title: Candlewick: The Crystal Line
author:  Myrna Garrison 
description: Myrna and Bob Garrison began researching glass in the late 1970s.They began writing about the glass that fascinated them in the early 1980s. Myrna continues the research and writing today.
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  [Dedication](Contents.xhtml#toc_marker-1)
  
  
  To all the writing teachers who told me to quit.  
  I’m still not listening.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](Contents.xhtml#toc_marker-2)
  
  
  Thanks to my agent, Ginger Clark, and my editor, David Pomerico. Thanks also
  to Pamela Spengler-­Jaffe, Jennifer Brehl, Rebecca Lucash, Kelly O’Connor,
  Caroline Perny, Shawn Nicholls, Dana Trombley, Jessie Edwards, and the rest of
  the team at Harper Voyager. Thanks also to Jonathan Lyons, Sarah Perillo, and
  Holly Frederick. Big thanks to Martha and Lorenzo in L.A. and Diana Gill in
  New York. As always, thanks to Nicola for everything else.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Epigraph](Contents.xhtml#toc_marker-3)
  
  
  “I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society
  the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
  
  
  —­CHARLES BUKOWSKI, Ham on Rye
  
  
  “This isn’t America, Jack. This is L.A.”
  
  
  —­LT. MAX HOO