Jerome klinkowitz biography

Jerome Klinkowitz is a University Distinguished Scholar and professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa.

Jerome Klinkowitz is a professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the University of Northern Iowa.

Biographical Sketch.

Jerome Klinkowitz was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in He earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin in His dissertation, "The Significance.

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Biographical Sketch..

Jerome Klinkowitz is a literary critic, scholar, author, and teacher. He was born December 24, 1943, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Klinkowitz attended Marquette University and received a B.A.

in 1966 and an M.A. in 1967.

Klinkowitz rediscovered the joy of being at the baseball park when, as a middle-aged professor, he took his own children to the Waterloo Diamonds games.

In 1969, he received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. He was an assistant professor at Northern Illinois University, 1969-1972, and began teaching English at the University of Northern Iowa in 1972. As of 2009 he still held this position as a full professor specializing in contemporary narrative and literature.Klinkowitz has published prolifically, writing reviews and articles for several literary publications and serving as both editor and author for a number of books.

Much of his work focuses on bringing lesser-known authors of innovative fiction to attention, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Jerzy Kosinski. Vonnegut is Klinkowitz's primary research subject, and his book, The Vonnegut Effect (2004), is regarded as on