{"id":34891,"date":"2012-01-23T20:42:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T20:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/?p=34891"},"modified":"2012-01-23T20:42:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T20:42:54","slug":"umw-great-lives-associate-director-to-discuss-kurt-vonnegut-on-public-radio-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/23\/umw-great-lives-associate-director-to-discuss-kurt-vonnegut-on-public-radio-program\/","title":{"rendered":"UMW Great Lives Associate Director Discusses Kurt Vonnegut on Public Radio Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/23\/umw-great-lives-associate-director-to-discuss-kurt-vonnegut-on-public-radio-program\/charles-shields\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34901\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"34901\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/charles-shields\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2520,2336\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;6.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;\\u00a92005 Michael Bailey&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;FinePixS2Pro&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Charles Shields&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;\\u00a92005 Michael Bailey (434)296-4295\\rThis photograph is licensed to Charles Shields for his marketing and book promotion purposes.&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;59&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Charles Shields&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Charles Shields\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Charles J. Shields&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-300x278.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-1024x949.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-34901\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-300x278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-300x278.jpg 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-1024x949.jpg 1024w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-768x712.jpg 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-1536x1424.jpg 1536w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-2048x1898.jpg 2048w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-1140x1057.jpg 1140w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2012\/01\/Shields-Charles11-600x556.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>University of Mary Washington Associate Director of the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series Charles J. Shields will explore how Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s experience as a World War II prisoner of war influenced his later writing during an interview on the \u201cWith Good Reason\u201d public radio program beginning Saturday, January 28.<\/p>\n<p>The interview can be heard on January 28 at 4:30 p.m. on WCVE 88.9 FM and on Sunday, January 29 at 7 p.m. and Monday, January 30 at 12:30 a.m. on WAMU 88.5 FM. The segment, \u201cFrom Combat to College,\u201d is expected to be online beginning the week of the show at <a href=\"http:\/\/withgoodreasonradio.org\/2012\/01\/from-combat-to-college\/\">http:\/\/withgoodreasonradio.org\/2012\/01\/from-combat-to-college\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Shields\u2019 biography, \u201cAnd So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut, A Life,\u201d is the first full-length, definitive biography of Vonnegut based on interviews with him and 125 of his contemporaries, friends and family members. Shields spent five years researching Vonnegut for the biography.<\/p>\n<p>The man who emerges in \u201cAnd So It Goes\u201d is not the man his readers may have believed him to be. Shields reveals the effects of Vonnegut\u2019s mother\u2019s suicide, his internment as a POW in Dresden during World War II, his many years as a literary failure before his breakout success in his late 40s, his adoption of three children when they were orphaned by his sister and brother-in-law, his bouts of depression and his own attempted suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Shields received a master\u2019s degree in American history and a bachelor\u2019s degree in English from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of the New York Times-bestselling biography, \u201cMockingbird, A Portrait of Harper Lee\u201d (2006). Co-founder and vice-president of Biographers International Organization, Shields and his work have been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post. He also will appear on WABC-AM\u2018s \u201cJohn Batchelor\u201d show at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Feb.2.\u00a0 The New York City talk show can be accessed online at http:\/\/wabcradio.com.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Good Reason\u201d is the only statewide public radio program in Virginia. It hosts scholars from Virginia\u2019s public universities who discuss the latest in research, pressing social issues and the curious and whimsical. \u201cWith Good Reason\u201d is produced for the Virginia Higher Education Broadcasting Consortium by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and is broadcast in partnership with public radio stations in Virginia and Washington D.C.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong># # #<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>News release prepared by: Brynn Boyer \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Mary Washington Associate Director of the Chappell Great Lives Lecture Series Charles J. Shields will explore how Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s experience as a World War II prisoner of war influenced his later writing during an interview on the \u201cWith Good Reason\u201d public radio program beginning Saturday, January 28. 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