 The history of "World Literature Today" is a story of men and women of letters deeply committed to advancing the cause of literature, art, and culture.The emergence of an internationally acclaimed journal in a small campus town of the American heartland is a phenomenon conceived as a natural extension of the intellectual encounters of scholars, students, and the reading public within a large academic research institution.The 1980 Nobel Laureate and 1978 Neustadt Prize winner Czesław Miłosz once declared, "If "WLT" were not in existence, we would have to invent it.