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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
No…I can’t remember the name of the book just now, but my friend lives in Peterborough, England.
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.
Probably will be. My dad is publishing his book this fall(?).
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.
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.
I was acknowledged by a couple of classmates in law review articles.
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:
A few. And a fictional spaceship was named after me as well.
The U.S.S. Susan?
I was thinking her name might be Susan Enterprise.
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.
I did a series of maps forThe Griffin Legacy book. I’m listed among the contributors from my Department.
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!
Just once. It was a book on Buddism. I keep a copy of it on my desk.