Jerome Klinkowitz is Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa and has written numerous books, including Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction (University of Illinois Press, 2d ed. 1980), Kurt Vonnegut (Methuen, 1982), and The American 1960s: Imaginative Acts in a Decade of Change (Iowa State University Press, 1980). James Knowlton is Assistant Professor of German at Rutgers-Camden. He has published many articles on Austrian and East German literature.