Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

Howard

Kurt Vonnegut’s Indianapolis: A Writer’s Roots

Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...

Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist

Never Down

Breakfast of Champions

Mother Night

The Painted Boy

New Nightmares

Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House

The Civil War

Back to School

Kurt Vonnegut: So It Goes

Brooklyn Bridge

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Self-Portrait

Faraway Eyes

God Bless You, Mr Rosewater

2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be

Vonnegut's Cats Cradle

The Man from Bagombo

2081

Sicko

Harrison Bergeron

Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier

A Long Walk To Forever

Slapstick of Another Kind

Who Am I This Time?

Deer in the Works

Daisy Petal Game

Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love

Slaughterhouse-Five

Between Time and Timbuktu

Happy Birthday, Wanda June

General Electric Theater

Kurt Vonnegut ( VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further works have been published since his death.
Born and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut attended Cornell University, but withdrew in January 1943 and enlisted in the U.S. Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden, where he survived the Allied bombing of the city in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. After the war, he married Jane Marie Cox. He and his wife both attended the University of Chicago while he worked as a night reporter for the City News Bureau.
Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952. It received positive reviews yet sold poorly. In the nearly 20 years that followed, several well regarded novels were published, including The Sirens of Titan (1959) and Cat's Cradle (1963), both of which were nominated for the Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel of the year. His short-story collection, Welcome to the Monkey House, was published in 1968. 
Vonnegut's breakthrough was his commercially and critically successful sixth novel, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). Its anti-war sentiment resonated with its readers amid the Vietnam War, and its reviews were generally positive. It rose to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list and made Vonnegut famous. Later in his career, Vonnegut published autobiographical essays and short-story collections such as Fates Worse Than Death (1991) and A Man Without a Country (2005). He has been hailed for his darkly humorous commentary on American society. His son Mark published a compilation of his work, Armageddon in Retrospect, in 2008. In 2017, Seven Stories Press published Complete Stories, a collection of Vonnegut's short fiction.



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