21. Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 - TIME Appreciation Disillusioned but sincere, the author of SlaughterhouseFive and other modern classics mixed literature with science fiction long before it http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1609650,00.html

var s_account="timecom"; Time.com CNN.com Search Archive Home U.S. The Page Main ... Pictures of the Week Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007 Thursday, Apr. 12, 2007 By LEV GROSSMAN Kurt Vonnegut Random House / Reuters Article Tools Print Email Reprints Sphere addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'timecom'; RSS The proper length for an obituary for Kurt Vonnegut is three words: "So it goes." This one will do what Vonnegut never did, which is go on too long. Related Articles Sphere.Inline.search('sphereSideBar','http://time.com/') tiiQuigoWriteAd(755776, 1290759, 180, 200, -1); "So it goes" is a phrase from Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade. Rolling Stone Perhaps because he began his writing career fully disillusioned, Vonnegut's view of the world changed very little over his five decades as an author. His first novel, Player Piano Slaughterhouse-Five , the story of one Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes "unstuck in time": Billy experiences the events of his life in random order, including his own birth and his own death. Understandably, this imbues him with a weird, almost redemptive fatalism, which is echoed by the narrator, who is Vonnegut himself. "There would always be wars," he writes, "they were as easy to stop as glaciers... And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death." Man Without a Country

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My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) Kurt Vonnegut One of the 20th century's great American pacifists was born on Armistice Day. Born in Indianapolis on November 11, 1922, Kurt Vonnegut entered a well-to-do family that was hit very hard by the Depression. Vonnegut went to public high school, unlike his two older siblings, and there gained early writing experience writing for the high school's daily paper. He enrolled at Cornell University in 1940 and, under pressure from his father and older brother, studied chemistry and biology. He had little real love for the subjects, and his performance was poor. He did, however, enjoy working for the Cornell Daily Sun . In 1942, Vonnegut left Cornell as the university was preparing to ask him to leave due to poor academic performance. He enrolled at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie-Mellon) in 1943. He studied there only briefly before enlisting in the U.S. Army. His mother killed herself in May 1944. On December 14, 1944, Vonnegut was captured in the Battle of the Bulge. He was held as a POW in Dresden, a beautiful German city with no major industries or military presence. The bombing of Dresden was unexpected. Vonnegut and the other POWs were some of the only survivors. They waited out the bombing in a meat cellar deep under the slaughterhouse.

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Kurt Vonnegut New York State Author, 2001-2003 "It is a most agreeable honor, with my 78th birthday only a few days away, that New York State should declare so publicly that I, although born in Indianapolis, am one of its own. And it is a fact that most of my published works have been created within its borders, beginning with columns I wrote for The Cornell Daily Sun , in Ithaca, where I was a member of the class of 1944. Yes, and after my service in World War Two I went to work as a publicity man for General Electric in Schenectady, and was also a volunteer fireman in the nearby village of Alplaus. GE was the inspiration for my first novel, Player Piano , and Alplaus for my fifth, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater . . . .I have in fact followed in the footsteps of two other native Indiana writers Booth Tarkington and Theodore Dreiser, in coming to New York for the dynamic companionship of the nearly countless world-class artists working here." - KV K urt V onnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on November 11, 1922. After attending Cornell University from 1941-43 Vonnegut served in World War II and was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. As a prisoner of war, he survived the fire bombing of Dresden by Allied forces on 13 February, 1945 in an underground meat-storage cellar. When he emerged the next morning, Vonnegut was put to work pulling corpses from the ruins of the desolated city once known as "the Venice of the North." In one night the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden killed more people than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, more than 135,000 in all. Vonnegut's first-hand experiences of this, one of the darkest episodes in human history, would later provide the basis for his most influential work

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troubling.info people home contact Kurt Vonnegut Eight rules for writing fiction: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two things reveal character or advance the action. 5. Start as close to the end as possible. 6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of. 7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. 8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages. Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut

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Boing Boing Home Gadgets TV Suggest a Link ... Joel Kurt Vonnegut, RIP Posted by Cory Doctorow, April 11, 2007 9:29 PM permalink Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century, is dead. Oh, shit. Vonnegut wrote 14 novels. He had fallen several weeks ago and received brain injuries. He was 84. My first Vonnegut was Breakfast of Champions . I'd never read anything like it. It was a novel that was so easy , everything just happening , one thing after another. The book almost read itself. That was his gift, I think: to tell you things that were hard to hear, without you even noticing it. Like a nurse who can slide a needle into your vein without making you wince. Vonnegut has haunted me, delighted me, and made me sad. I still think of the world in terms of Wampeters, Foma, and Karasses, the Boknonism ideas set out in Cat's Cradle . I still think that "Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time," may be the best opening line of any novel and that the novel, Slaughterhouse 5 lives up to that line. In 1944 he was shipped to Europe with the 106th Infantry Division and shortly saw combat in the Battle of the Bulge. With his unit nearly destroyed, he wandered behind enemy lines for several days until he was captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp near Dresden, the architectural jewel of Germany.

