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data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Avañe'ẽ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnequt" title="Kurt Vonnequt – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Kurt Vonnequt" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87%D9%82%D8%AA" title="کرت وانهقت – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="کرت وانهقت" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B0%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F_%E0%A6%AD%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%97%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%9F" title="কুর্ট ভনেগাট – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="কুর্ট ভনেগাট" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%82" title="Курт Вонегут – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Курт Вонегут" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%8D%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%82" title="Курт Вонэгут – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Курт Вонэгут" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%8A%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%8A%D1%82" title="Кърт Вонегът – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Кърт Вонегът" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%82_%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82" title="Воннегут Курт – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Воннегут Курт" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target">Чӑвашла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Davvisámegiella</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%81%CF%84_%CE%92%CF%8C%CE%BD%CE%B5%CE%B3%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84" title="Κουρτ Βόνεγκατ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κουρτ Βόνεγκατ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87%E2%80%8C%DA%AF%D8%AA" title="کرت وانه‌گت – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="کرت وانه‌گت" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%BB%A4%ED%8A%B8_%EB%B3%B4%EB%8B%88%EA%B2%83" title="커트 보니것 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="커트 보니것" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BF%D5%B8%D6%82%D6%80%D5%BF_%D5%8E%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%A5%D5%A3%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BF" title="Կուրտ Վոնեգուտ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Կուրտ Վոնեգուտ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_Jr." title="Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut Jr." data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%98_%D7%95%D7%95%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%95%D7%98" title="קורט וונגוט – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="קורט וונגוט" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kapampangan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2_%E1%83%95%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%92%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98" title="კურტ ვონეგუტი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="კურტ ვონეგუტი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%82" title="Курт Воннегут – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Курт Воннегут" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%82" title="Курт Воннегут – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Курт Воннегут" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtius_Vonnegut" title="Curtius Vonnegut – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Curtius Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurts_Vonneg%C5%ABts" title="Kurts Vonnegūts – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Kurts Vonnegūts" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingua Franca Nova</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%B0%D1%82" title="Курт Вонегат – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Курт Вонегат" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%99%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2_%E1%83%95%E1%83%9D%E1%83%9C%E1%83%94%E1%83%92%E1%83%A3%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98" title="კურტ ვონეგუტი – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="კურტ ვონეგუტი" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D9%81%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D8%AA" title="كورت فونيجت – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="كورت فونيجت" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A9%E3%83%8D%E3%82%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88" title="カート・ヴォネガット – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="カート・ヴォネガット" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%9F_%E0%A8%B5%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%97%E0%A8%9F" title="ਕਰਟ ਵੋਨੇਗਟ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਕਰਟ ਵੋਨੇਗਟ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%BC_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%90%DA%AB%D9%BC" title="کرټ وانېګټ – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="کرټ وانېګټ" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Piemontèis</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%82,_%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82" title="Воннегут, Курт – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Воннегут, Курт" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sardu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ślůnski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D1%80%D1%82_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B3%D1%83%D1%82" title="Курт Вонегут – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Курт Вонегут" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut" title="Kurt Vonnegut – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Kurt Vonnegut" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" 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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Vonnegut_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Vonnegut (disambiguation)">Vonnegut (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div style="display:inline;" class="fn">Kurt Vonnegut</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Kurt_Vonnegut_by_Bernard_Gotfryd_(1965).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Vonnegut in 1965"><img alt="Vonnegut in 1965" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Kurt_Vonnegut_by_Bernard_Gotfryd_%281965%29.jpg/220px-Kurt_Vonnegut_by_Bernard_Gotfryd_%281965%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="327" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Kurt_Vonnegut_by_Bernard_Gotfryd_%281965%29.jpg/330px-Kurt_Vonnegut_by_Bernard_Gotfryd_%281965%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Kurt_Vonnegut_by_Bernard_Gotfryd_%281965%29.jpg/440px-Kurt_Vonnegut_by_Bernard_Gotfryd_%281965%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3243" data-file-height="4815" /></a><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:1.4em;">Vonnegut in 1965</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-11-11)November 11, 1922 <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a>, Indiana, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">April 11, 2007(2007-04-11) (aged 84) New York City, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role" style="line-height:1.4em;">Author</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Education</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Mellon University</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Tennessee" title="University of Tennessee">University of Tennessee</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Arts" title="Master of Arts">MA</a>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data category" style="line-height:1.4em;"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r979066050">.mw-parser-output ul.cslist,.mw-parser-output ul.sslist{margin:0;padding:0;display:inline-block;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output ul.cslist-embedded{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .cslist li,.mw-parser-output .sslist li{margin:0;padding:0 0.25em 0 0;display:inline-block}.mw-parser-output .cslist li:after{content:", "}.mw-parser-output .sslist li:after{content:"; "}.mw-parser-output .cslist li:last-child:after,.mw-parser-output .sslist li:last-child:after{content:none}</style><ul class="cslist"><li><a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">Satire</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gallows_humor" class="mw-redirect" title="Gallows humor">gallows humor</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Literary movement</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/Postmodern_literature" title="Postmodern literature">Postmodernism</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;">1951–2007</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Notable works</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle" title="Cat's Cradle">Cat's Cradle</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Jane Marie Cox</div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1945; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1971)</div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Jill_Krementz" title="Jill Krementz">Jill Krementz</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1979)</div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="line-height:1.2em; padding-right:0.65em;">Children</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r979066050"><ul class="sslist"><li>3 biological, including <a href="/wiki/Mark_Vonnegut" title="Mark Vonnegut">Mark</a> and <a href="/wiki/Edith_Vonnegut" title="Edith Vonnegut">Edith</a></li><li>4 adopted, including <a href="/wiki/Steve_Adams_(writer)" title="Steve Adams (writer)">Steve Adams</a></li></ul></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Signature</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height:1.4em;"><a href="/wiki/File:Kurt_Vonnegut_Junior.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Kurt_Vonnegut_Junior.svg/150px-Kurt_Vonnegut_Junior.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Kurt_Vonnegut_Junior.svg/225px-Kurt_Vonnegut_Junior.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Kurt_Vonnegut_Junior.svg/300px-Kurt_Vonnegut_Junior.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="320" data-file-height="170" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> Kurt Vonnegut (<a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/ˈvɒnəɡət/</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key">VON-ə-gət</a>; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satirical</a> and darkly humorous novels.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further works have been published since his death. Born and raised in <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a>, Vonnegut attended <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a>, but withdrew in January 1943 and enlisted in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a>. As part of his training, he studied <a href="/wiki/Mechanical_engineering" title="Mechanical engineering">mechanical engineering</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_University" title="Carnegie Mellon University">Carnegie Institute of Technology</a> and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tennessee" title="University of Tennessee">University of Tennessee</a>. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> and was captured by the Germans during the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a>. He was <a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war">interned</a> in <a href="/wiki/Dresden" title="Dresden">Dresden</a>, where he survived the <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden_in_World_War_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombing of Dresden in World War II">Allied bombing of the city</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> while he worked as a night reporter for the <a href="/wiki/City_News_Bureau_of_Chicago" title="City News Bureau of Chicago">City News Bureau</a>.