ELI’S COMIN’
Words and Music by Laura Nyro
Copyright (c) 1967 EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
Copyright Renewed
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L.A. WOMAN
Words and Music by THE DOORS
Copyright © 1971 (Renewed) DOORS MUSIC CO.
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Words and Music by Laura Nyro
Copyright (c) 1967 EMI Blackwood Music Inc.
Copyright Renewed
All Rights Administered by Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, 424 Church Street, Suite 1200, Nashville, TN 37219
International Copyright Secured All Rights Reserved
Reprinted by Permission of Hal Leonard LLC
Acknowledgments
My heartfelt thanks go to:
Robin Epstein, without whose encouragement and support this book would never have been written.
Jeff Gustavson, for his thoughtful copyediting.
Dorothy Cantwell, George Paik, Susan Sternau, and members of the Brooklyn Writers Guild (you know who you are), whose comments and suggestions made this novel richer and stronger.
About the Author
Photo credit: Hunter Canning Photography
Born in Washington, D.C., Sarah Relyea left the Berkeley counter-culture at age thirteen and processed its effects as a teenager in suburban Los Angeles. She would soon swap California’s psychedelic scene to study English literature at Harvard. Sarah has long addressed questions of identity in her writing, including in her book of literary criticism, Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin.
With her PhD in English and American literature from The CUNY Graduate Center, Sarah has taught at universities in New York and Taiwan. She remains bicoastal, living in Brooklyn and spending time on the Left Coast.
Visit Sarah at
www.sarahrelyea.com
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