{"id":41741,"date":"2012-02-24T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?p=41741"},"modified":"2021-02-17T01:16:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T06:16:55","slug":"kurt-vonnegut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/2012\/02\/24\/kurt-vonnegut\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture Date: January 24, 2012<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/37219010?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>And So It Goes<\/em> is the culmination of five years of research and writing\u2014the first-ever biography of the life of Kurt Vonnegut, author of the now-classic <em>Slaughterhouse Five<\/em>: Vonnegut\u2019s World War II experiences turned into fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Published in November 2011, Charles J. 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