<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> Vonnegut published his first novel, <a href="/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)" title="Player Piano (novel)">Player Piano</a>, in 1952. It received positive reviews yet sold poorly. In the nearly 20 years that followed, several well regarded novels were published, including <a href="/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan" title="The Sirens of Titan">The Sirens of Titan</a> (1959) and <a href="/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle" title="Cat's Cradle">Cat's Cradle</a> (1963), both of which were nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo Award</a> for best science fiction or fantasy novel of the year. His short-story collection, <a href="/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House" title="Welcome to the Monkey House">Welcome to the Monkey House</a>, was published in 1968. Vonnegut's breakthrough was his commercially and critically successful sixth novel, <a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</a> (1969). Its anti-war sentiment resonated with its readers amid the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, and its reviews were generally positive. It rose to the top of <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="The New York Times Best Seller list">The New York Times Best Seller list</a> and made Vonnegut famous. Later in his career, Vonnegut published autobiographical essays and short-story collections such as <a href="/wiki/Fates_Worse_Than_Death" title="Fates Worse Than Death">Fates Worse Than Death</a> (1991) and <a href="/wiki/A_Man_Without_a_Country" title="A Man Without a Country">A Man Without a Country</a> (2005). He has been hailed for his <a href="/wiki/Black_comedy" title="Black comedy">darkly humorous</a> commentary on American society. His son <a href="/wiki/Mark_Vonnegut" title="Mark Vonnegut">Mark</a> published a compilation of his work, <a href="/wiki/Armageddon_in_Retrospect" title="Armageddon in Retrospect">Armageddon in Retrospect</a>, in 2008. In 2017, <a href="/wiki/Seven_Stories_Press" title="Seven Stories Press">Seven Stories Press</a> published <a href="/wiki/Complete_Stories_(Vonnegut)" title="Complete Stories (Vonnegut)">Complete Stories</a>, a collection of Vonnegut's short fiction. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family_and_early_life">Family and early life</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Family and early life">edit</a>]</div> Vonnegut was born in <a href="/wiki/Indianapolis" title="Indianapolis">Indianapolis</a>, on November 11, 1922, the youngest of three children of <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_Sr." title="Kurt Vonnegut Sr.">Kurt Vonnegut Sr.</a> (1884–1956) and his wife Edith (1888–1944; née Lieber). His older siblings were <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Vonnegut" title="Bernard Vonnegut">Bernard</a> (1914–1997) and Alice (1917–1958). He descended from a long line of <a href="/wiki/German_Americans" title="German Americans">German Americans</a> whose immigrant ancestors settled in the United States in the mid-19th century; his paternal great-grandfather, <a href="/wiki/Clemens_Vonnegut" title="Clemens Vonnegut">Clemens Vonnegut</a>, settled in Indianapolis and founded the <a href="/wiki/Vonnegut_Hardware_Company" title="Vonnegut Hardware Company">Vonnegut Hardware Company</a>. His father and grandfather <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Vonnegut_I" title="Bernard Vonnegut I">Bernard</a> were architects; the architecture firm under Kurt Sr. designed such buildings as <a href="/wiki/Athen%C3%A6um_(Das_Deutsche_Haus)" title="Athenæum (Das Deutsche Haus)">Das Deutsche Haus</a> (now called "The Athenæum"), the Indiana headquarters of the <a href="/wiki/Bell_Telephone_Company" title="Bell Telephone Company">Bell Telephone Company</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Fletcher_Trust_Building" title="Fletcher Trust Building">Fletcher Trust Building</a>.<a href="#cite_note-BoomhowerFarrell4-5-3">[3]</a> Vonnegut's mother was born into Indianapolis's <a href="/wiki/Gilded_Age" title="Gilded Age">Gilded Age</a> high society, as her family, the Liebers, were among the wealthiest in the city based on a fortune deriving from a successful brewery.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin20022-4">[4]</a> Both of Vonnegut's parents were fluent speakers of the <a href="/wiki/German_language_in_the_United_States" title="German language in the United States">German language</a>, but pervasive <a href="/wiki/Anti-German_sentiment" title="Anti-German sentiment">anti-German sentiment</a> during and after <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> caused them to abandon <a href="/wiki/German_culture" class="mw-redirect" title="German culture">German culture</a>; many German Americans were told at the time that this was a precondition for <a href="/wiki/American_patriotism" class="mw-redirect" title="American patriotism">American patriotism</a>. Thus, they did not teach Vonnegut to speak German or introduce him to <a href="/wiki/German_literature" title="German literature">German literature</a>, <a href="/wiki/German_cuisine" title="German cuisine">cuisine</a>, or traditions, leaving him feeling "ignorant and rootless".<a href="#cite_note-Sharp1360-5">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-Marvin2Farrell3-4-6">[6]</a> Vonnegut later credited Ida Young, his family's African-American cook and housekeeper during the first decade of his life, for raising him and giving him values; he said, "she gave me decent moral instruction and was exceedingly nice to me", and "was as great an influence on me as anybody". He described her as "humane and wise" and added that "the compassionate, forgiving aspects of [his] beliefs" came from her.<a href="#cite_note-Marvin4-7">[7]</a> The financial security and social prosperity that the Vonneguts had once enjoyed were destroyed in a matter of years. The Liebers' brewery closed down in 1921 after the advent of <a href="/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States" title="Prohibition in the United States">prohibition</a>. When the <a href="/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a> hit, few people could afford to build, causing clients at Kurt Sr.'s architectural firm to become scarce.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061360-8">[8]</a> Vonnegut's brother and sister had finished their primary and secondary educations in private schools, but Vonnegut was placed in a public school called Public School No. 43 (now the <a href="/wiki/James_Whitcomb_Riley" title="James Whitcomb Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</a> School).<a href="#cite_note-Boomhower-9">[9]</a> He was bothered by the Great Depression,<a href="#cite_note-11">[a]</a> and both his parents were affected deeply by their economic misfortune. His father withdrew from normal life and became what Vonnegut called a "dreamy artist".<a href="#cite_note-Sharp1360Marvin2-3-12">[11]</a> His mother became depressed, withdrawn, bitter, and abusive. She labored to regain the family's wealth and status, and Vonnegut said that she expressed hatred for her husband that was "as corrosive as <a href="/wiki/Hydrochloric_acid" title="Hydrochloric acid">hydrochloric acid</a>".<a href="#cite_note-Marvin2-3-13">[12]</a> She often tried in vain to sell short stories she had written to <a href="/wiki/Collier%27s" title="Collier's">Collier's</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Saturday_Evening_Post" title="The Saturday Evening Post">The Saturday Evening Post</a>, and other magazines.<a href="#cite_note-Sharp1360-5">[5]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="High_school_and_Cornell_University">High school and Cornell University</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: High school and Cornell University">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kurt_Vonnegut_-_High_School_Yearbook.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Kurt_Vonnegut_-_High_School_Yearbook.PNG/170px-Kurt_Vonnegut_-_High_School_Yearbook.PNG" decoding="async" width="170" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Kurt_Vonnegut_-_High_School_Yearbook.PNG/255px-Kurt_Vonnegut_-_High_School_Yearbook.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Kurt_Vonnegut_-_High_School_Yearbook.PNG 2x" data-file-width="264" data-file-height="343" /></a><figcaption>Vonnegut as a teenager, from the <a href="/wiki/Shortridge_High_School" title="Shortridge High School">Shortridge High School</a> 1940 yearbook</figcaption></figure> Vonnegut enrolled at <a href="/wiki/Shortridge_High_School" title="Shortridge High School">Shortridge High School</a> in Indianapolis in 1936. While there, he played <a href="/wiki/Clarinet" title="Clarinet">clarinet</a> in the school band and became a co-editor (along with <a href="/wiki/Madelyn_Pugh" title="Madelyn Pugh">Madelyn Pugh</a>) for the Tuesday edition of the school newspaper, The Shortridge Echo. Vonnegut said that his tenure with the Echo allowed him to write for a large audience—his fellow students—rather than for a teacher, an experience, he said, was "fun and easy".<a href="#cite_note-BoomhowerFarrell4-5-3">[3]</a> "It just turned out that I could write better than a lot of other people", Vonnegut observed. "Each person has something he can do easily and can't imagine why everybody else has so much trouble doing it."<a href="#cite_note-Boomhower-9">[9]</a> After graduating from Shortridge in 1940, Vonnegut enrolled at <a href="/wiki/Cornell_University" title="Cornell University">Cornell University</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ithaca,_New_York" title="Ithaca, New York">Ithaca, New York</a>. He wanted to study the humanities and had aspirations of becoming an architect like his father, but his father<a href="#cite_note-15">[b]</a> and brother Bernard, an atmospheric scientist, urged him to study a "useful" discipline.<a href="#cite_note-BoomhowerFarrell4-5-3">[3]</a> As a result, Vonnegut majored in <a href="/wiki/Biochemistry" title="Biochemistry">biochemistry</a>, but he had little proficiency in the area and was indifferent towards his studies.<a href="#cite_note-16">[14]</a> As his father had been a member at <a href="/wiki/MIT" class="mw-redirect" title="MIT">MIT</a>,<a href="#cite_note-17">[15]</a> Vonnegut was entitled to join the <a href="/wiki/Delta_Upsilon" title="Delta Upsilon">Delta Upsilon</a> fraternity, and did.<a href="#cite_note-Lowery2007-18">[16]</a> He overcame stiff competition for a place at the university's independent newspaper, <a href="/wiki/The_Cornell_Daily_Sun" title="The Cornell Daily Sun">The Cornell Daily Sun</a>, first serving as a <a href="/wiki/Staff_writer" title="Staff writer">staff writer</a>, then as an editor.<a href="#cite_note-Farrell5-19">[17]</a><a href="#cite_note-20">[18]</a> By the end of his first year, he was writing a column titled "Innocents Abroad", which reused jokes from other publications. He later penned a piece "Well All Right" focusing on <a href="/wiki/Pacifism" title="Pacifism">pacifism</a>, a cause he strongly supported,<a href="#cite_note-Boomhower-9">[9]</a> arguing against US intervention in World War II.<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="World_War_II">World War II</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: World War II">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kurt-Vonnegut-US-Army-portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Kurt-Vonnegut-US-Army-portrait.jpg/170px-Kurt-Vonnegut-US-Army-portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="235" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Kurt-Vonnegut-US-Army-portrait.jpg/255px-Kurt-Vonnegut-US-Army-portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Kurt-Vonnegut-US-Army-portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="284" data-file-height="392" /></a><figcaption>Vonnegut in army uniform during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a></figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor" title="Attack on Pearl Harbor">attack on Pearl Harbor</a> brought the United States into <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">WWII</a>. Vonnegut was a member of <a href="/wiki/Reserve_Officers%27_Training_Corps" title="Reserve Officers' Training Corps">Reserve Officers' Training Corps</a>, but poor grades and a satirical article in Cornell's newspaper cost him his place there. He was placed on <a href="/wiki/Scholastic_probation" title="Scholastic probation">academic probation</a> in May 1942 and dropped out the following January. No longer eligible for a deferment as a member of ROTC, he faced likely <a href="/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States" title="Conscription in the United States">conscription</a> into the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a>. Instead of waiting to be drafted, he enlisted in the Army and in March 1943 reported to <a href="/wiki/Fort_Bragg" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Bragg">Fort Bragg</a>, North Carolina, for basic training.<a href="#cite_note-22">[20]</a> Vonnegut was trained to fire and maintain <a href="/wiki/Howitzer" title="Howitzer">howitzers</a> and later received instruction in <a href="/wiki/Mechanical_engineering" title="Mechanical engineering">mechanical engineering</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Carnegie_Institute_of_Technology" class="mw-redirect" title="Carnegie Institute of Technology">Carnegie Institute of Technology</a> and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Tennessee" title="University of Tennessee">University of Tennessee</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/Army_Specialized_Training_Program" title="Army Specialized Training Program">Army Specialized Training Program</a> (ASTP).