Stories, Journalism & Vonnegut Bio Hank Nuwer
Grab a coffee and enjoy the story clearinghouse of Hank Nuwer with photos of Alaska and its wildlife by Malgorzata (Gosia) Nuwer.
You’ll find that I’ve added some finished and partially finished biography-in-progress of Kurt Vonnegut, “The Man in the Hole.”
Hank Nuwer’s Indiana University Press books on hazing. Podcast in The Culture
Podcast of “Weed in the Garden of Academe” with Hank Nuwer
Scroll down for archived Realalaskadaily stories.Thank you for reading. Got a compliment or gripe? Drop a line to Hjnuwer@Alaska.edu. Gosia and I want to keep this site ad-free. Trying to raise funds for last-minute research on my Kurt Vonnegut biography: “Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention.” (“Not authorized, but authentic scholarship”). Your donation would be so helpful: Hank Nuwer, PO Box 73446; Fairbanks, AK 99707-3446.
The story of Peter Lieber, Kurt Vonnegut’s paternal great-grandfather
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer Link: A government official questioned the necessity of keeping Peter Lieber as Consul The grandfather of Edith...
Indianapolis industrial accident in 1875 claimed the life of the nephew of Kurt Vonnegut’s paternal great-grandfather
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer Josephine Andre Mueller (her remarried name) lived a life marked by many tragedies. She was the sister-in- law of...
Death of a Salesman: How Clemens Vonnegut Really Did Die
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. said in Palm Sunday that his relative was a “cultivated eccentric” as the family historian John...
Exclusive: The Indianapolis Partnership of Charles Volmer & Clemens Vonnegut, Jr.
Excerpt from a work-in-progress, a biography of Kurt Vonnegut, by Hank Nuwer Kurt Vonnegut: "The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention" by Hank Nuwer Indianapolis in 1852 had years of growth ahead before it could rank itself a city of significance. A struggling...
Exclusive from Hank Nuwer’s forthcoming Kurt Vonnegut bio: Ancestor Johanna Juliana (Julie) Junghans of Dresden
Kurt Vonnegut’s Ancestry: Part One (excerpted from future biography of Vonnegut by Hank Nuwer) "Kurt Vonnegut: The Man in the Hole. A Life of Reinvention. " by Hank Nuwer The Vonnegut family’s earliest forbear in America was Johanna Juliana (Julie) Junghans. She...
Ill Met by Moonlight: Charles Wason and the Cornell Fraternity Hazing Death.
By Hank Nuwer: The details and facts in this essay were taken from testimony delivered by members of KAS on October 12 and October 16, 1873, at a two-day coroner’s inquest in Ithaca, New York,. Charles Wason.. Mortimer Marcellus Leggett arrived at Cornell...
A Hazing Death: Human Rights and the Constitutional Right to Remain Silent.
Carl Dingens (team photo), Row Two, Blonde hair, second from right Carl L. Dingens, Cornell 1896: Carl Louis Dingens died in Buffalo on April 30, 1927..He was born in Buffalo March 22, 1873, the son of Joseph A. and Julia G. Dingens. He attended Canisius School...
Casey Dog’s Story
July 18, 2026 I was cleaning out my digital files today and came across an unpublished column (I pretended was) written by my dog Casey. Casey died in 2019. I miss him still. I dated and then married my wife Gosia. Before Casey, she had been afraid of dogs. Before...
Review: Collier’s Magazine’s reboot sputters. But there’s hope for Issue Two.
By Hank Nuwer Collier’s magazine once flourished as one of the most-read publications in America. Kurt Vonnegut fans celebrate the tale of his discovery by Collier’s fiction editor Knox Burger. Publishing a story in Collier’s encouraged Vonnegut to keep writing–even...