The Magic Circle (82 page)

Pictured in 1988, Katherine Neville with Karl Pribram in Vienna, Austria.

Buddhas, bells, and blistering heat: the author with Karl Pribram in Japan.

The author in a cemetery at the San Francisco Marina—the opening scene of
The Magic Circle
.

Neville with one of her favorite authors, Martin Cruz Smith, signing a rare first edition of his book
Rose (
1998).

Neville on a research trip to Tunisia in 1999.

Authors Guild One Hundredth Anniversary Party in DC. From left to right: John Cole, director of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress; Nancy Gwinn, director of the Smithsonian Libraries; Scott Turow, president of the Authors Guild; and Katherine Neville, the first author to serve on the Smithsonian Libraries Board, in 2012.

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint material:

Henry Holt and Company, Inc.:
“Fire and Ice” from
The Poetry of Robert Frost
edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright 1951 by Robert Frost, Copyright 1923, © 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, Inc.

Houghton Mifflin Company
: Excerpt from
J.B
. by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright © 1956, 1957, 1958 by Archibald MacLeish. Copyright © renewed 1986 by William H. MacLeish and Mary H. Grimm. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

Tom Lehrer
: Excerpt from the lyrics of “Pollution” by Tom Lehrer. Copyright © 1965 by Tom Lehrer. Used by permission.

Thomas Nelson, Inc.
: Scripture from the King James Version Scripture. Copyright © 1976 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Publishers. Used by permission.

New Falcon Publications
: Excerpt from
AHA
by Aleister Crowley. Reprinted courtesy of New Falcon Publications, Tempe, AZ.

Copyright © 1998 by Katherine Neville

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