1. Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Kurt Vonnegut was born to fourthgeneration German-American parents, son and grandson of architects in the Indianapolis firm Vonnegut Bohn, on Armistice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr Born November 11 Indianapolis, Indiana U.S. Died April 11 New York New York , U.S. Occupation Novelist, Essayist Nationality United States Writing period Genres Literary fiction Satire Black comedy ... Science Fiction Debut works Player Piano (novel) Report on the Barnhouse Effect (short story) Influences Louis-Ferdinand C©line Joseph Heller William March Mark Twain ... Powers Hapgood Influenced Douglas Adams Bill Bryson Paul Auster T. Coraghessan Boyle ... Chris Bachelder Website vonnegut.com Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. November 11 April 11 pronounced /ˈvɒnəgət/ ) was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire black comedy , and science fiction , such as Slaughterhouse-Five Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions Contents Life Early years World War II and the firebombing of Dresden Post-war career ... edit Life edit Early years Kurt Vonnegut was born to fourth-generation German-American Armistice Day As a student at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis Vonnegut worked on the nation's first daily high school newspaper

2. Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. s best known work is SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (1969), which was based on his experiences in Dresden, Germany, where he was a prisonerof-war at http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vonnegut.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) American author noted for his pessimistic and satirical novels. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s best known work is SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (1969), which was based on his experiences in Dresden, Germany, where he was a prisoner-of-war at the destruction of the town in 1945. Vonnegut used fantasy and science fiction to examine the horrors and absurdities of 20th century civilization. His constant concern about the effects of technology on humanity led some critics to consider him a science fiction writer, but the author himself rejected this label. '"You know - we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that the wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God - " I said to myself, "it's the Children's Crusade."' (from Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born in Indianapolis. His father, Kurt Sr., was a architect. In GALÁPAGOS (1985) Vonnegut wrote: "When I got to be sixteen, though, I myself had arrived at the conclusion my mother and the neighbors had reached so long ago: that my father was a repellent failure, his work appearing only in the most disreputable publications, which paid him almost nothing. He was an insult to life itself, I thought, when he went on doing nothing with it but writing and smoking all the time - and I mean all the time." For the ten years before World War II Vonnegut's father was almost constantly unemployed, and anti-German feelings and cultural prejudices were later seen in Vonnegut's novel SLAPSTICK (1976).

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Kurt Vonnegut From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules — and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. ) was an American novelist known for works blending satire black comedy , and science fiction See also: Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse-Five Timequake Contents Sourced Player Piano (1952) The Sirens of Titan (1959) Mother Night (1961) ... edit Sourced I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival. I sometimes wondered what the use of any of the arts was. The best thing I could come up with was what I call the canary in the coal mine theory of the arts. This theory says that artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are super-sensitive. They keel over like canaries in poison coal mines long before more robust types realize that there is any danger whatsoever. "Physicist, Purge Thyself" in the

4. Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., b. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 11, 1922, combines science fiction, social satire, and black comedy in his novels, which won a wide http://www.levity.com/corduroy/vonnegut.htm

Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. , b. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 11, 1922, combines science fiction, social satire, and black comedy in his novels, which won a wide following during the 1960s. Vonnegut's themes spring from his contemplation of 20th-century horrors: dehumanization in a technological society in Player Piano (1952) and Cat's Cradle (1963), and the random destructiveness of modern war in Slaughterhouse-Five (1969; film, 1972). More recent works include Galapagos Bluebeard (1987), and the autobiographical Fates Worse than Death (1991). Although his work has been criticized as simplistic, it has equally often been praised for its comic creativity. Bibliography: Klinkowitz, J., Kurt Vonnegut (1982); Merrill, R., Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut (1989); Morse, D., Kurt Vonnegut (1991; repr. 1992); Schatt, S., Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Homepages, Biographies, Bibliographies Kurt Vonnegut Web More Vonnegut Links The alt.books.kurt-vonnegut FAQ Kevin Boon's Vonnegut homepage with bibliography ... A bibliography (.se) Vonnegut at BDD Online Newsgroup Newsgroup: alt.books.kurt-vonnegut

