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Kurt Vonnegut Jr


USA flag (1922 - 2007)
Uncle of Laureen Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922. He studied at the universities of Chicago and Tennessee and later began to write short stories for magazines. His first novel, Player Piano, was published in 1951 and since then he has written many novels, among them: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Mother Night (1961), Cat's Cradle (1963), God Bless You Mr Rosewater (1964), Welcome to the Monkey House; a collection of short stories (1968), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick, or Lonesome No More (1976), Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), Galapagos (1985), Bluebeard (1988) and Hocus Pocus (1990). During the Second World War he was held prisoner in Germany and was present at the bombing of Dresden, an experience which provided the setting for his most famous work to date, Slaughterhouse Five (1969). He has also published a volume of autobiography entitled Palm Sunday (1981) and a collection of essays and speeches, Fates Worse Than Death (1991).
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Novels
   Player Piano (1952)
     aka Utopia 14
   The Sirens of Titan (1959)
   Cat's Cradle (1960)
   Mother Night (1961)
   God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
   Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)
   Breakfast of Champions (1973)
   Slapstick (1976)
   Deadeye Dick (1981)
   Jailbird (1983)
   Galapagos (1985)
   Bluebeard (1987)
   Between Time and Timbuktu (1990)
   Hocus Pocus (1990)
   Timequake (1997)
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Collections
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Chapbooks
   Sun Moon Star (1980)
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Plays
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Novellas and Short Stories
   FUBAR (2009)
   The Big Trip Up Yonder (2009)
   Basic Training (2012)
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Short Stories
   2 B R 0 2 B (1962)
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Non fiction
   Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974)
   Opinions (1975)
   Palm Sunday (1981)
   Fates Worse than Death (1982)
   Like Shaking Hands with God (1999) (with Lee Stringer)
   God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
   A Man Without a Country (2005)
   The Last Interview (2011) (with Tom McCartan)
   Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2012)
   If This Isn't Nice, What Is? (2013)
   We Are What We Pretend to Be (2013)
   Pity the Reader (2019) (with Suzanne McConnell)
   Love, Kurt (2020) (with Edith Vonnegut)
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Omnibus editions
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Anthologies containing stories by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
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Short stories
Adam
All the King's Horses
D.P.
Deer in the Works
Epicac
The Euphio Question
The Foster Portfolio
Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son
The Hyannis Port Story
The Kid Nobody Could Handle
The Lie
Long Walk to Forever
The Manned Missiles
Miss Temptation
More Stately Mansions
New Dictionary
Next Door
Report on the Barnhouse Effect
Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog
Where I Live
Who Am I This Time?
Unready to Wear (1953)
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1954)
Harrison Bergeron (1961)
2 B R 0 2 B [short story] (1962)
Welcome to the Monkey House [short story] (1968)
The Big Space Fuck (1972)


Awards
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1960) : The Sirens of Titan
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1964) : Cat's Cradle
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1970) : Slaughterhouse-Five
Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1970) : Slaughterhouse-Five
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (1986) : Galapagos
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1997) : Timequake


Kurt Vonnegut Jr recommends
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Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983)
Breece D'J Pancake
"The best, most sincere writer I've ever read."
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One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)
(Travis McGee, book 8)
John D MacDonald
"To diggers a thousand years from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."
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Some of Your Blood (1961)
Theodore Sturgeon
"A master storyteller certain to fascinate."

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