<a href="#cite_note-Farrell5Boomhower-14">[13]</a> In early 1944, the ASTP was canceled due to the Army's need for soldiers to support <a href="/wiki/Operation_Overlord" title="Operation Overlord">the D-Day invasion</a>, and Vonnegut was ordered to an infantry battalion at <a href="/wiki/Camp_Atterbury" class="mw-redirect" title="Camp Atterbury">Camp Atterbury</a>, south of Indianapolis in <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh,_Indiana" title="Edinburgh, Indiana">Edinburgh, Indiana</a>, where he trained as a scout.<a href="#cite_note-23">[21]</a> He lived so close to his home that he was "able to sleep in [his] own bedroom and use the family car on weekends".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrell20096-24">[22]</a> On May 14, 1944, Vonnegut returned home on leave for <a href="/wiki/Mother%27s_Day_(United_States)" title="Mother's Day (United States)">Mother's Day</a> weekend to discover that his mother had committed suicide the previous night by <a href="/wiki/Drug_overdose" title="Drug overdose">overdosing on sleeping pills</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Farrell6-25">[23]</a> Possible factors that contributed to Edith Vonnegut's suicide include the family's loss of wealth and status, Vonnegut's forthcoming deployment overseas, and her own lack of success as a writer. She was inebriated at the time and under the influence of prescription drugs.<a href="#cite_note-Farrell6-25">[23]</a> Three months after his mother's suicide, Vonnegut was sent to Europe as an intelligence scout with the <a href="/wiki/106th_Infantry_Division_(United_States)" title="106th Infantry Division (United States)">106th Infantry Division</a>. In December 1944, he fought in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge" title="Battle of the Bulge">Battle of the Bulge</a>, one of the last German offensives of the war.<a href="#cite_note-Farrell6-25">[23]</a> On December 22, Vonnegut was captured with about 50 other American soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-Sharp1363Farrell6-26">[24]</a> Vonnegut was taken by <a href="/wiki/Boxcar" title="Boxcar">boxcar</a> to a prison camp south of <a href="/wiki/Dresden" title="Dresden">Dresden</a>, in the German province of <a href="/wiki/Saxony" title="Saxony">Saxony</a>. During the journey, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Air_Force" title="Royal Air Force">Royal Air Force</a> mistakenly attacked the trains carrying Vonnegut and his fellow <a href="/wiki/Prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a>, killing about 150 of them.<a href="#cite_note-:0-27">[25]</a> Vonnegut was sent to Dresden, the "first fancy city [he had] ever seen". He lived in a slaughterhouse when he got to the city, and worked in a factory that made <a href="/wiki/Malt_syrup" class="mw-redirect" title="Malt syrup">malt syrup</a> for pregnant women. Vonnegut recalled the sirens going off whenever another city was bombed. The Germans did not expect Dresden to be bombed, Vonnegut said. "There were very few air-raid shelters in town and no war industries, just cigarette factories, hospitals, clarinet factories."<a href="#cite_note-TheParisReview-28">[26]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-Z0309-310,_Zerst%C3%B6rtes_Dresden.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-Z0309-310%2C_Zerst%C3%B6rtes_Dresden.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-Z0309-310%2C_Zerst%C3%B6rtes_Dresden.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="149" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-Z0309-310%2C_Zerst%C3%B6rtes_Dresden.jpg/330px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-Z0309-310%2C_Zerst%C3%B6rtes_Dresden.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-Z0309-310%2C_Zerst%C3%B6rtes_Dresden.jpg/440px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-Z0309-310%2C_Zerst%C3%B6rtes_Dresden.jpg 2x" data-file-width="795" data-file-height="537" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Dresden" title="Dresden">Dresden</a> in 1945. More than 90% of the city's center was destroyed.</figcaption></figure> On February 13, 1945, Dresden became the target of <a href="/wiki/Allies_of_World_War_II" title="Allies of World War II">Allied forces</a>. In the hours and days that followed, the Allies engaged in a <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Dresden" title="Bombing of Dresden">firebombing of the city</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Farrell6-25">[23]</a> The offensive subsided on February 15, with about 25,000 civilians killed in the bombing. Vonnegut marveled at the level of both the destruction in Dresden and the secrecy that attended it. He had survived by taking refuge in a meat locker three stories underground.<a href="#cite_note-Boomhower-9">[9]</a> "It was cool there, with cadavers hanging all around", Vonnegut said. "When we came up the city was gone ... They burnt the whole damn town down."<a href="#cite_note-TheParisReview-28">[26]</a> Vonnegut and other American prisoners were put to work immediately after the bombing, excavating bodies from the rubble.<a href="#cite_note-29">[27]</a> He described the activity as a "terribly elaborate Easter-egg hunt".<a href="#cite_note-TheParisReview-28">[26]</a> The American POWs were evacuated on foot to the border of Saxony and <a href="/wiki/Czechoslovakia" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> after U.S. General <a href="/wiki/George_S._Patton" title="George S. Patton">George S. Patton</a>'s <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Central" title="United States Army Central">3rd Army</a> captured <a href="/wiki/Leipzig" title="Leipzig">Leipzig</a>. With the captives abandoned by their guards, Vonnegut reached a prisoner-of-war repatriation camp in <a href="/wiki/Le_Havre" title="Le Havre">Le Havre</a>, France, in May 1945, with the aid of the Soviets.<a href="#cite_note-:0-27">[25]</a> Sent back to the United States, he was stationed at <a href="/wiki/Fort_Riley" title="Fort Riley">Fort Riley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kansas" title="Kansas">Kansas</a>, typing discharge papers for other soldiers.<a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a> Soon after, he was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Purple_Heart" title="Purple Heart">Purple Heart</a>, about which he remarked: "I myself was awarded my country's second-lowest decoration, a Purple Heart for <a href="/wiki/Frost-bite" class="mw-redirect" title="Frost-bite">frost-bite</a>."<a href="#cite_note-DaltonSEP-31">[29]</a> He was discharged from the U.S. Army and returned to Indianapolis.<a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriage,_University_of_Chicago,_and_early_employment">Marriage, University of Chicago, and early employment</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Marriage, University of Chicago, and early employment">edit</a>]</div> After he returned to the United States, 22-year-old Vonnegut married Jane Marie Cox, his high-school girlfriend and classmate since kindergarten, on September 1, 1945. The pair moved to Chicago; there, Vonnegut enrolled in the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> on the <a href="/wiki/G.I._Bill" title="G.I. Bill">G.I. Bill</a>, as an <a href="/wiki/Anthropology" title="Anthropology">anthropology</a> student in an unusual five-year joint undergraduate/graduate program that conferred a <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's degree</a>. There, he studied under anthropologist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Redfield" title="Robert Redfield">Robert Redfield</a>, his "most famous professor".<a href="#cite_note-33">[31]</a> He also worked as a reporter for the <a href="/wiki/City_News_Bureau_of_Chicago" title="City News Bureau of Chicago">City News Bureau of Chicago</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2007-34">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-35">[33]</a> Jane, who had graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore,<a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a> accepted a scholarship from the university to study <a href="/wiki/Russian_literature" title="Russian literature">Russian literature</a> as a graduate student. Jane dropped out of the program after becoming pregnant with the couple's first child, <a href="/wiki/Mark_Vonnegut" title="Mark Vonnegut">Mark</a> (born May 1947), while Kurt also left the university without any degree (despite having completed his undergraduate education). Vonnegut failed to write a dissertation, as his ideas had all been rejected.<a href="#cite_note-TheParisReview-28">[26]</a> One abandoned topic was about the Ghost Dance and Cubist movements.<a href="#cite_note-37">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-39">[37]</a> A later topic, rejected "unanimously", had to do with the shapes of stories.<a href="#cite_note-40">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVonnegut2009285-42">[40]</a> Vonnegut received his graduate degree in anthropology 25 years after he left, when the university accepted his novel <a href="/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle" title="Cat's Cradle">Cat's Cradle</a> in lieu of his master's thesis.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin20027-43">[41]</a> Shortly thereafter, <a href="/wiki/General_Electric" title="General Electric">General Electric</a> (GE) hired Vonnegut as a technical writer, then publicist,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENoble2017p._166:_"In_the_early_1950s_novelist_Kurt_Vonnegut_was_a_technical_writer_and_publicist_at_GE_headquarters_in_Schenectady."-44">[42]</a> for the company's <a href="/wiki/Schenectady,_New_York" title="Schenectady, New York">Schenectady, New York</a>, News Bureau, a publicity department that operated like a newsroom.<a href="#cite_note-45">[43]</a> His brother Bernard had worked at GE since 1945, focusing mainly on a silver-iodide-based <a href="/wiki/Cloud_seeding" title="Cloud seeding">cloud seeding</a> project that quickly became a joint GE-<a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Signal_Corps" title="United States Army Signal Corps">U.S. Army Signal Corps</a> program, Project Cirrus. In The Brothers Vonnegut, <a href="/wiki/Ginger_Strand" title="Ginger Strand">Ginger Strand</a> draws connections between many real events at General Electric, including Bernard's work, and Vonnegut's early stories, which were regularly being rejected everywhere he sent them.<a href="#cite_note-46">[44]</a> Throughout this period, Jane Vonnegut encouraged him, editing his stories, strategizing about submissions and buoying his spirits.<a href="#cite_note-47">[45]</a> In 1949, Kurt and Jane had a daughter named <a href="/wiki/Edith_Vonnegut" title="Edith Vonnegut">Edith</a>. Still working for GE, Vonnegut had his first piece, titled "<a href="/wiki/Report_on_the_Barnhouse_Effect" title="Report on the Barnhouse Effect">Report on the Barnhouse Effect</a>", published in the February 11, 1950, issue of Collier's, for which he received $750.<a href="#cite_note-48">[46]</a> The story concerned a scientist who fears that his invention will be used as a weapon, much as Bernard was fearing at the time about his cloudseeding work.<a href="#cite_note-49">[47]</a> Vonnegut wrote another story, after being coached by the fiction editor at Collier's, Knox Burger, and again sold it to the magazine, this time for $950. While Burger supported Vonnegut's writing, he was shocked when Vonnegut quit GE as of January 1, 1951, later stating: "I never said he should give up his job and devote himself to fiction. I don't trust the freelancer's life, it's tough."<a href="#cite_note-50">[48]</a> Nevertheless, in early 1951 Vonnegut moved with his family to <a href="/wiki/Cape_Cod,_Massachusetts" class="mw-redirect" title="Cape Cod, Massachusetts">Cape Cod, Massachusetts</a>, to write full time, leaving GE behind.<a href="#cite_note-51">[49]</a> He initially moved to <a href="/wiki/Osterville,_Massachusetts" title="Osterville, Massachusetts">Osterville</a>, but he ended up purchasing a home in <a href="/wiki/Barnstable,_Massachusetts" title="Barnstable, Massachusetts">Barnstable</a>.<a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="First_novel">First novel</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: First novel">edit</a>]</div> In 1952, Vonnegut's first novel, <a href="/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)" title="Player Piano (novel)">Player Piano</a>, was published by <a href="/wiki/Charles_Scribner%27s_Sons" title="Charles Scribner's Sons">Scribner's</a>. The novel has a post-Third World War setting, in which factory workers have been replaced by machines.