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The first article carrying Vonnegut's byline, 'This Business of Whistle Purchasing,' a lighthearted criticism of a school fund-raiser, was submitted at the urging of his sophomore English teacher.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: Article Business Carrying Criticism English English Teacher First His Lighthearted Purchasing School Sophomore Submitted Teacher Urging Whistle

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On the strength of Vonnegut's reputation, 'Breakfast of Champions' spent a year on the best-seller lists, proving that he could indeed publish anything and make money.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: Anything Breakfast Champions Could He Indeed Lists Make Money Proving Publish Reputation Spent Strength Year

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My theory is that Kurt had a lot of residual pain from his childhood. And when you pile that on top of his experience in World War II - he was in Dresden when it was bombed and saw a city annihilated. When you combine those two things, my impression of Kurt Vonnegut at 84 was that he was a very pained and haunted man.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: Bombed Childhood City Combine Experience Had Haunted He His Impression Kurt Lot Man Pain Pile Saw Theory Things Those Top Two Very War World World War World War Ii You

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'To Kill a Mockingbird' is really two stories. One is a coming-of-age tale told from the point of view of Scout Finch, a girl of about nine, and her slightly older brother, Jem. The second story concerns their father, attorney Atticus Finch, who has been appointed to defend a black man, Tom Robinson, falsely accused of raping a white woman.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: About Accused Appointed Attorney Been Black Brother Concerns Defend Falsely Father Girl Her Man Mockingbird Nine Older Older Brother Point Point Of View Really Robinson Scout Second Slightly Stories Story Tale Tom Two View White Who Woman

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In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: Adult Biographies Field Histories Late Left Teaching Write Young Young Adults 1990S

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Harper Lee and Truman Capote became friends as next-door neighbors in the late 1920s, when they were about kindergarten age. From the start, they recognized in each other "an apartness," as Capote later expressed it; and both loved reading. When Lee's father gave them an old Underwood typewriter, they began writing original stories together.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: About Age Became Began Both Each Expressed Father Friends Gave Kindergarten Late Later Lee Loved Neighbors Next-Door Old Original Other Reading Recognized Start Stories Them Together Truman Typewriter Were Writing 1920S

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'To Kill a Mockingbird' appeared to highly favorable reviews and quickly climbed to the top of bestseller lists, where it remained for more than eighty weeks. In 1961, the novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. A film adaptation was released in 1962, starring Gregory Peck, and received three Academy Awards.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: Academy Academy Awards Adaptation Appeared Awarded Awards Bestseller Climbed Eighty Favorable Film Highly Lists Mockingbird More Novel Prize Pulitzer Quickly Received Released Remained Reviews Than Three Top Weeks Where

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Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: August Bernard Born Boy Even Grandfather He His Informal Little Named Photographs

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Edith Vonnegut behaved like a guest in her children's lives. To her way of thinking, parenting came under the general heading of household tasks, which, as a wealthy woman, she could pay others to do.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: Behaved Came Children Could General Guest Heading Her Household Like Lives Others Parenting Pay She Tasks Thinking Way Wealthy Which Woman

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All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

~Charles J. Shields

Topics: Dissolve Either Genre Great Invent Literature Works

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 2nd, 1951

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