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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Born: November 10 1922

Died: 1010 04 20072007

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Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.

He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He 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. He attributed his unadorned writing style to his reporting work.

His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge, and in particular his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. This event would also form the core of his most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five, the book which would make him a millionaire. This acerbic 200-page book is what most people mean when they describe a work as "Vonnegutian" in scope.

Vonnegut was a self-proclaimed humanist and socialist and a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The novelist is known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five , Cat's Cradle , and Breakfast of Champions

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Books from Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Slaughterhouse-Five

Cat's Cradle

The Sirens of Titan

Galápagos

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

A Man Without a Country

Timequake

Slaughterhouse-Five

Harrison Bergeron

2BR02B

Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade

The Joke's Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson

Fates Worse Than Death

The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity

The Man with the Golden Arm

The Flying Sorcerers: More Comic Tales of Fantasy

Breakfast of Champions

Sucker's Portfolio

Hocus Pocus

Letters