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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Born

in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States

November 11, 1922

Died

April 11, 2007

Website

http://www.vonnegut.com/

Genre

Science Fiction, Nonfiction

Influences

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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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	Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,508,242 ratings — published 1969 — 420 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 4.15 avg rating — 444,084 ratings — published 1963 — 231 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 4.06 avg rating — 283,642 ratings — published 1973 — 192 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 — 161,419 ratings — published 1959 — 229 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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	Galápagos 3.87 avg rating — 90,269 ratings — published 1985 — 169 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 3.97 avg rating — 73,822 ratings — published 1965 — 118 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 — 65,362 ratings — published 1968 — 145 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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1958, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 209 pages

10 votes, 18.5%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages

9 votes, 16.7%

1957, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 304 pages

7 votes, 13.0%

1934, Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie, 322 pages

6 votes, 11.1%

1997, The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 321 pages

5 votes, 9.3%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

5 votes, 9.3%

1905, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, 351 pages

4 votes, 7.4%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages

2 votes, 3.7%

1981, The Wave by Morton Rhue, 138 pages

2 votes, 3.7%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

2 votes, 3.7%

1927, Ashenden by W. Somerset Maugham, 326 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1969, Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene, 254 pages

1 vote, 1.9%

1955, Requiem for a Wren by Nevil Shute, 285 pages

0 votes, 0.0%

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