Stanley Corngold is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University and the author of numerous books on Kafka as well as the editor of the Norton Critical Edition of Kafka's stories.

Benno Wagner is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and German Literature, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany. He is the co-editor of the German Critical Edition of Kafka's Amtliche Schriften (Office Writings) and has published widely on many aspects of Kafka's work.