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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

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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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s books

Average rating: 4.07 · 3,043,929 ratings · 121,490 reviews · 619 distinct works • Similar authors

	Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,395,991 ratings — published 1969 — 385 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 — 412,342 ratings — published 1963 — 212 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 4.07 avg rating — 265,677 ratings — published 1973 — 233 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 — 145,996 ratings — published 1959 — 222 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 4.23 avg rating — 97,602 ratings — published 1961 — 189 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 — 83,409 ratings — published 1985 — 158 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 3.96 avg rating — 68,814 ratings — published 1965 — 164 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 — 61,871 ratings — published 1968 — 140 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 3.90 avg rating — 58,232 ratings — published 1952 — 197 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 4.09 avg rating — 46,987 ratings — published 2005 — 97 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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December 2014 New School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our December 2014 New School Classics group read?

1963, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 288 pages

33 votes, 21.0%

1930, As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 267 pages

18 votes, 11.5%

1973, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, 302 pages

16 votes, 10.2%

1902, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, 224 pages

15 votes, 9.6%

1981, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages

14 votes, 8.9%

1944, The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham, 314 pages

13 votes, 8.3%

1932, Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages

12 votes, 7.6%

1940, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, 368 pages

12 votes, 7.6%

1918, My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 232 pages

10 votes, 6.4%

1990, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett, 413 pages

10 votes, 6.4%

1940, Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, 320 pages

2 votes, 1.3%

1961, A House for Mr Biswas by V.S. Naipaul, 623 pages

1 vote, 0.6%

1992, Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth, 630 pages

1 vote, 0.6%

157 total votes

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