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Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY! Home Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities Authors: A B C D ... Z Web brainyquote.com Kurt Vonnegut Quotes Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: November 11 Date of Death: April 11 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Kurt Vonnegut Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller ... Susan Sontag About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. Kurt Vonnegut All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true. Kurt Vonnegut 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 Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. Kurt Vonnegut Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

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Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut (1961) I'd like you to read this famous story and think about whether Nietzsche wasn't on to something when he criticized the naive idea of human equality. THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General. Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April, for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away. It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains. George and Hazel were watching television. There were tears on Hazel’s cheeks, but she’d forgotten for the moment what they were about.

36. Kurt Vonnegut | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited Books Its author was kurt vonnegut, who has died aged 84, following brain injuries incurred several weeks ago in a fall. vonnegut, who wrote 14 novels, http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2055622,00.html

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E-mail this Print this Advanced search Home ... Questionable Quotes > Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Claim: In 1997, Kurt Vonnegut gave an unusual commencement address at MIT. Status: False. Legend: According to a text circulating all over the Internet, Kurt Vonnegut was the 1997 commencement speaker at MIT. His speech supposedly began as follows: 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. Origins: Kurt Vonnegut was not the 1997 commencement speaker at MIT. That honor went to Kofi Annan , secretary-general of the United Nations. The speech attributed to Vonnegut was actually a 1 June 1997 column by Chicago Tribune writer Mary Schmich. As with many other good bits of writing and speech, the attachment of a famous name to the works brings them to the public's attention in a way they could otherwise not have achieved.

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39. Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 84; Keen Observer Of Humankind - Washingtonpost.com kurt vonnegut Jr., 84, a prolific novelist and short story writer who relied on bitter humor and a whimsical sense of the absurd to engage the pain and http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041200164.

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'metro/obituaries'; Hello Change Preferences Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Pets SEARCH: washingtonpost.com Web Search Archives washingtonpost.com Metro Obituaries ... E-Mail This Article E-mail Newsletters View a Sample and Sign Up Breaking News Alerts Manage Your Newsletters Obituaries Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 84; Keen Observer of Humankind By Joe Holley Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 13, 2007; Page B07 Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 84, a prolific novelist and short story writer who relied on bitter humor and a whimsical sense of the absurd to engage the pain and suffering of war, the innate cruelty of humankind and the tragic nature of existence, died April 11 in a Manhattan hospital. He had suffered irreversible brain injuries after a recent fall at his home in Manhattan, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz. Photos Kurt Vonnegut, 1922 to 2007 Best-selling author and revered satirist Kurt Vonnegut dies at the age of 84 after complications from a fall in his home several weeks ago. Details From Style: Bob Thompson's 2005 interview with Vonnegut where the author asserts that the subject of all great books is "what a bummer it is to be a human being."

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Skip navigation Web MSNBC Entertainment Gossip Celebrities Television ... Comics, Sudoku Categories U.S. news World news Politics Business ... Local news Browse Video Photos Community Today Show ... MSNBC TV Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84 Author of at least 19 novels, including ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’ ‘Cat’s Cradle’ FREE VIDEO Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies April 12: Satirical novelist, Kurt Vonnegut, died following brain injuries he suffered from a fall. He was 84. MSNBC.com's Dara Brown highlights his life. MSNBC.com NEW YORK - In books such as “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle,” and “Hocus Pocus,” Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound. Vonnegut, regarded by many critics as a key influence in shaping 20th-century American literature, died Wednesday at 84. He had suffered brain injuries after a recent fall at his Manhattan home, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz. In a statement, Norman Mailer hailed Vonnegut as “a marvelous writer with a style that remained undeniably and imperturbably his own. ... I would salute him — our own Mark Twain.” “He was sort of like nobody else,” said another fellow author, Gore Vidal. “Kurt was never dull.”

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