Breaking Down Vonnegut with Julia Whitehead

200 North 7th Street,Terre Haute IN 47809

10 November, 2022

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Join us for our Southwest Indiana Celebration of Vonnegut during VonnegutFest, a live discussion on Vonnegut, his influence, and ways to engage with Vonnegut today with KVML CEO/Founder and Author of Breaking Down Vonnegut, Julia Whitehead. This program is in conjunction with Indiana State Universities Lectures in Modern American Literature Series. Indiana natives James and Virginia Bash strongly believed in the primacy of good language skills. James graduated from Indiana State in 1937 and went on to teach second-year English, journalism, and American literature classes at the University from1940–1942 and from 1946–1978. Virginia earned her degree from Indiana State in 1938. The couple shared a deep passion for modern American literature. They could often be found at their reading club engaging in discussion and criticism of recent works with eclectic groups of faculty, faculty spouses, friends, and students.  The Lectures in Modern American Literature series at Indiana State University is supported by an endowment established in the memory of James and Virginia Bash. This fund ensures that future generations of faculty and students, as well as members of the community, can continue to share in the Bash family’s appreciation of modern American literature. Julia Whitehead is founder and CEO of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, which was unveiled in April as Indiana's first Literary Landmark on the federal register. She also served as a Marine Corps Officer, a writer and editor for Random House Publishers, Military Officers Association of America, Eli Lilly and Company, and also worked for the state legislatures of South Carolina and Indiana. In her side hustle, the consulting firm Random Harvest Group, Julia helps people write and edit books and documents but she also advises groups like Indy Jazz Foundation and Candles Holocaust Museum in Terre Haute on business practices. She is the author of Breaking Down Vonnegut, which was #1 on Amazon in February for YA Literary Biography and YA 20th Century American History.