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Both of the antagonists in the dispute, Mr. Herman H. Levart and Mr. Cyril M. Schneider, sent me their bibliographies and other material; and Dr. James F. Light's dissertation has also been helpful. I am further indebted to the publishers, Random House, New Directions, and Bantam Books; to studios, RKO Radio, 20th Century-Fox, and Universal-International; and to Professor I. J. Kapstein, Mrs. Daniel J. Donno, and Mr. Harry L. Nolder, Jr.

According to the University Recorder of Brown University, this is Nathanael West's real name and birth date, coming from West himself. In college he used the name Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein or N. von Wallenstein-Weinstein. Wallenstein was his mother's maiden name, and Professor I. J. Kapstein, who knew him at Brown, says 'von Wallenstein' is 'the full flowering of romantic invention. Nathaniel [which he also used at Brown] likewise.' His sister Laura gives her maiden name in Who's Who in America (under the listing of her husband S. J. Perelman) as Laura West.

'A Barefaced Lie,' Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, n. s. LXXXVII (July 1929), 210, 219, is signed N. West; but neither by subject matter nor style does it seem to be written by Nathanael West.

Another Brown University magazine, The Brown Jug, has a note in the December 1922 issue: 'Contributors to This Issue: N. Weinstein '24.' But he was not on the staff, and no articles were signed by his name or initials.

These ten letters, which I have not seen, are listed in the bibliography of James F. Light, Nathanael West: A Critical Study, With Some Biographical Material, unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse University, 1953.

These twelve letters, which I have not seen, are listed in the bibliography of Herman H. Levart, Nathanael West: A Study of His Fiction, unpublished M. A. essay, Columbia University, 1952.