<a href="#cite_note-player-53">[51]</a> Player Piano draws upon Vonnegut's experience as an employee at GE. The novel is set at a General Electric-like company and includes many scenes based on things Vonnegut saw there.<a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a> He satirizes the drive to climb the corporate ladder, one that in Player Piano is rapidly disappearing as automation increases, putting even executives out of work. His central character, Paul Proteus, has an ambitious wife, a backstabbing assistant, and a feeling of empathy for the poor. Sent by his boss, Kroner, as a double agent among the poor (who have all the material goods they want, but little sense of purpose), he leads them in a machine-smashing, museum-burning revolution.<a href="#cite_note-playerp-55">[53]</a> Player Piano expresses Vonnegut's opposition to <a href="/wiki/McCarthyism" title="McCarthyism">McCarthyism</a>, something made clear when the Ghost Shirts, the revolutionary organization Paul penetrates and eventually leads, is referred to by one character as "<a href="/wiki/Fellow_travelers" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow travelers">fellow travelers</a>".<a href="#cite_note-56">[54]</a> In Player Piano, Vonnegut originates many of the techniques he would use in his later works. The comic, heavy-drinking Shah of Bratpuhr, an outsider to this dystopian corporate United States, is able to ask many questions that an insider would not think to ask, or would cause offense by doing so. For example, when taken to see the artificially intelligent supercomputer EPICAC, the Shah asks it "what are people for?" and receives no answer. Speaking for Vonnegut, he dismisses it as a "false god". This type of alien visitor would recur throughout Vonnegut's literature.<a href="#cite_note-playerp-55">[53]</a> <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> writer and critic <a href="/wiki/Granville_Hicks" title="Granville Hicks">Granville Hicks</a> gave Player Piano a positive review, favorably comparing it to <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World">Brave New World</a>. Hicks called Vonnegut a "sharp-eyed satirist". None of the reviewers considered the novel particularly important. Several editions were printed—one by <a href="/wiki/Bantam_Books" title="Bantam Books">Bantam</a> with the title Utopia 14, and another by the <a href="/wiki/Doubleday_Science_Fiction_Book_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club">Doubleday Science Fiction Book Club</a>—whereby Vonnegut gained the reputation as a writer of <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a>, a genre held in disdain by writers at that time. He defended the genre and deplored a perceived sentiment that "no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works".<a href="#cite_note-player-53">[51]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Struggling_writer">Struggling writer</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Struggling writer">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Vonnegut_and_family_large.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Vonnegut_and_family_large.jpg/300px-Vonnegut_and_family_large.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Vonnegut_and_family_large.jpg/450px-Vonnegut_and_family_large.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Vonnegut_and_family_large.jpg/600px-Vonnegut_and_family_large.jpg 2x" data-file-width="961" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Vonnegut with his wife Jane and children (from left to right): Mark, Edith and Nanette, in 1955</figcaption></figure> After Player Piano, Vonnegut continued to sell short stories to various magazines. Contracted to produce a second novel (which eventually became Cat's Cradle), he struggled to complete it, and the work languished for years. In 1954, the couple had a third child, Nanette. With a growing family and no financially successful novels yet, Vonnegut's short stories helped to sustain the family, though he frequently needed to find additional sources of income. In 1957, he and a partner opened a <a href="/wiki/Saab_automobile" class="mw-redirect" title="Saab automobile">Saab automobile</a> dealership on Cape Cod, but it went bankrupt by the end of the year.<a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a> He designed a World War II–themed board game called "GHQ" (General Headquarters), but publishers did not buy it.<a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a> In 1958, his sister, Alice, died of cancer two days after her husband, James Carmalt Adams, was killed in <a href="/wiki/Newark_Bay_rail_accident" class="mw-redirect" title="Newark Bay rail accident">a train accident</a>. The Vonneguts took in three of the Adams' young sons—James, <a href="/wiki/Steve_Adams_(writer)" title="Steve Adams (writer)">Steven</a>, and Kurt, aged 14, 11, and 9, respectively.<a href="#cite_note-Farrell9-59">[57]</a> A fourth Adams son, Peter (2), also stayed with the Vonneguts for about a year before being given to the care of a paternal relative in Georgia.<a href="#cite_note-60">[58]</a> Grappling with family challenges, Vonnegut continued to write, publishing novels vastly dissimilar in terms of plot. <a href="/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan" title="The Sirens of Titan">The Sirens of Titan</a> (1959) features a Martian invasion of Earth, as experienced by a bored billionaire Malachi Constant. He meets Winston Niles Rumfoord, an aristocratic space traveler, who is virtually omniscient but stuck in a time warp that causes him to appear on Earth every 59 days. The billionaire learns that his actions and the events of all of history are determined by a race of robotic aliens from the planet <a href="/wiki/Tralfamadore" title="Tralfamadore">Tralfamadore</a>, who need a replacement part that can only be produced by an advanced civilization in order to repair their spaceship and return home—human history has been manipulated to produce it. Some human structures, such as <a href="/wiki/The_Kremlin" class="mw-redirect" title="The Kremlin">the Kremlin</a>, are coded signals from the aliens to their ship as to how long it may expect to wait for the repair to take place. Reviewers were uncertain what to think of the book, with one comparing it to <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Offenbach" title="Jacques Offenbach">Offenbach</a>'s opera <a href="/wiki/The_Tales_of_Hoffmann" title="The Tales of Hoffmann">The Tales of Hoffmann</a>.<a href="#cite_note-61">[59]</a> Rumfoord, who is based on <a href="/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>, also physically resembles the former president. Rumfoord is described this way: he "put a cigarette in a long, bone cigarette holder, lighted it. He thrust out his jaw. The cigarette holder pointed straight up."<a href="#cite_note-62">[60]</a> <a href="/wiki/William_Rodney_Allen" title="William Rodney Allen">William Rodney Allen</a>, in his guide to Vonnegut's works, stated that Rumfoord foreshadowed the fictional political figures who would play major roles in <a href="/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Mr._Rosewater" title="God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater">God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater</a> and Jailbird.<a href="#cite_note-63">[61]</a> <a href="/wiki/Mother_Night" title="Mother Night">Mother Night</a>, published in 1961, received little attention at the time of its publication. Howard W. Campbell Jr., Vonnegut's protagonist, is an American who is raised in Germany from age 11 and joins the Nazi party during the war as a double agent for the US <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services" title="Office of Strategic Services">Office of Strategic Services</a>, rising to the regime's highest ranks as a radio propagandist. After the war, the spy agency refuses to clear his name, and he is eventually imprisoned by the Israelis in the same cell block as <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann" title="Adolf Eichmann">Adolf Eichmann</a>. Vonnegut wrote in a foreword to a later edition: "we are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be".<a href="#cite_note-64">[62]</a> Literary critic Lawrence Berkove considered the novel, like <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn" title="Adventures of Huckleberry Finn">Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</a>, to illustrate the tendency for "impersonators to get carried away by their impersonations, to become what they impersonate and therefore to live in a world of illusion".<a href="#cite_note-65">[63]</a> Also published in 1961 was Vonnegut's short story "<a href="/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron" title="Harrison Bergeron">Harrison Bergeron</a>", set in a dystopic future where all are equal, even if that means disfiguring beautiful people and forcing the strong or intelligent to wear devices that negate their advantages. Fourteen-year-old Harrison is a genius and athlete forced to wear record-level "handicaps" and imprisoned for attempting to overthrow the government. He escapes to a television studio, tears away his handicaps, and frees a ballerina from her lead weights. As they dance, they are killed by the Handicapper General, Diana Moon Glampers.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeeds199546-66">[64]</a> Vonnegut, in a later letter, suggested that "Harrison Bergeron" might have sprung from his envy and self-pity as a high-school misfit. In his 1976 biography of Vonnegut, Stanley Schatt suggested that the short story shows "in any leveling process, what really is lost, according to Vonnegut, is beauty, grace, and wisdom".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHattenhauer1998387-67">[65]</a> Darryl Hattenhauer, in his 1998 journal article on "Harrison Bergeron", theorized that the story was a satire on American Cold War understandings of communism and socialism.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHattenhauer1998387-67">[65]</a> With <a href="/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle" title="Cat's Cradle">Cat's Cradle</a> (1963), Allen wrote, "Vonnegut hit full stride for the first time".<a href="#cite_note-68">[66]</a> The narrator, John, intends to write of Dr. Felix Hoenikker, one of the fictional fathers of the atomic bomb, seeking to cover the scientist's human side. Hoenikker, in addition to the bomb, has developed another threat to mankind, "ice-nine", solid water stable at room temperature, but more dense than liquid water. If a particle of ice-nine is dropped in water, all of the surrounding water becomes ice-nine. Felix Hoenikker is based on Bernard Vonnegut's boss at the GE Research Lab, <a href="/wiki/Irving_Langmuir" title="Irving Langmuir">Irving Langmuir</a>, and the way ice-nine is described in the novel is reminiscent of how Bernard Vonnegut explained his own invention, silver-iodide cloudseeding, to Kurt.<a href="#cite_note-69">[67]</a> Much of the second half of the book is spent on the fictional Caribbean island of San Lorenzo, where John explores a religion called <a href="/wiki/Bokononism" class="mw-redirect" title="Bokononism">Bokononism</a>, whose holy books (excerpts from which are quoted) give the novel the moral core science does not supply. After the oceans are converted to ice-nine, wiping out most of humankind, John wanders the frozen surface, seeking to save himself and to make sure that his story survives.<a href="#cite_note-70">[68]</a><a href="#cite_note-71">[69]</a> Vonnegut based the title character of God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1964) on an accountant he knew on Cape Cod, who specialized in clients in trouble and often had to comfort them. Eliot Rosewater, the wealthy son of a Republican senator, seeks to atone for his wartime killing of noncombatant firefighters by serving in a <a href="/wiki/Volunteer_fire_department" title="Volunteer fire department">volunteer fire department</a> and by giving away money to those in trouble or need. Stress from a battle for control of his charitable foundation pushes him over the edge, and he is placed in a mental hospital. He recovers and ends the financial battle by declaring the children of his county to be his heirs.<a href="#cite_note-72">[70]</a> Allen deemed God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater more "a cry from the heart than a novel under its author's full intellectual control", that reflected family and emotional stresses Vonnegut was going through at the time.