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Kurt Vonnegut

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Also known as Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

American author (1922–2007)

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Kurt Vonnegut was a male writer from the United States whose work period spanned from 1950 until his death in 2007. He is associated with genres including satire, comedy, science fiction, and spoken word. Vonnegut also used the pseudonym Mark Harvey. His notable works include *Slaughterhouse-Five*, *As Sereias de Titã*, and *Hoḳus poḳus*. He is recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

Vonnegut’s literary output includes numerous publications, with some sources listing 457 works and others citing five. He has been referenced by 1,174 other encyclopedia articles. His writings have attracted significant attention, with recorded playcounts and listener numbers indicating ongoing engagement. Vonnegut is often compared to authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Douglas Adams, and David Sedaris. He was born on November 11, 1922, and died on April 11, 2007.

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Person · Open Library

Born
11 November 1922
Died
11 April 2007
Works
457

Top works

  • As Sereias de Titã
  • Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Hoḳus poḳus
  • Connoisseur's Science Fiction
  • Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1922-11-11
Active to
2007-04-11
has german audiobooks
Official siteDiscogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
8,367
Total plays
90,171

Tags

writerspoken wordsatirecomedyAudiobook

Similar artists

Ernest HemingwayAldous HuxleyDavid SedarisIsaac AsimovDouglas Adams

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was a 20th-century American writer. His works such as Cat's Cradle (1963), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), and Breakfast of Champions (1973) blend satire, gallows humor, and science fiction. As a citizen he was a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union and a critical leftist intellectual. He was known for his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the American Humanist Association. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Kurt+Vonnegut">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The PHQ-9

    · 2001 · cited 39,451x

  2. A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder

    · 2006 · cited 28,910x

  3. Multilayer feedforward networks are universal approximators

    · 1989 · cited 18,293x

  4. Bioconductor: open software development for computational biology and bioinformatics

    · 2004 · cited 10,286x

  5. A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 9,260x

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Quotes

  • “This speech will be very short. After all, you asked me to come here — I didn't ask you.”
  • “The thing I just wrote [Slaughterhouse Five] is my masterpiece. The rest of it is going to be crap from now on.”
  • “Speaking is more profitable than writing, so I want to thank you for the cushy berth here.”
  • “If you are going to be a writer, you must be paranoid. The thing is, in the arts if you don't overreact, you fall asleep.”
  • “The big advantage of being a chemistry major was the freedom to be tasteless.”
  • “There is a similarity between writers and SDS [Students for a Democratic Society, a radical left-wing group]: Plenty of paranoia, but no ideas.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Kurt
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Indianapolis
Place of death
New York City
Sibling
Bernard Vonnegut
Occupation
professor
Employer
University of Iowa
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
American English
Religion
social anarchism
Notable work
Breakfast of Champions
Hair colour
brown hair
Conflict
World War II
Military branch
United States Army
Military rank
Private first class
Official website
www.vonnegut.com
Image
Kurt Vonnegut by Bernard Gotfryd (1965).jpg
Height
189
Residence
Chicago
Significant event
Bombing of Dresden
Political ideology
socialism
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Commons category
Kurt Vonnegut
handedness
left-handedness
facial hair
moustache
manner of death
accidental death
start of work period
1950-00-00
date of birth
1922-11-11
date of death
2007-04-11
topic's main category
Category:Kurt Vonnegut
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
member of
Authors Guild
IPA transcription
kɝt ˈvɒnɨɡət
name in native language
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
topic has template
Template:Kurt Vonnegut
writing language
American English
influenced by
H. L. Mencken
social media followers
217975
P12674
421 Zähringia
military unit
106th Infantry Division
Commons Creator page
Kurt Vonnegut
end of work period
2007-04-11
birth name
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
pseudonym
Mark Harvey
ethnic group
German Americans
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Encyclopedic overview

Kurt Vonnegut (/ˈvɒnəɡət/ 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 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.

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