{"product_id":"kurt-vonnegut-the-making-of-a-writer-paperback","title":"Kurt Vonnegut: The Making of a Writer - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Wakefield\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first and only YA biography of the great American novelist and humanist and author of such classics as \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse Five. N\u003c\/i\u003eow in Paperback. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mr. Wakefield's account of Vonnegut's life is funny and tender, the kind of book that will leave you bruised and happy and reverberating a little, as if you are a piano that someone has just finished playing.\" --Meghan Cox Gurdon, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKurt Vonnegut, author of \u003ci\u003eSlaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other brilliant novels and short stories, is one of our greatest American writers, often using science fiction, humor, and a humanist view of society, religion, politics, and human nature in his writing to show us the absurdity and the loveliness of life on earth. Born in 1922, Vonnegut's life was full of great fortune and great despair: his family was wealthy, but lost everyting in the market crash of 1929; he was the youngest son in a loving family, until his mother fell into a depression and committed suicide; he joined the army in WWII with great pride for our country, but experienced instead a world of destruction and horror. These and many others were the experiences that made him a writer. But how did he channel the highs and lows of his life into great writing? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDan Wakefield, a friend and mentee of Vonnegut's for decades and a fellow Hoosier, distills 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. The book also includes original art by Vonnegut and family photographs. Here is an American life, a burgeoning artist's life to inspire anyone who has read Vonnegut's work or who themselves aspire to write.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDan Wakefield is a novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, he was an Eagle Scout and began his writing career as a columnist of his high school newspaper, \u003ci\u003eThe Shortridge Daily Echo. \u003c\/i\u003eShortridge High was also the school Kurt Vonnegut had graduated from a few years earlier. They didn't know each other at the time, but eventually they met and became lifelong friends.\u003cbr\u003e Dan has served as a sports correspondent and writer for a number of magazines and newspapers including Harpers, Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Times Magazine. His best-selling novels \u003ci\u003eGoing All The Way\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStarting Over\u003c\/i\u003e were made into feature films, and a documentary film was produced of his memoir \u003ci\u003eNew York in the Fifties\u003c\/i\u003e. He splits his time between Indianapolis IN and Miami FL.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 03, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755512463648,"sku":"9781644214046","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/dfa02bf2db2ef60bdbac21f2e44edcac.webp?v=1780061117","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/kurt-vonnegut-the-making-of-a-writer-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}