<a href="#cite_note-73">[71]</a> In the mid-1960s, Vonnegut contemplated abandoning his writing career. In 1999, he wrote in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>: "I had gone broke, was out of print and had a lot of kids..." But then, on the recommendation of an admirer, he received a surprise offer of a teaching job at the <a href="/wiki/Iowa_Writers%27_Workshop" title="Iowa Writers' Workshop">Iowa Writers' Workshop</a>, employment that he likened to the rescue of a drowning man.<a href="#cite_note-74">[72]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Slaughterhouse-Five">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kurt_Vonnegut_1972.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Kurt_Vonnegut_1972.jpg/220px-Kurt_Vonnegut_1972.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="326" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Kurt_Vonnegut_1972.jpg/330px-Kurt_Vonnegut_1972.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Kurt_Vonnegut_1972.jpg/440px-Kurt_Vonnegut_1972.jpg 2x" data-file-width="936" data-file-height="1388" /></a><figcaption>Vonnegut in 1972</figcaption></figure> After spending almost two years at <a href="/wiki/Iowa_Writers%27_Workshop" title="Iowa Writers' Workshop">the writer's workshop</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Iowa" title="University of Iowa">University of Iowa</a>, teaching one course each term, Vonnegut was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Guggenheim_Fellowship" title="Guggenheim Fellowship">Guggenheim Fellowship</a> for research in Germany. By the time he won it, in March 1967, he was becoming a well-known writer. He used the funds to travel in Eastern Europe, including to Dresden, where he found many prominent buildings still in ruins.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShields2011219–228-75">[73]</a> Vonnegut had been writing about his war experiences at Dresden ever since he returned from the war, but unable to write anything that was acceptable to himself or his publishers; chapter one of <a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</a> tells of his difficulties.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllen82–85-76">[74]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStrand201549–50-77">[75]</a> Released in 1969, the novel rocketed Vonnegut to fame.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShields2011248–249-78">[76]</a> It tells of the life of Billy Pilgrim, who like Vonnegut was born in 1922 and survives the bombing of Dresden. The story is told in a non-linear fashion, with many of the story's climaxes—Billy's death in 1976, his kidnapping by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore nine years earlier, and the execution of Billy's friend Edgar Derby in the ashes of Dresden for stealing a teapot—disclosed in the story's first pages.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllen82–85-76">[74]</a> In 1970, Vonnegut was also a correspondent in <a href="/wiki/Biafra" title="Biafra">Biafra</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War" title="Nigerian Civil War">Nigerian Civil War</a>.<a href="#cite_note-79">[77]</a><a href="#cite_note-80">[78]</a> Slaughterhouse-Five received generally positive reviews, with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Crichton" title="Michael Crichton">Michael Crichton</a> writing in <a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a>: <blockquote>he writes about the most excruciatingly painful things. His novels have attacked our deepest fears of automation and the bomb, our deepest political guilts, our fiercest hatreds and loves. No one else writes books on these subjects; they are inaccessible to normal novelists.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShields2011254-81">[79]</a></blockquote> The book went immediately to the top of <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="The New York Times Best Seller list">The New York Times Best Seller list</a>. Vonnegut's earlier works had appealed strongly to many college students, and the antiwar message of Slaughterhouse-Five resonated with a generation marked by the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>. He later stated that the loss of confidence in government that Vietnam caused finally allowed an honest conversation regarding events like Dresden.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEShields2011248–249-78">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Later_life">Later life</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Later life">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:New_York,_228_East_48th_Street.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/New_York%2C_228_East_48th_Street.JPG/300px-New_York%2C_228_East_48th_Street.JPG" decoding="async" width="300" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/New_York%2C_228_East_48th_Street.JPG/450px-New_York%2C_228_East_48th_Street.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/New_York%2C_228_East_48th_Street.JPG/600px-New_York%2C_228_East_48th_Street.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a><figcaption>New York, 228 East 48th Street (center), Kurt Vonnegut's house from 1973 to 2007</figcaption></figure> After Slaughterhouse-Five was published, Vonnegut embraced the fame and financial security that attended its release. He was hailed as a hero of the burgeoning anti-war movement in the United States, was invited to speak at numerous rallies, and gave college <a href="/wiki/Commencement_address" class="mw-redirect" title="Commencement address">commencement addresses</a> around the country.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200210-82">[80]</a> In addition to briefly teaching at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> as a lecturer in <a href="/wiki/Creative_writing" title="Creative writing">creative writing</a> in 1970, Vonnegut taught at the <a href="/wiki/City_College_of_New_York" title="City College of New York">City College of New York</a> as a distinguished professor during the 1973–1974 academic year.<a href="#cite_note-83">[81]</a> He was later elected vice president of the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_of_Arts_and_Letters" class="mw-redirect" title="National Institute of Arts and Letters">National Institute of Arts and Letters</a> and given honorary degrees by, among others, <a href="/wiki/Indiana_University" title="Indiana University">Indiana University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bennington_College" title="Bennington College">Bennington College</a>. Vonnegut also wrote a play called <a href="/wiki/Happy_Birthday,_Wanda_June" title="Happy Birthday, Wanda June">Happy Birthday, Wanda June</a>, which opened on October 7, 1970, at New York's <a href="/wiki/Theatre_de_Lys" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatre de Lys">Theatre de Lys</a>. Receiving mixed reviews, it closed on March 14, 1971. In 1972, <a href="/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal Pictures</a> adapted Slaughterhouse-Five into <a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five_(film)" title="Slaughterhouse-Five (film)">a film</a>, which the author said was "flawless".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200211-84">[82]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style=";"> <div class="quotebox-title" style="">Requiem (ending)</div> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote center-aligned" style=""> <div class="poem"> When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, "It is done." People did not like it here. </div> </blockquote> <cite class="right-aligned" style="">Kurt Vonnegut, <a href="/wiki/A_Man_Without_a_Country" title="A Man Without a Country">A Man Without a Country</a>, 2005<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2007-34">[32]</a></cite> </div> Vonnegut's difficulties in his personal life thereafter materialized in numerous ways, including the painfully slow progress made on his next novel, the darkly comical <a href="/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions" title="Breakfast of Champions">Breakfast of Champions</a>. In 1971, he stopped writing the novel altogether.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200211-84">[82]</a> When it was finally released in 1973, it was panned critically. In Thomas S. Hischak's book American Literature on Stage and Screen, Breakfast of Champions was called "funny and outlandish", but reviewers noted that it "lacks substance and seems to be an exercise in literary playfulness".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHischak201231-85">[83]</a> Vonnegut's 1976 novel <a href="/wiki/Slapstick_(novel)" title="Slapstick (novel)">Slapstick</a>, which meditates on the relationship between him and his sister (Alice), met a similar fate. In The New York Times's review of Slapstick, <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Lehmann-Haupt" title="Christopher Lehmann-Haupt">Christopher Lehmann-Haupt</a> said that Vonnegut "seems to be putting less effort into [storytelling] than ever before" and that "it still seems as if he has given up storytelling after all".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELehmann-Haupt1976-86">[84]</a> At times, Vonnegut was disgruntled by the personal nature of his detractors' complaints.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200211-84">[82]</a> In subsequent years, his popularity resurged as he published several satirical books, including <a href="/wiki/Jailbird_(novel)" title="Jailbird (novel)">Jailbird</a> (1979), <a href="/wiki/Deadeye_Dick" title="Deadeye Dick">Deadeye Dick</a> (1982), <a href="/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel)" title="Galápagos (novel)">Galápagos</a> (1985), <a href="/wiki/Bluebeard_(Vonnegut_novel)" title="Bluebeard (Vonnegut novel)">Bluebeard</a> (1987), and <a href="/wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(novel)" title="Hocus Pocus (novel)">Hocus Pocus</a> (1990).<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESumner2014-87">[85]</a> Although he remained a prolific writer in the 1980s, Vonnegut struggled with depression and attempted suicide in 1984.<a href="#cite_note-88">[86]</a> Two years later, Vonnegut was seen by a younger generation when he played himself in <a href="/wiki/Rodney_Dangerfield" title="Rodney Dangerfield">Rodney Dangerfield</a>'s film <a href="/wiki/Back_to_School" title="Back to School">Back to School</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200212-89">[87]</a> The last of Vonnegut's fourteen novels, <a href="/wiki/Timequake" title="Timequake">Timequake</a> (1997), was, as <a href="/wiki/University_of_Detroit" class="mw-redirect" title="University of Detroit">University of Detroit</a> history professor and Vonnegut biographer <a href="/wiki/Gregory_Sumner" title="Gregory Sumner">Gregory Sumner</a> said, "a reflection of an aging man facing mortality and testimony to an embattled faith in the resilience of human awareness and agency".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESumner2014-87">[85]</a> Vonnegut's final book, a collection of essays entitled <a href="/wiki/A_Man_Without_a_Country" title="A Man Without a Country">A Man Without a Country</a> (2005), became a bestseller.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2007-34">[32]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a>]</div> Vonnegut married his first wife, Jane Marie Cox, in 1945. She later embraced Christianity, which was contrary to Vonnegut's atheistic beliefs, and after five of their six children having left home, Vonnegut said that the two were forced to find "other sorts of seemingly important work to do". The couple battled over their differing beliefs until Vonnegut moved from their Cape Cod home to New York in 1971. Vonnegut called the disagreements "painful" and said that the resulting split was a "terrible, unavoidable accident that we were ill-equipped to understand".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200210-82">[80]</a> The couple divorced but remained friends until Jane's death in late 1986.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWolff1987-90">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200210-82">[80]</a> Beyond his failed marriage, Vonnegut was deeply affected when his son Mark suffered a <a href="/wiki/Mental_breakdown" class="mw-redirect" title="Mental breakdown">mental breakdown</a> in 1972, which exacerbated Vonnegut's chronic depression and led him to take <a href="/wiki/Ritalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Ritalin">Ritalin</a>. When he stopped taking the drug in the mid-1970s, he began to see a psychologist weekly.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200211-84">[82]</a> In 1979, Vonnegut married <a href="/wiki/Jill_Krementz" title="Jill Krementz">Jill Krementz</a>, a photographer whom he met while she was working on a series about writers in the early 1970s. With Jill, he adopted a daughter, Lily, when the baby was three days old.