5. Kurt Vonnegut On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Also known as KURT Vonnegurt Jr., Kurt Vonnegut Jr., vonnegut kurt jr., Kurt Vonnegut, There are 467 conversations about Kurt Vonnegut s books. http://www.librarything.com/author/vonnegutkurt

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... add a picture Author: Kurt Vonnegut Also known as: KURT Vonnegurt Jr. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. vonnegut kurt jr. Kurt Vonnegut ... K. Vonnrgut Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Kurt Vonnegut combine/separate works Slaughterhouse-five 9619 copies, 83 reviews Cat's cradle 5235 copies, 53 reviews 4277 copies, 34 reviews The sirens of Titan 2301 copies, 20 reviews 2114 copies, 13 reviews Gal¡pagos : a novel 1991 copies, 7 reviews Player piano 1720 copies, 19 reviews Mother night 1697 copies, 8 reviews Timequake 1686 copies, 11 reviews Hocus pocus 1562 copies, 7 reviews 1545 copies, 3 reviews A man without a country 1344 copies, 30 reviews Slapstick : or, Lonesome no more! : a novel 1273 copies, 7 reviews Bluebeard : a novel 1233 copies, 7 reviews Jailbird : a novel 1087 copies, 5 reviews see all 120 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars 2 stars 2.5 stars 3 stars 3.5 stars 4 stars 4.5 stars

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document.write(currentdate); Quote DB Authors Categories Speeches ... Add Quotes to Your Site - Quote Generator add quote of the day random quotes or by topic (e.g. funny quotes Quote DB Authors :: Kurt Vonnegut Rate this Author 1 (worst) 5 (avg) 10 (best) Quote Rating Average (90%) Author Rating (82%) Groups: Writers Kurt Vonnegut Quotes: (ranking: 621st) Search Kurt Vonnegut's quotes Sponsored Links Quote Category Rating "Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful." ... Reading Browse quotes by topic Miscellaneous Politics Reading Education ... Privacy

7. FileRoom.org - Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five Kurt Vonnegut s Slaughterhouse Five Kurt vonnegut kurt Vonnegut s novel, Slaughterhouse Five, was created from his experiences during WW II. http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/273

Name: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five Date: Location: North America Subject Political/Economic/Social Opinion Medium Literature Artist : Kurt Vonnegut Confronting Bodies : Drake Board of Education Date of Action : November 7,1973 Specific Location : Location North Dakota, Drake Description of Artwork : Kurt Vonnegut's novel, Slaughterhouse Five, was created from his experiences during WW II. The novel takes place during "..what he believes to have been 11 days, he wandered around as an infantry scout, improvising his own tactics (all his training had been in artillery), not knowing where the lines were or whether there were any lines, and living with death in a cartoonic embrace. As a groggy war prisoner he witnessed the bombing of Dresden, "a terrible thing for the son of an architect to see." (Wilford Sheed, The Now Generation Knew Him When, 9-12-69, pg. C9) Description of Incident : Bruce Severy,an English teacher at Drake High School in North Dakota ordered Slaughterhouse Five for one of his classes. "On 7 November (1973), Mrs. Sheldon Summers, school custodian, burned 32 copies of the book because the board members had decided that it was pornographic."( Modern Fiction Studies,Kurt Vonnegut on Censorship and Moral Values, Vol. 26. Iss. 4. 1981, pg. 683) Results of Incident : The Board of Education did not reconsider its actions.

