Wayne Laufert runs the Vonnegut Baltimore book club, the only chapter of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library outside Indianapolis. He is a former newspaper editor and reporter who has worked for the federal government since 2010. His article “From the Slaughter: Vonnegut on War and the Book That Made Him Famous” appeared in The Humanist magazine earlier this year. Wayne is writing a book about Vonnegut for the American Humanist Association. He has lived just outside Baltimore City his whole life.