Kurt Vonnegut

Born

in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States

November 11, 1922

Died

April 11, 2007

Website

http://www.vonnegut.com/

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories, Science Fiction

Influences

Breece D'J Pancake, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Joseph Heller, William Mar ...more

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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 st ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 1,781,181 ratings · 51,865 reviews · 276 distinct works · Similar authors

	Slaughterhouse-Five 4.04 avg rating — 797,726 ratings — published 1969 — 235 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cat's Cradle 4.18 avg rating — 246,307 ratings — published 1963 — 141 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breakfast of Champions 4.09 avg rating — 172,454 ratings — published 1973 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sirens of Titan 4.15 avg rating — 72,861 ratings — published 1959 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Night 4.19 avg rating — 47,908 ratings — published 1961 — 91 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Galápagos 3.87 avg rating — 49,232 ratings — published 1985 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 3.93 avg rating — 40,889 ratings — published 1965 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welcome to the Monkey House 4.13 avg rating — 38,856 ratings — published 1968 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Player Piano 3.84 avg rating — 33,200 ratings — published 1952 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Man Without a Country 4.06 avg rating — 29,556 ratings — published 2005 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: humour, telekinetics

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“I want to stand 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, Player Piano

tags: writer-s-life

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APRIL SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which two books will go on to the run-off poll for the April 2014 SF Book-of-the-month.

Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan

17 votes, 21.8%

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

15 votes, 19.2%

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

15 votes, 19.2%

Love Minus Eighty by Will McIntosh

9 votes, 11.5%

The Dervish House by Ian McDonald

6 votes, 7.7%

Gridlinked by Neal Asher

5 votes, 6.4%

The Quiet Invasion by Sarah Zettel

5 votes, 6.4%

State of Wonder by Ann Patchett

4 votes, 5.1%

A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock

2 votes, 2.6%

78 total votes

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