Whether writing about a boyhood in the Great Depression, the bond between a young man and his family, digging storm cellars and ducking tornadoes, or the dropping of the atomic bomb as experienced by a paperboy in small-town Kansas, the author brings a congenial mixture of seriousness and humor to his subjects.
William Kloefkorn (1932¿2011) was an emeritus professor of English at Nebraska Wesleyan University and Nebraska¿s state poet. He is the author of many volumes of poetry and two previous memoirs, This Death by Drowning and Restoring the Burnt Child, both published by the University of Nebraska Press.