8. Advice To Writers By Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut. Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in http://www.peterstekel.com/PDF-HTML/Kurt Vonnegut advice to writers.htm

How to Write With Style by Kurt Vonnegut Newspaper reporters and technical writers are trained to reveal almost nothing about themselves in their writings. This makes them freaks in the world of writers, since almost all of the other ink-stained wretches in that world reveal a lot about themselves to readers. We call these revelations, accidental and intentional, elements of style. These revelations tell us as readers what sort of person it is with whom we are spending time. Does the writer sound ignorant or informed, stupid or bright, crooked or honest, humorless or playful - ? And on and on. Why should you examine your writing style with the idea of improving it? Do so as a mark of respect for your readers, whatever you're writing. If you scribble your thoughts any which way, your readers will surely feel that you care nothing about them. They will mark you down as an egomaniac or a chowderhead - or, worse, they will stop reading you. The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not. Don't you yourself like or dislike writers mainly for what they choose to show you or make you think about? Did you ever admire an emptyheaded writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

9. Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut, Junior (born November 11, 1922) is an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. His novels include Player Piano, http://contemporarylit.about.com/cs/authors/p/vonnegut.htm

zGCID=" test0" zGCID=" test0 test4" zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') You are here: About Entertainment Contemporary Literature Contemporary Literature ... Submit to Digg Suggested Reading A Man Without a Country Suggested Reading U Authors V Authors W Authors Elsewhere on the Web Kurt Vonnegut's Website Most Popular Dramatic Irony What is Poetry? Poetry A Thousand Splendid Suns ... The Game Kurt Vonnegut From Mark Flanagan Your Guide to Contemporary Literature FREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now! Kurt Vonnegut Biography: Kurt Vonnegut, born in 1922 in Indianapolis, IN, attended Cornell University before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, where as a prisoner of war he witnessed the bombing of Dresden, Germany, an event which became the basis for his famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five. He died on April 11, 2007. After World War II, Vonnegut got married, studied Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and worked as a police reporter for the Chicago News Bureau. He later worked as a publicist for General Electric in Schenectady, NY before leaving to become a full time writer. Vonnegut taught creative writing at Harvard in 1970, received a Master's degree from the University of Chicago for Cat's Cradle in 1971 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature by Hobart and William Smith College in 1974.

10. Kurt Vonnegut's Commencement Address At MIT - The Speech Vonnegut Never Delivere Kurt Vonnegut s Commencement Address at MIT Wear sunscreen http://www.wesselenyi.com/speech.htm

in Hungarian Last updated on 23 January 2006 Andrea Wesselenyi Journalist Teleworker Webmaster Webmarketer ... CONTACT Kurt Vonnegut's Commencement Address at MIT Please note: the following speech has spread all over the Internet as "Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address at MIT". The truth is that Vonnegut had never delivered this address. How did this happen? If you are interested, just click and read my article about this Vonnegut story "Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

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12. KURT VONNEGUT: His Life & Work Displayed In A Site Called ''The Vonnegut Web'' kurt vonnegut copius background details, critical response, highlights from selected novels, etc. Stuff on all matters vonnegut. http://www.vonnegutweb.com/

Kurt Vonnegut Welcome to the most expansive, yet wholly unauthorized, Kurt Vonnegut site in the cosmos. Here you'll find pages on each of his novels as well as all manner of detail on the man's life and work. Book Pages: Player Piano Cat's Cradle Welcome to the Monkey House Slaughterhouse-Five ... Fates Worse than Death Administratia: Write the Webczar More Web Sites: Other sites by Chris: Whyaduck Productions Which Circle? Campus Ministry Comix Its Vonnegut Infomania! Archives Vonnegut writings from forgotten places Chronology Mapping Vonnegut's life and texts Commencement Addresses kurt.vonnegut@mit.edu? Complete Writings Novels, short story collections, essays, plays, adaptations Critical Bibliography Dramatic Works Details on Happy Birthday, Wanda June L'Histoire du Soldat and more Education The higher education of Kurt Vonnegut Family Background Details on brother Bernard, uncle Alex, wife Jill Krementz, son Mark, and more

13. Marek Vit's Kurt Vonnegut Corner A vast site dedicated utterly to kurt vonnegut and his works. It contains kurt vonnegut Essay Collection, Quote Collection, Kilgore Trout SciFi Collection, http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/4953/vonn.html

