<P> A foreword is a ( usually short ) piece of writing sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature . Typically written by someone other than the primary author of the work , it often tells of some interaction between the writer of the foreword and the book 's primary author or the story the book tells . Later editions of a book sometimes have a new foreword prepended ( appearing before an older foreword if there was one ) , which might explain in what respects that edition differs from previous ones . </P>
what is the purpose of the forward of a book
tells of some interaction between the writer of the foreword and the book 's primary author or the story the book tells