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.