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrell2009451-91">[89]</a> They remained married until his death. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death_and_legacy">Death and legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Death and legacy">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> Vonnegut's sincerity, his willingness to scoff at received wisdom, is such that reading his work for the first time gives one the sense that everything else is rank hypocrisy. His opinion of human nature was low, and that low opinion applied to his heroes and his villains alike—he was endlessly disappointed in humanity and in himself, and he expressed that disappointment in a mixture of tar-black humor and deep despair. He could easily have become a crank, but he was too smart; he could have become a cynic, but there was something tender in his nature that he could never quite suppress; he could have become a bore, but even at his most despairing he had an endless willingness to entertain his readers: with drawings, jokes, sex, bizarre plot twists, science fiction, whatever it took. </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/Lev_Grossman" title="Lev Grossman">Lev Grossman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a>, 2007<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrossman2007-92">[90]</a></cite> </div> In a 2006 <a href="/wiki/Rolling_Stone" title="Rolling Stone">Rolling Stone</a> interview, Vonnegut sardonically stated that he would sue the <a href="/wiki/Brown_%26_Williamson" title="Brown & Williamson">Brown & Williamson</a> tobacco company, the maker of the <a href="/wiki/Pall_Mall_(cigarette)" title="Pall Mall (cigarette)">Pall Mall</a>-branded cigarettes he had been smoking since he was around 12 or 14 years old, for false advertising: "And do you know why? Because I'm 83 years old. The lying bastards! On the package Brown & Williamson promised to kill me."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrossman2007-92">[90]</a> Vonnegut died in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> on the night of April 11, 2007, as a result of brain injuries incurred several weeks prior, from a fall at his <a href="/wiki/Brownstone" title="Brownstone">brownstone</a> home.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2007-34">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAllen-93">[91]</a> His death was reported by his wife Jill. He was 84 years old.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2007-34">[32]</a> At the time of his death, he had written fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction books.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGrossman2007-92">[90]</a> A book composed of his unpublished pieces, <a href="/wiki/Armageddon_in_Retrospect" title="Armageddon in Retrospect">Armageddon in Retrospect</a>, was compiled and posthumously published by his son Mark in 2008.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBlount2008-94">[92]</a> When asked about the impact Vonnegut had on his work, author <a href="/wiki/Josip_Novakovich" title="Josip Novakovich">Josip Novakovich</a> stated that he has "much to learn from Vonnegut—how to compress things and yet not compromise them, how to digress into history, quote from various historical accounts, and not stifle the narrative. The ease with which he writes is sheerly masterly, Mozartian."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBanach2013-95">[93]</a> <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a> columnist Gregory Rodriguez said that the author will "rightly be remembered as a darkly humorous social critic and the premier novelist of the <a href="/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" title="Counterculture of the 1960s">counterculture</a>",<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERodriguez2007-96">[94]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dinitia_Smith" title="Dinitia Smith">Dinitia Smith</a> of The New York Times dubbed Vonnegut the "counterculture's novelist".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2007-34">[32]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?297392-1/kurt-vonnegut-memorial-library">Tour of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, December 17, 2010</a>, C-SPAN</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?303840-1/goes-kurt-vonnegut-life">Presentation by Charles Shields on And So It Goes – Kurt Vonnegut: A Life, December 17, 2011</a>, C-SPAN</td></tr></tbody></table> Vonnegut has inspired numerous posthumous tributes and works. In 2008, the Kurt Vonnegut Society<a href="#cite_note-97">[95]</a> was established, and in November 2010, the <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library" title="Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library">Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library</a> was opened in Vonnegut's hometown of Indianapolis. The <a href="/wiki/Library_of_America" title="Library of America">Library of America</a> published a compendium of Vonnegut's compositions between 1963 and 1973 the following April, and another compendium of his earlier works in 2012. Late 2011 saw the release of two Vonnegut biographies: Gregory Sumner's Unstuck in Time and <a href="/wiki/Charles_J._Shields" title="Charles J. Shields">Charles J. Shields</a>'s And So It Goes.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKunzeTally20127-98">[96]</a> Shields's biography of Vonnegut created some controversy. According to <a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a>, the book portrays Vonnegut as distant, cruel and nasty. "Cruel, nasty and scary are the adjectives commonly used to describe him by the friends, colleagues, and relatives Shields quotes", said <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Beast" title="The Daily Beast">The Daily Beast</a>'s Wendy Smith. "Towards the end he was very feeble, very depressed and almost morose", said Jerome Klinkowitz of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Northern_Iowa" title="University of Northern Iowa">University of Northern Iowa</a>, who has examined Vonnegut in depth.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHarris2011-99">[97]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatleft" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> Like Mark Twain, Mr. Vonnegut used humor to tackle the basic questions of human existence: Why are we in this world? Is there a presiding figure to make sense of all this, a god who in the end, despite making people suffer, wishes them well? </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style="">Dinitia Smith, The New York Times, 2007<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2007-34">[32]</a></cite> </div> Vonnegut's works have evoked ire on several occasions. His most prominent novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, has been objected to or removed at various institutions in at least 18 instances.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorais2011-100">[98]</a> In the case of <a href="/wiki/Island_Trees_School_District_v._Pico" title="Island Trees School District v. Pico">Island Trees School District v. Pico</a>, the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Supreme Court">United States Supreme Court</a> ruled that <a href="/wiki/Island_Trees_Union_Free_School_District" title="Island Trees Union Free School District">a school district's</a> ban on Slaughterhouse-Five—which the board had called "anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, and just plain filthy"—and eight other novels was unconstitutional. When a school board in <a href="/wiki/Republic,_Missouri" title="Republic, Missouri">Republic, Missouri</a>, decided to withdraw Vonnegut's novel from its libraries, the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library offered a free copy to all the students of the district.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorais2011-100">[98]</a> Tally, writing in 2013, suggests that Vonnegut has only recently become the subject of serious study rather than fan adulation, and much is yet to be written about him. "The time for scholars to say 'Here's why Vonnegut is worth reading' has definitively ended, thank goodness. We know he's worth reading. Now tell us things we don't know."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETally201314–15-101">[99]</a> Todd F. Davis notes that Vonnegut's work is kept alive by his loyal readers, who have "significant influence as they continue to purchase Vonnegut's work, passing it on to subsequent generations and keeping his entire canon in print—an impressive list of more than twenty books that [Dell Publishing] has continued to refurbish and hawk with new cover designs."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavis20062-102">[100]</a> Donald E. Morse notes that Vonnegut "is now firmly, if somewhat controversially, ensconced in the American and world literary canon as well as in high school, college and graduate curricula".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorse201356-103">[101]</a> Tally writes of Vonnegut's work:<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETally2011158-104">[102]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">Vonnegut's 14 novels, while each does its own thing, together are nevertheless experiments in the same overall project. Experimenting with the form of the American novel itself, Vonnegut engages in a broadly modernist attempt to apprehend and depict the fragmented, unstable, and distressing bizarreries of postmodern American experience ... That he does not actually succeed in representing the shifting multiplicities of that social experience is beside the point. What matters is the attempt, and the recognition that ... we must try to map this unstable and perilous terrain, even if we know in advance that our efforts are doomed.</blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library_Indianapolis_July_2022.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library_Indianapolis_July_2022.jpg/220px-Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library_Indianapolis_July_2022.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="129" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library_Indianapolis_July_2022.jpg/330px-Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library_Indianapolis_July_2022.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library_Indianapolis_July_2022.jpg/440px-Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library_Indianapolis_July_2022.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3956" data-file-height="2313" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library" title="Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library">Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library</a> in Indianapolis in 2022</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame">Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame</a> inducted Vonnegut posthumously in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-sfhof2015-105">[103]</a><a href="#cite_note-sffhof-106">[104]</a> The asteroid 25399 Vonnegut is named in his honor.<a href="#cite_note-107">[105]</a> A <a href="/wiki/Vonnegut_(crater)" title="Vonnegut (crater)">crater</a> on the planet <a href="/wiki/Mercury_(planet)" title="Mercury (planet)">Mercury</a> has also been named in his honor.<a href="#cite_note-108">[106]</a> In 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_Museum_and_Library" title="Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library">Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library</a> in Indianapolis was designated a Literary Landmark by the Literary Landmarks Association.<a href="#cite_note-AP-20210926-109">[107]</a> In 1986, the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Evansville" title="University of Evansville">University of Evansville</a> library located in Evansville, Indiana, was named after Vonnegut, where he spoke during the dedication ceremony.<a href="#cite_note-110">[108]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Views">Views</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Views">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote">The beliefs I have to defend are so soft and complicated, actually, and, when vivisected, turn into bowls of undifferentiated mush. I am a pacifist, I am an anarchist, I am a planetary citizen, and so on.<a href="#cite_note-GuardianObit-111">[109]</a><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Kurt Vonnegut</cite></div></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="War">War</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: War">edit</a>]</div> In the introduction to <a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</a>, Vonnegut recounts meeting the film producer Harrison Starr at a party, who asked him whether his forthcoming book was an anti-war novel—"Yes, I guess", replied Vonnegut. Starr responded: "Why don't you write an anti-glacier novel?" In the novel, Vonnegut's character continues: "What he meant, of course, is that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death". Vonnegut was a pacifist.