Kurt Vonnegut's 2006 advice to high schoolers who wrote him: 'Make your soul grow'
In 2006, Ms. Lockwood, an English teacher at Xavier High School in NYC, gave her students an assignment to write persuasive letters inviting their favorite authors to the school. Five students chose Kurt Vonnegut. Though 84-year-old Vonnegut couldn't make the visit, he sent a beaut of a letter filled with advice. — Read the rest