The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction gratefully acknowledges support from the Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund of The New York Community Trust, The New York Times Company Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and our members and individual donors. Programs at The Center are also made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.  Public programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.