared experience, it's inevitable for them occasionally to contradict each other. For additional biographies written in this style, please see

Capote

by George Plimpton,

Edie

by Jean Stein, and

Lexicon Devil

by Brendan Mullen.