Peter ReedPETER J. REED is Professor of English at the University of Minnesota. In 1972 he published the first book-length treatment of Vonnegut, Writers for the 'Seventies: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. He has contributed critical essays to several collections onVonnegut, and his biographical sketches appear in such standard works as The Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, Dictionary of Literary Biography, ribner's American Writers, gill's Survey of American Literature, and Postmodern Fiction: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide. With Marc Leeds, he is the editor of The Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays (Greenwood, 1996). Like Vonnegut, Reed is a survivor of aerial bombardment—his childhood home in London was destroyed by the Blitz.
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