Angel Baby: A Novel (25 page)
Many thanks to my agent, Henry Dunow; my editor, Asya Muchnick; and everybody at Little, Brown/Mulholland Books. Also, thanks to the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for financial support during the writing of this book.
Richard Lange is the author of the story collection
Dead Boys,
which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the novel
This Wicked World
. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and his fiction has appeared in the
Iowa Review,
the
Atlantic Monthly
’s Fiction for Kindle series, and
Best American Mystery Stories 2004
and
2011
. He lives in Los Angeles.
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The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2013 by Richard Lange
Author photograph by Paul Redmond
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