And So It Goes
Kurt Vonnegut: A Life

A cursory glance at Charles J. Shields’s bibliography shows him to have authored a string of hack profiles ranging from Saddam Hussein to J.K. Rowling, plus books on sexual disorders, Uruguay and Vladimir Putin. Clearly this is the man to write the first full-length biography of bouffant satirical d......more

An excellent biography about one of the iconic writers of our time,this book is by Charles Shields, who was with Vonnegut almost up to the day he went into the coma in March of 2007, dying in April, almost 85 years old. Shields shows the solid German-American Midwestern roots of the man, and then th......more

Charles J. Shields seems to really not like Kurt Vonnegut. This is a problem since the market for this book is people who do like Kurt Vonnegut. And I'm not saying that just because of all the dirty laundry about his personal life, but because he has no appreciation for his actual literary work. The......more

Written during the last year of Vonnegut’s life, this authorized biography details his successes, failures, good attributes, and bad. It took decades, and lots of odd ventures, to finally become a successful writer. During the several years following his POW experience, he tinkered with how to effec......more

And So It Goes: The sad life of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The face that peers out at you from the cover is immeasurably sad. It’s the face of a man in middle age weighed down by lifetimes of tragedy. The man — one of the most remarkable novelists of the 20th century — is Kurt Vonnegut, known throughout much......more