ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The new material added to the second edition would not have been found were it not for the help of Jerome Klinkowitz, Professor of English at The University of Northern Iowa. Prof. Klinkowitz was one of the earliest appreciators of Kurt Vonnegut’s work, became his trusted friend, and his many works on the author include The Vonnegut Effect and Vonnegut in Fact.

For this third edition, thanks to Christina Jarvis, Professor of English at SUNY Fredonia and Vonnegut scholar extraordinaire, for guiding the editor to important speeches included in this volume for the first time.

Thanks to Lucy Loomis and the Sturgis Library, Cape Cod, for providing Vonnegut’s 1969 anti-war speech, and background articles.

Thanks to the Lilly Library at Bloomington, Indiana, home of the Vonnegut archive, for its usual aid and support.

—Dan Wakefield, editor