<a href="#cite_note-GuardianObit-111">[109]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mass_Ave.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A large painting of Vonnegut on the side of a building" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Mass_Ave.jpg/220px-Mass_Ave.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Mass_Ave.jpg/330px-Mass_Ave.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Mass_Ave.jpg/440px-Mass_Ave.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3881" data-file-height="2587" /></a><figcaption>A large painting of Vonnegut on <a href="/wiki/Massachusetts_Avenue,_Indianapolis" class="mw-redirect" title="Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis">Massachusetts Avenue, Indianapolis</a>, blocks away from the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and the Athenæum (Das_Deutsche_Haus), which was designed by his family's architecture firm</figcaption></figure> In 2011, <a href="/wiki/NPR" title="NPR">NPR</a> wrote: "Kurt Vonnegut's blend of anti-war sentiment and satire made him one of the most popular writers of the 1960s." Vonnegut stated in a 1987 interview: "my own feeling is that civilization ended in <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>, and we're still trying to recover from that", and that he wanted to write war-focused works without glamorizing war itself.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENPR2011-112">[110]</a> Vonnegut had not intended to publish again, but his anger against the <a href="/wiki/Presidency_of_George_W._Bush" title="Presidency of George W. Bush">George W. Bush administration</a> led him to write A Man Without a Country.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDaily_Telegraph_2007-113">[111]</a> Slaughterhouse-Five is the Vonnegut novel best known for its antiwar themes, but the author expressed his beliefs in ways beyond the depiction of the destruction of Dresden. One character, Mary O'Hare, opines that "wars were partly encouraged by books and movies", starring "<a href="/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a> or <a href="/wiki/John_Wayne" title="John Wayne">John Wayne</a> or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFreese2013101-114">[112]</a> Vonnegut made a number of comparisons between Dresden and the <a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Hiroshima" class="mw-redirect" title="Bombing of Hiroshima">bombing of Hiroshima</a> in Slaughterhouse-Five<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeeds19952-115">[113]</a> and wrote in Palm Sunday (1991): "I learned how vile that religion of mine could be when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeeds199568-116">[114]</a> <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear war">Nuclear war</a>, or at least deployed <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_arms" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear arms">nuclear arms</a>, is mentioned in almost all of Vonnegut's novels. In Player Piano, the computer EPICAC is given control of the nuclear arsenal and is charged with deciding whether to use high-explosive or nuclear arms. In Cat's Cradle, John's original purpose in setting pen to paper was to write an account of what prominent Americans had been doing as Hiroshima was bombed.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeeds19951–2-117">[115]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Religion">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:25em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddhist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead. ... I myself have written, "If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake." </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style="">Kurt Vonnegut, <a href="/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Dr._Kevorkian" title="God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian">God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian</a>, 1999<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVonnegut1999introduction-118">[116]</a></cite> </div> Vonnegut was an <a href="/wiki/Atheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Atheist">atheist</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Humanism" title="Humanism">humanist</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Freethought" title="Freethought">freethinker</a>, serving as the honorary president of the <a href="/wiki/American_Humanist_Association" title="American Humanist Association">American Humanist Association</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVonnegut2009177,_185,_191-119">[117]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiose2007-120">[118]</a> In an interview for <a href="/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a>, he stated that his forebears who came to the United States did not believe in God, and he learned his atheism from his parents.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeeds1995480-121">[119]</a> Vonnegut did not, however, disdain those who seek the comfort of religion, hailing church associations as a type of extended family.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061366-122">[120]</a> He occasionally attended a <a href="/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism">Unitarian</a> church, but with little consistency. In his autobiographical work Palm Sunday, Vonnegut says that he is a "Christ-worshipping agnostic".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVonnegut1982327-123">[121]</a> During a speech to the <a href="/wiki/Unitarian_Universalist_Association" title="Unitarian Universalist Association">Unitarian Universalist Association</a>, he called himself a "Christ-loving atheist". However, he was keen to stress that he was not a Christian.<a href="#cite_note-image-124">[122]</a> Vonnegut was an admirer of Jesus' <a href="/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount" title="Sermon on the Mount">Sermon on the Mount</a>, particularly the <a href="/wiki/Beatitudes" title="Beatitudes">Beatitudes</a>, and incorporated it into his own doctrines.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavis2006142-125">[123]</a> He also referred to it in many of his works.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVonnegut2006b-126">[124]</a> In his 1991 book Fates Worse than Death, Vonnegut suggests that during the Reagan administration, "anything that sounded like the Sermon on the Mount was socialistic or communistic, and therefore anti-American".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeeds1995525-127">[125]</a> In Palm Sunday, he wrote that "the Sermon on the Mount suggests a mercifulness that can never waver or fade".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeeds1995525-127">[125]</a> However, Vonnegut had a deep dislike for certain aspects of Christianity, often reminding his readers of the bloody history of the Crusades and other religion-inspired violence. He despised the <a href="/wiki/Televangelist" class="mw-redirect" title="Televangelist">televangelists</a> of the late 20th century, feeling that their thinking was narrow-minded.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrell2009141-128">[126]</a> Religion features frequently in Vonnegut's work, both in his novels and elsewhere. He laced a number of his speeches with religion-focused <a href="/wiki/Rhetoric" title="Rhetoric">rhetoric</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVonnegut1999introduction-118">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVonnegut2009177,_185,_191-119">[117]</a> and was prone to using such expressions as "God forbid" and "thank God".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTENiose2007-120">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVonnegut2009191-129">[127]</a> He once wrote his own version of the <a href="/wiki/Requiem_Mass" class="mw-redirect" title="Requiem Mass">Requiem Mass</a>, which he then had translated into Latin and set to music.<a href="#cite_note-image-124">[122]</a> In <a href="/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Dr._Kevorkian" title="God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian">God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian</a>, Vonnegut goes to heaven after he is <a href="/wiki/Euthanasia" title="Euthanasia">euthanized</a> by Dr. <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kevorkian" title="Jack Kevorkian">Jack Kevorkian</a>. Once in heaven, he interviews 21 deceased celebrities, including <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Kilgore_Trout" title="Kilgore Trout">Kilgore Trout</a>—the last a fictional character from several of his novels.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKohn2001-130">[128]</a> Vonnegut's works are filled with characters founding new faiths,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrell2009141-128">[126]</a> and religion often serves as a major plot device, for example, in Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan and Cat's Cradle. In The Sirens of Titan, Rumfoord proclaims The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. Slaughterhouse-Five sees Billy Pilgrim, lacking religion himself, nevertheless become a chaplain's assistant in the military and display a large crucifix on his bedroom wall.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELeeds1995477–479-131">[129]</a> In Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut invented the religion of <a href="/wiki/Bokononism" class="mw-redirect" title="Bokononism">Bokononism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200278-132">[130]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Politics">Politics</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Politics">edit</a>]</div> Vonnegut's thoughts on politics were shaped in large part by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Redfield" title="Robert Redfield">Robert Redfield</a>, an anthropologist at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>, co-founder of the <a href="/wiki/Committee_on_Social_Thought" title="Committee on Social Thought">Committee on Social Thought</a>, and one of Vonnegut's professors during his time at the university. In a commencement address, Vonnegut remarked that "Dr. Redfield's theory of the Folk Society ... has been the starting point for my politics, such as they are".<a href="#cite_note-133">[131]</a> Vonnegut did not particularly sympathize with <a href="/wiki/Liberalism_in_the_United_States" title="Liberalism in the United States">liberalism</a> or <a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">conservatism</a> and mused on the specious simplicity of <a href="/wiki/American_politics" class="mw-redirect" title="American politics">American politics</a>, saying facetiously: "If you want to take my guns away from me, and you're all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other ... you're a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you're a conservative. What could be simpler?"<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZinnArnove2009620-134">[132]</a> Regarding political parties, Vonnegut said: "The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVonnegut2006a"In_a_Manner_that_Must_Shame_God_Himself"-135">[133]</a> Vonnegut disregarded more mainstream American political ideologies in favor of <a href="/wiki/Socialism" title="Socialism">socialism</a>, which he thought could provide a valuable substitute for what he saw as <a href="/wiki/Social_Darwinism" title="Social Darwinism">social Darwinism</a> and a spirit of "<a href="/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest" title="Survival of the fittest">survival of the fittest</a>" in American society,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061364–1365-136">[134]</a> believing that "socialism would be a good for the common man".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGannonTaylor2013-137">[135]</a> Vonnegut would often return to a quote by socialist and five-time presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/Eugene_V._Debs" title="Eugene V. Debs">Eugene V. Debs</a>: "As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I'm of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061364-138">[136]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZinnArnove2009618-139">[137]</a> Vonnegut expressed disappointment that <a href="/wiki/Communism" title="Communism">communism</a> and socialism seemed to be unsavory topics to the average American and believed that they offered beneficial substitutes to contemporary social and economic systems.