Vonnegut Bio; Hank Nuwer Stories
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.
Interview with author Hank Nuwer, Hazing Expert,Novelist, Columnist, Writing Conference instructor
April 26, 2023 (updated) Faculty Interviews, MWW E-pistle, News Hank Nuwer is best known for his four young adult and adult books on the topic of hazing in society-including High School Hazing. He teaches journalism at Franklin College, Indiana but speaks on hazing at...
Sons of the Dawn: A Basque Odyssey and Other Videos of Hank Nuwer
See Video at Sons of the Dawn: A Basque Odyssey See Video of Death of A Rookie by Mike Ayalon See video of The Broken Pledge by Hank Nuwer
A USA-Poland love story: Gosia and Hank
My wife Gosia earned her Green Card in October 2019. She gave eight-weeks’ notice at her chief accountant job in Poland and shipped what she could to Indiana. “Wait, how did a fellow from Indiana meet a Polish lass,” you may ask? I persuaded Gosia in June of 2015 via...
A cup of coffee in the Big Leagues: Thomas Brandon Sullivan (Tom Sullivan); whiskey on the way down
Last Frontier Tales A cup of coffee in the Big Leagues Hank Nuwer The date was June 14, 1925. The Rheinlanders of Cincinnati showed up this Flag day to cheer their Reds against the Brooklyn Robins. This was the first game for new Brooklyn player-manager Zack (Buck)...
Annie Oakley by Hank Nuwer
I wanted to write a little something about the National Annie Oakley Center housed at Greenville’s Garst Museum. Naturally I walked one whole block from our house to the Union City, Ind., Carnegie Library. Always helpful library director Lawrence Sexton found me a...
The Front Porch President’s Last Days in Alaska
Last Frontier Days By Hank Nuwer President Warren Gamaliel Harding rose from newspaper editor in Marion, Ohio, to a “front porch” president after easily winning the 1920 election. Harding embarked on a tour of Alaska in 1923. His underlying goal was to...
A Calling to the Wild: Bishop Peter T. Rowe
Hank Nuwer When The Right Rev. Peter Trimble Rowe died in British Columbia at age 85 in 1942, his thousands of friends and admirers in Alaska expressed surprise. His adventurous, rugged outdoorsman adventures, while Episcopal bishop in the North for nearly a half...
Convicted Murderer of Berenice L. Keffer Denied Free Pass By Hank Nuwer
One of the most vicious murderers convicted of killing a victim in Randolph County invoked his constitutional right to an appeal in 2002. The Supreme Court of Indiana tagged the case as Anthony G. Hernandez v. State of Indiana. Here is the...
Hank Nuwer, Scholarly Articles C.V.
Accomplishment 2025 First Place, Best Commentary in Division, Hoosier State Press Association. 2025 Launch of HazingInfo database: https://www.hazinginfo.org/hazing-death-database-about 2025 Podcast by Ian Mandt et al, A Weed in The Garden of Academe,...