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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


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

Died
April 11, 2007

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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
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Slaughterhouse-Five

4.10 avg rating — 1,419,508 ratings — published 1969 — 386 editions
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Cat’s Cradle

4.15 avg rating — 419,699 ratings — published 1963 — 216 editions
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Breakfast of Champions

4.07 avg rating — 270,231 ratings — published 1973 — 232 editions
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The Sirens of Titan

4.15 avg rating — 149,592 ratings — published 1959 — 217 editions
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Mother Night

4.23 avg rating — 99,717 ratings — published 1961 — 189 editions
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Galápagos

3.87 avg rating — 84,958 ratings — published 1985 — 158 editions
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God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

3.96 avg rating — 69,850 ratings — published 1965 — 164 editions
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Welcome to the Monkey House

4.13 avg rating — 62,599 ratings — published 1968 — 140 editions
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Player Piano

3.90 avg rating — 59,833 ratings — published 1952 — 197 editions
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A Man Without a Country

4.09 avg rating — 47,867 ratings — published 2005 — 99 editions
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Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.  (?)
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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

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

“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

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