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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


Born
in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States
November 11, 1922

Died
April 11, 2007

Website

Genre
Science Fiction

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


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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4.07 avg rating — 254,398 ratings — published 1973 — 218 editions
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4.15 avg rating — 136,549 ratings — published 1959 — 216 editions
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4.22 avg rating — 91,687 ratings — published 1961 — 173 editions
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“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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February Revisit the Shelf classic Poll

1813, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 279 pages
 
  12 votes, 24.0%

1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages
 
  12 votes, 24.0%

 
  6 votes, 12.0%

1938, Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, 380 pages
 
  5 votes, 10.0%

1969, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 215 pages
 
  4 votes, 8.0%

1929, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 293 pages
 
  4 votes, 8.0%

 
  4 votes, 8.0%

1980, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages
 
  3 votes, 6.0%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

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