Check out the new Vonnegutsy novel by Mark Swartz Mark Swartz's second novel is set in Chicago in the year 2020. Think of it as an inverted Cat's Cradle . This time, water itself or something like it is the seed of doom, and ICE-9 may be the only salvation... Read more about the novel. Maintained by Marek Vit A Website for Czech students of English Last modification of this site: January 2, 2007 You are the visitor no. to this page since December 4, 1996

14. Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught The Imagination Of His Age, Is Dead At 84 - N kurt vonnegut’s darkly comic novels became classics of the counterculture, making him a literary idol to students in the 1960s and ’70s. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html

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15. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Writer Kurt Vonnegut Dies At 84 Author kurt vonnegut, best known for his 1969 novel Slaughterhouse Five, dies at the age of 84. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6547399.stm

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16. Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - The Quotations Page kurt vonnegut; Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. kurt vonnegut, Cold Turkey , In These Times, May 10, 2004 http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Kurt_Vonnegut/

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007) US novelist [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 32 total Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. Kurt Vonnegut - More quotations on: [ Criticism I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Kurt Vonnegut If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind. Kurt Vonnegut Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. Kurt Vonnegut Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information. Kurt Vonnegut Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!

17. Cold Turkey -- In These Times kurt vonnegut is a legendary author, WWII veteran, humanist, artist, smoker and In These Times senior editor. His classic works include SlaughterhouseFive, http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/cold_turkey/

@import url(/site?css=include/css_content/); Skip navigation. Make a tax-deductible contribution today and get exclusive Vonnegut gear! donate newsletter store members ... links Features > May 10, 2004 Cold Turkey By Kurt Vonnegut Tags politics Share Digg del.icio.us Reddit Newsvine Many years ago, I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought and often died for that dream during the Second World War, when there was no peace. When you get to my age, if you get to my age, which is 81, and if you have reproduced, you will find yourself asking your own children, who are themselves middle-aged, what life is all about. I have seven kids, four of them adopted. Many of you reading this are probably the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government. I put my big question about life to my biological son Mark. Mark is a pediatrician, and author of a memoir

18. Kurt Vonnegut American author kurt vonnegut combines satiric social commentary and black comedy with surrealist and science fictional elements. http://www.nndb.com/people/928/000022862/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Kurt Vonnegut AKA Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Born: 11-Nov Birthplace: Indianapolis, IN Died: 11-Apr Location of death: Manhattan, NY Cause of death: Accident - Fall Gender: Male Religion: Atheist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States Executive summary: Slaughterhouse Five Military service: US Army (1943-45) American author Kurt Vonnegut combines satiric social commentary and black comedy with surrealist and science fictional elements. His best known works are Player Piano Cat's Cradle Slaughterhouse-Five (1969; film, 1972), and Breakfast of Champions (1973). Known for his outspoken political opinions, Vonnegut has also produced a host of essays, articles, and short stories. A number of his works have been translated into television or film, and he has graced a few of these with cameo appearances. Vonnegut is also a graphic artist, and has illustrated a number of his works himself. Common themes in Vonnegut's work include the dehumanization wrought by technology, as well as by bureaucracy and media indoctrination. Sexuality and violence, and the myths that spring up around them, are also common themes. While Vonnegut's work has sometimes been criticized for flouting accepted narrative conventions, for "sophomoric simplicity", and for vulgarity, there is no mistaking the passion of his underlying arguments for pacifism, for socialist equality, and most of all for the need for common decency. Yet what separates Vonnegut from other social commentators and political do-gooders is that he doesn't seem compelled to elevate himself above the rest of humanity. He portrays himself, as he does nearly everyone else (hero or villain): as a dumb schmuck struggling to do his best, despite mispatched mental programming and an unsteady world.

19. 15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will | The A.V. The actual advice here is technically a quote from kurt vonnegut s good uncle Alex, but vonnegut was nice enough to pass it on at speeches and in A Man http://www.avclub.com/content/node/60935

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20. Author Kurt Vonnegut Dies At 84 - CNN.com kurt vonnegut, whose absurdist visions and cynical outlook infused such books as SlaughterhouseFive and Cat s Cradle, has died. He was 84. http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/obit.vonnegut/index.html

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