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Kurt Vonnegut, 84, writes to some students

The following letter can be found in the book, More Letters of Note. Huge thanks to both the Kurt Vonnegut Estate and Xavier High School. Image courtesy of Michael LiVigni, headmaster at Xavier High School. In 2006, a group of students at Xavier High School in New York City were given an assignment by their English teacher, Ms. Lockwood, that was to test their persuasive writing skills: they were asked to write to their favourite author and ask him or her to visit the school. It’s a measure of his ongoing influence that five of those pupils chose Kurt Vonnegut, the novelist responsible…

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