# Ever been acknowledged? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2010, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723 "2010-06-03T02:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/41 "2010-06-03T17:55:03Z")
I’m in the acknowledgements (and the introduction) to the most recently published biography of Houdini. I wrote some software that the authors used to do much of their research. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/42 "2010-06-03T17:57:59Z")
I don’t think I ever have been. I’ve been cited, and I’ve acknowledged others, but I don’t think anyone has ever acknowledged _me_. Now I feel bad. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/43 "2010-06-03T18:08:59Z")
One of the Google results for my name is an acknowledgement of my assistance as an “eagle-eyed proofreader”. I proofed that book over 25 years ago, but I never knew that I was acknowledged until Google. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/44 "2010-06-03T18:25:00Z")
A high school friend wrote a novel and named a character after me. It was a lesbian coming-out novel. (No, I’m not, but I was still QUITE honored.) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/45 "2010-06-03T18:26:05Z")
I’m one of the dozens of people Kim Newman acknowledged in _Judgment of Tears_. This was based on some online conversations about his earlier books in that series. I am semi-acknowledged in Harry Turtledove’s World War series. Many of the alien characters have names that are reverse spellings of the names of real people. I’m one of them. I was one of a number of people that used to converse regularly online with Turtledove back on an old AOL forum. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/46 "2010-06-03T18:31:25Z")
Years ago an author of a TCP/IP book used some of my code and I was acknowledged in his work. That is more than 15 years ago though. I don’t think it should take the shine off though - it is cool that you were acknowledged. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/47 "2010-06-05T13:25:35Z")
> [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](#): > > Hmmm…given your hometown, it’s quite possible that it’s the same friend! Was it in _Anansi Boys?_ And does your friend live in L.A. now? > Ooops, just checked and it’s in the Afterward, not the beginning, of the book. No…I can’t remember the name of the book just now, but my friend lives in Peterborough, England. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/48 "2010-06-05T21:43:32Z")
I’ve been acknowledged in a scholarly book on medieval literature, a handful of scientific articles about HIV, and the liner notes of a jazz CD or two. Although my contributions are minor, it’s always nice to be recognized. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/49 "2010-06-06T02:32:57Z")
Probably will be. My dad is publishing his book this fall(?). ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/50 "2010-06-06T08:15:54Z")
My friend acknowledged me in the linar notes of her latest CD. I was SO psyched. She is small now, but will be big in severeal years. ---
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2010, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/51 "2010-06-06T12:04:40Z")
Yes, in college, one of my designs was published in a book on adaptive (musical) instruments written by one of my professors who acknowledged design-contributors by name, along with crediting the design within the book. Also, more recently, acknowledged by name in a book on local history - the newspaper I co-own and edit/produce had originally published the articles as a series. I’m also listed on two (now old) CD’s, one from a band I was in and one from a friend’s band. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/52 "2014-06-17T21:12:58Z")
I was acknowledged by a couple of classmates in law review articles. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/53 "2014-06-18T00:31:13Z")
In the third grade, during the first class in the morning, I was told that a tempura painting I had done had won a scholastic art award. 🙂 I remember that picture clearly. :o I had painted a blue sky with fluffy clouds. But then I noticed I had dropped brown green and black paint on it from another painting of a mountain with trees I did afterwards. :mad: Instead of scrapping it, l decided to added a mountain with trees to the first painting also.😃 It was this first ruined then saved picture that won.😛 I thought nothing more about winning, other than incredulity.:dubious: However, after lunch during assembly, among the many announcements, the principal said, “…and now we would like to call up on stage and congratulate, Ouryln, for winning a scholastic art award.” :eek::eek::eek: ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/54 "2014-06-18T03:00:25Z")
A few. And a fictional spaceship was named after me as well. ---
**Author:** ![SuperAbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f17d59/32.png) [@SuperAbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperAbe)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/55 "2014-06-18T03:21:02Z")
> [@susan](#): > > A few. And a fictional spaceship was named after me as well. The _U.S.S. Susan_? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/56 "2014-06-18T03:24:51Z")
> [@SuperAbe](#): > > The _U.S.S. Susan_? > 😉 I was thinking her name might be Susan Enterprise. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/57 "2014-06-18T03:28:18Z")
I published a few papers based upon the research in my masters thesis which have been attributed in following papers a few times. Very obscure stuff a very few people in the world probably ever read. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/58 "2014-06-18T04:28:01Z")
I did a series of maps for[The Griffin Legacy](http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8593676?selectedversion=NBD26528187) book. I’m listed among the contributors from my Department. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/59 "2014-06-18T05:52:45Z")
In a way, yes… Walter Everett’s book _The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul_ was published in 2001, but I didn’t get around to buying it until a couple of years ago. In his acknowledgements, Everett mentions the rec.music.beatles newsgroup, which I participated in quite heavily in the latter half of the 1990s. He ticks off a number of members of that newsgroup who, he says, he is “indebted to…for inspiration as well as information.” The screen name I was using at the time is among those he cites. I quite literally cried out the first time I read this, as it was so entirely unexpected! ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723/60 "2014-06-18T11:17:56Z")
Just once. It was a book on Buddism. I keep a copy of it on my desk. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-acknowledged/541723.md?page=4)