Kurt Vonnegut (/ˈvɒnəɡət/ VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. He...
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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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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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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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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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Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988) is a 1987 novel by American author Kurt Vonnegut. It is told as a first-person narrative and describes the late years...
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Cat's Cradle (redirect from San Lorenzo (Vonnegut))
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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Welcome to the Monkey House (redirect from 1970 book by Kurt Vonnegut)
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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Robert B. Weide (section Work with Kurt Vonnegut)
Woody Allen. His latest documentary, Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time (2021), explores the life and works of Kurt Vonnegut. Weide has received an Academy Award...
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Hocus Pocus (novel) (redirect from Hiroshi Matsumoto (Kurt Vonnegut character))
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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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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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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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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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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Bombing of Dresden (section Kurt Vonnegut)
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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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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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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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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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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Galápagos (novel) (redirect from Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut)
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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with a then unknown Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Sturgeon was the inspiration for the recurrent character of Kilgore Trout in Vonnegut’s novels.) Sturgeon ghost-wrote...
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Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut is a collection of twelve essays written by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. The essays were originally...
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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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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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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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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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Player Piano (novel) (category Novels by Kurt Vonnegut)
Player Piano is the debut novel by American writer Kurt Vonnegut Jr., published in 1952. The novel depicts a dystopia of automation partly inspired by...
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