About the Author

Sidney Offit, editor of The Library of America's four-volume Kurt Vonnegut edition, has written novels, books for young readers, and memoirs including, most recently,Friends, Writers, and Other Countrymen. He was senior editor ofIntellectual Digest, book editor ofPoliticsToday, and contributing editor ofBaseball Magazine. He wrote the foreword toLook at the Birdie, a collection of Kurt Vonnegut's unpublished short fiction.