Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of A Writer

Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat''s Cradle, and many other brilliant novels and short stories, was one of the 20th century''s greatest writers. Dan Wakefield, a friend and mentee of Vonnegut''s for decades and a fellow Hoosier, distils the facts including Kurt''s novels, essays, interviews, letters and personal experiences, into a beautiful telling of the making of a writer. Using the second person ''You,'' it is as though Wakefield is a friend walking through Kurt''s life alongside him, a guide for readers to his extraordinary life.