Kurt Vonnegut: Life and Letters with Mark Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield and Don Farber
Sunday, Nov. 18, 11:00 a.m., Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Mark Vonnegut
More than thirty years after the publication of his first memoir The Eden Express, Mark Vonnegut continues his story with this account of coping with mental illness, finding his calling, and learning that willpower isn’t nearly enough. Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir (Bantam, $15.00) depicts a childhood as the son of a struggling writer (his father, Kurt), as well as the world after Vonnegut was released from a mental hospital. At the late age of 28 and after nineteen rejections, he is finally accepted to Harvard Medical School, where he gains purpose, a life, and some control over his condition.
Dan Wakefield
Kurt Vonnegut fans will have the chance to delve into his most intimate thoughts through an extraordinary collection of his personal correspondence. Spanning a sixty-year period and compiled by his lifelong friend Dan Wakefield, Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (Delacorte Press, $35.00) bears all the hallmarks of Vonnegut’s fiction—sometimes biting and satirical, at other times achingly sweet, and always alive with his unique point of view. Wakefield, who befriended Vonnegut in 1963, is a novelist and screenwriter whose books include the bestselling novel Going All the Way and the memoir New York in the Fifties.
Donald Farber
Donald Farber was Kurt Vonnegut’s agent, business manager, and life-long friend, to whom Vonnegut once inscribed a poster, "For Don, without whom this life would not be possible."
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
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