Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States November 11, 1922
Died - April 11, 2007
Gender - male
Website -
http://www.vonnegut.com/
Genre - Literature and Fiction, Short Stories, Science Fiction, Fantasy
Influences - Breece D'J Pancake, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Joseph Heller, William March, Mark Twain
Kurt Vonnegut's style is known for blending satire, black comedy and science fiction. Mastering these ingredients does not make conventional books, but that makes sense since the man behind the typewriter was anything but conventional. He was born in Indianapolis and attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun.
Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army and serving in World War II.
After the war, he attended University of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology and also worked as a police reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He left Chicago to work in Schenectady, New York in public relations for General Electric.
Vonnegut was a self-proclaimed humanist and socialist.
Slaughterhouse-Five, based on his experience as a war prisoner during the Dresden bombings made him millionare and continues to gain him fans even after so many years.
Kurt Vonnegut Audiobooks
Player Piano - August 1952 (Published as Utopia 14 in 1954, published again as Player Piano in 1966)
The Sirens of Titan - October 31, 1959 (Hugo Award-nominated)
Mother Night - 1961 (Adapted as a film in 1996)
Cat's Cradle - April 1963
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine - January 1965 (Later adapted with book and lyrics by Howard Ashman and music by Alan Menken; additional lyrics by Dennis Green)
Slaughterhouse-Five - 1969 (Nominated for Nebula and Hugo Awards, adapted as a film in 1972)
Breakfast of Champions - July 1973 (Adapted as a film in 1999)
Slapstick - October 1976 (Adapted as a film in 1984)
Jailbird - September 1979
Deadeye Dick - October 1982
Galápagos: A Novel - October 1985
Bluebeard, the Autobiography of Rabo Karabekian (1916–1988) - October 1987
Hocus Pocus - September 1990
Timequake - September 22, 1997
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