sometimes they don't stop for anything

Kurt Vonnegut was kind of a dick , as it turns out. A new biography by Charles Shields paints a picture of Vonnegut as a bitter, depressed man with a vicious temper born from survivor's guilt and family trauma, and it's really rattling the agreed-upon perception of Vonnegut as Literature's Frumpy Grandpa.

Or not. I mean, most of the authors we love, or have heard of, are famous for being complicated and dark. Roald Dahl, for example. Flannery O'Connor, although that's not much of a surprise to...