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| | Kurt Vonnegut and Happy Birthday Wanda June |
 | | He found playwriting more difficult than he had anticipated and later described himself as “a madman who was attempting to extract moonbeams from excrement.” Happy Birthday, Wanda June opened on October 7, 1970, and ran Off Broadway until March 14, 1971. |
 | | Pleased with the success of his novels and the film of Slaughterhouse Five, Vonnegut spoke of being “through with novels,” and dreamed of a future of "plays from now on.” He revised Penelope, a 15-year-old attempt at drama, and turned it into Happy Birthday, Wanda June. |
 | | His books appeared on reading lists of college classes throughout America, and Vonnegut received honorary degrees from universities (among them, Indiana University), was appointed Distinguished Professor of English Prose by the City University of New York, and was elected vice-president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. |
| www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2004/wanda_june/vonnegut.html (1209 words) |
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