Charles J. Shields
And So It Goes (Henry Holt, $30.00) by Charles J. Shields, is the culmination of five years of research and writing—the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most influential iconoclasts of his time. An "engrossing, definitive biography, says Publishers Weekly in its starred review. Shields is a biographer of post-World War II American authors and the author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee.
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