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    Kurt Vonnegut (/ˈvɒnəɡət/ VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. His...
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    Kurt Vonnegut Sr. (November 24, 1884 – October 1, 1957) was an American architect and architectural lecturer active in early- to mid-20th-century Indianapolis...
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  • The bibliography of Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) includes essays, books and fiction, as well as film and television adaptations of works written by the Indianapolis-born...
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  • fictional town in eastern New York state, used as a setting for many of Kurt Vonnegut's novels and stories, including Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five...
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  • commentary. Vonnegut is the daughter of novelist Kurt Vonnegut and his first wife, Jane Marie (Cox), and the sister of Mark Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut. Her...
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    Slaughterhouse-Five (category Novels by Kurt Vonnegut)
    1969 semi-autobiographic science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It follows the life experiences of Billy Pilgrim, from his early years...
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    Mark Vonnegut (born May 11, 1947) is an American pediatrician and author. He is the son of writer Kurt Vonnegut. He is the brother of Edith Vonnegut and...
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  • Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988) is a 1987 novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. Told in first-person narrative, it describes the later years of fictional...
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  • Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time is a 2021 American documentary film, directed by Robert B. Weide. The film tells the story of Kurt Vonnegut's life and work...
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  • Kurt Vonnegut, published by Delacorte in August 1968. The stories range from wartime epics to futuristic thrillers, given with satire and Vonnegut's unique...
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    postmodern novel, with science fiction elements, by American writer Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's fourth novel, it was first published on March 18, 1963, exploring...
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  • Bruce, and Woody Allen; his latest, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021), explores the life and works of Kurt Vonnegut. Weide has received an Academy Award...
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    Ice-nine (category Kurt Vonnegut)
    Ice-nine is a fictional material that appears in Kurt Vonnegut's 1963 novel Cat's Cradle. Ice-nine is described as a polymorph of ice which instead of...
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  • What's the Hurry, Son? is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. In an editor's note at the beginning of the book, Vonnegut claims to have found hundreds of scraps...
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    The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library is dedicated to championing the literary, artistic, and cultural contributions of the late writer, artist, and Indianapolis...
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  • Notable people with the surname Vonnegut include: Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007), American science fiction writer Clemens Vonnegut (1824–1906), German-American...
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  • The Sirens of Titan (category Novels by Kurt Vonnegut)
    The Sirens of Titan is a comic science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., first published in 1959. His second novel, it involves issues of free will...
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    2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023. Vonnegut, Kurt (1981). Palm Sunday. New York: Delacorte Press. p. 302. Vonnegut, Kurt (ndg) "Wailing Shall be in All Streets"...
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  • Breakfast of Champions (category Novels by Kurt Vonnegut)
    Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday is a 1973 novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. His seventh novel, it is set predominantly in the fictional town of...
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  • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (category Novels by Kurt Vonnegut)
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine, Kurt Vonnegut's fifth novel, was published in 1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston and as a Dell mass-market...
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  • older brother of American novelist Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana to architect Kurt Vonnegut Sr (November 24, 1884 – October 1...
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    with a then unknown Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Sturgeon was the inspiration for the recurrent character of Kilgore Trout in Vonnegut's novels.) In 1959, he...
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  • Slapstick (novel) (category Novels by Kurt Vonnegut)
    Lonesome No More! is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. Written in 1976, it depicts Vonnegut's views of loneliness, both on an individual and social...
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  • Deadeye Dick (category Novels by Kurt Vonnegut)
    Deadeye Dick is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut originally published in 1982. The novel's main character, Rudy Waltz, or "Deadeye Dick", commits accidental manslaughter...
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  • Galápagos (1985) is the eleventh novel published by American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set in the Galápagos Islands after a global financial disaster, the...
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  • Kilgore Trout (category Kurt Vonnegut characters)
    Kilgore Trout is a fictional character created by author Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007). Trout is a notably unsuccessful author of paperback science fiction...
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  • Harrison Bergeron (category Short stories by Kurt Vonnegut)
    satirical dystopian science-fiction short story by American writer Kurt Vonnegut, first published in October 1961. Originally published in The Magazine...
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  • Mother Night (category Novels by Kurt Vonnegut)
    Mother Night is a novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut, first published in February 1962. The novel takes the form of the fictional memoirs of Howard...
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  • Happy Birthday, Wanda June (category Films based on works by Kurt Vonnegut)
    comedy-drama film directed by Mark Robson, based on a 1970 play by Kurt Vonnegut. The opening of this play is "This is a simple-minded play about men...
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  • Granfalloon (category Kurt Vonnegut)
    A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass". That...
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