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061365-140">[138]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Technology">Technology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Technology">edit</a>]</div> In A Man Without a Country, Vonnegut quipped "I have been called a <a href="/wiki/Luddite" title="Luddite">Luddite</a>. I welcome it. Do you know what a Luddite is? A person who hates newfangled contraptions."<a href="#cite_note-141">[139]</a> The negative effects of the progress of technology is a constant theme throughout Vonnegut's works, from Player Piano to his final essay collection A Man Without a Country. Political theorist <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Deneen_(political_theorist)" class="mw-redirect" title="Patrick Deneen (political theorist)">Patrick Deneen</a> has identified this skepticism of technological progress as a theme of Vonnegut novels and stories, including Player Piano, "Harrison Bergeron", and "<a href="/wiki/Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_(short_story)" title="Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow (short story)">Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow</a>".<a href="#cite_note-142">[140]</a> Scholars who position Vonnegut as a critic of liberalism reference his pessimism toward technological progress.<a href="#cite_note-143">[141]</a><a href="#cite_note-144">[142]</a><a href="#cite_note-145">[143]</a> Vonnegut described Player Piano some years after its publication as "a novel about people and machines, and machines frequently got the best of it, as machines will."<a href="#cite_note-146">[144]</a> Loss of jobs due to machine innovation, and thus loss of meaning or purpose in life, is a key plot point in the novel. The "newfangled contraptions" Vonnegut hated included the television, which he critiqued often throughout his non-fiction and fiction. In <a href="/wiki/Timequake" title="Timequake">Timequake</a>, for example, Vonnegut tells the story of "Booboolings", human analogs who develop morally through their imaginative formation. However, one evil sister on the planet of the Booboolings learns to build televisions from lunatics. He writes: <blockquote>When the bad sister was a young woman, she and the nuts worked up designs for television cameras and transmitters and receivers. Then she got money from her very rich mom to manufacture these satanic devices, which made imaginations redundant. They were instantly popular because the shows were so attractive and no thinking was involved... Generations of Booboolings grew up without imaginations. . . . Without imaginations, though, they couldn't do what their ancestors had done, which was read interesting, heartwarming stories in the faces of one another. So . . . Booboolings became among the most merciless creatures in the local family of galaxies.<a href="#cite_note-147">[145]</a></blockquote>Against imagination-killing devices like televisions, and against electronic substitutes for embodied community, Vonnegut argued that "Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something."<a href="#cite_note-148">[146]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing">Writing</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Writing">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Influences">Influences</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Influences">edit</a>]</div> Vonnegut's writing was inspired by an eclectic mix of sources. When he was younger, Vonnegut stated that he read works of <a href="/wiki/Pulp_magazine" title="Pulp magazine">pulp fiction</a>, science fiction, fantasy, and action-adventure. He also read the <a href="/wiki/Classics" title="Classics">classics</a>, such as the plays of <a href="/wiki/Aristophanes" title="Aristophanes">Aristophanes</a>—like Vonnegut's works, humorous critiques of contemporary society.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200217–18-149">[147]</a> Vonnegut's life and work also share similarities with that of <a href="/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn" title="Adventures of Huckleberry Finn">Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</a> writer <a href="/wiki/Mark_Twain" title="Mark Twain">Mark Twain</a>. Both shared pessimistic outlooks on humanity and a skeptical take on religion and, as Vonnegut put it, were both "associated with the enemy in a major war", as Twain briefly enlisted in the South's cause during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, and Vonnegut's German name and ancestry connected him with the United States' enemy in both world wars.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200218-150">[148]</a> He also cited <a href="/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce" title="Ambrose Bierce">Ambrose Bierce</a> as an influence, calling "<a href="/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge" title="An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge">An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge</a>" the greatest American short story and deeming any who disagreed or had not read the story "twerps".<a href="#cite_note-151">[149]</a> Vonnegut called <a href="/wiki/George_Orwell" title="George Orwell">George Orwell</a> his favorite writer and admitted that he tried to emulate Orwell. "I like his concern for the poor, I like his socialism, I like his simplicity", Vonnegut said.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200219-152">[150]</a> Vonnegut also said that Orwell's <a href="/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four" title="Nineteen Eighty-Four">Nineteen Eighty-Four</a> and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley heavily influenced his <a href="/wiki/Debut_novel" title="Debut novel">debut novel</a>, Player Piano, in 1952. The novel also included ideas from mathematician <a href="/wiki/Norbert_Wiener" title="Norbert Wiener">Norbert Wiener</a>'s book <a href="/wiki/Cybernetics_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cybernetics (book)">Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStrand2015155–156-153">[151]</a> Vonnegut commented that <a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>'s stories were emblems of thoughtfully put together works that he tried to mimic in his own compositions.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061366-122">[120]</a> Vonnegut also hailed playwright and socialist <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> as "a hero of [his]" and an "enormous influence".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBarsamian200415-154">[152]</a> Within his own family, Vonnegut stated that his mother, Edith, had the greatest influence on him. "[My] mother thought she might make a new fortune by writing for the slick magazines. She took short-story courses at night. She studied writers the way gamblers study horses."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHaymanMichaelisPlimptonRhodes1977-155">[153]</a> Early on in his career, Vonnegut decided to model his style after <a href="/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau" title="Henry David Thoreau">Henry David Thoreau</a>, who wrote as if from the perspective of a child, allowing Thoreau's works to be more widely comprehensible.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200218-150">[148]</a> Using a youthful narrative voice allowed Vonnegut to deliver concepts in a modest and straightforward way.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200218–19-156">[154]</a> Other influences on Vonnegut include <a href="/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds" title="The War of the Worlds">The War of the Worlds</a> author <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a> and satirist <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Swift" title="Jonathan Swift">Jonathan Swift</a>. Vonnegut credited American journalist and critic <a href="/wiki/H._L._Mencken" title="H. L. Mencken">H. L. Mencken</a> for inspiring him to become a journalist.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061366-122">[120]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Style_and_technique">Style and technique</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Style and technique">edit</a>]</div> The book Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style by Kurt Vonnegut and his longtime friend and former student Suzanne McConnell, published posthumously by Rosetta Books and Seven Stories Press in 2019, delves into the style, humor, and methodologies Vonnegut employed, including his belief that one should "Write like a human being. Write like a writer."<a href="#cite_note-157">[155]</a><a href="#cite_note-158">[156]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1224211176"><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:30em; ;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> I've heard the Vonnegut voice described as "manic depressive", and there's certainly something to this. It has an incredible amount of energy married to a very deep and dark sense of despair. It's frequently over-the-top, and scathingly satirical, but it never strays too far from pathos—from an immense sympathy for society's vulnerable, oppressed and powerless. But, then, it also contains a huge allotment of warmth. Most of the time, reading Kurt Vonnegut feels more like being spoken to by a very close friend. There's an inclusiveness to his writing that draws you in, and his narrative voice is seldom absent from the story for any length of time. Usually, it's right there in the foreground—direct, involving and extremely idiosyncratic. </blockquote> <cite class="left-aligned" style=""><a href="/wiki/Gavin_Extence" title="Gavin Extence">Gavin Extence</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="The Huffington Post">The Huffington Post</a>, 2013<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEExtence2013-159">[157]</a></cite> </div> In his book Popular Contemporary Writers, Michael D. Sharp describes Vonnegut's linguistic style as straightforward, his sentences concise, his language simple, his paragraphs brief, and his ordinary tone conversational.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061364-138">[136]</a> Vonnegut uses this style to convey normally complex subject matter in a way that is intelligible to a large audience. He credited his time as a journalist for his ability and pointed to his work with the Chicago City News Bureau, which required him to convey stories in telephone conversations.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEExtence2013-159">[157]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061364-138">[136]</a> Vonnegut's compositions include distinct references to his own life, notably in Slaughterhouse-Five and Slapstick.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061363–1364-160">[158]</a> Vonnegut believed that ideas, and the convincing communication of those ideas to the reader, were vital to literary art. He did not always sugarcoat his points: much of Player Piano leads to the moment when Paul, on trial and hooked to a lie detector, is asked to tell a falsehood. Paul states: "every new piece of scientific knowledge is a good thing for humanity".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDavis200645–46-161">[159]</a> Robert T. Tally Jr., in his volume on Vonnegut's novels, wrote: "rather than tearing down and destroying the icons of twentieth-century, middle-class American life, Vonnegut gently reveals their basic flimsiness".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETally2011157-162">[160]</a> Vonnegut did not simply propose utopian solutions to the ills of American society but showed how such schemes would not allow ordinary people to live lives free from want and anxiety. The large, artificial U.S. families in Slapstick soon serve as an excuse for tribalism. People give no help to those not part of their group; the extended family's place in the social hierarchy becomes vital.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETally2011103–105-163">[161]</a> In the introduction to their essay "Kurt Vonnegut and Humor", Tally and Peter C. Kunze suggest that Vonnegut was not a "<a href="/wiki/Black_comedy" title="Black comedy">black humorist</a>", but a "frustrated idealist" who used "comic parables" to teach the reader absurd, bitter or hopeless truths, with his grim witticisms serving to make the reader laugh rather than cry. "Vonnegut makes sense through humor, which is, in the author's view, as valid a means of mapping this crazy world as any other strategies."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKunzeTally2012introduction-164">[162]</a> Vonnegut resented being called a black humorist, feeling that, as with many literary labels, it allows readers to disregard aspects of a writer's work that do not fit the label.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200216-165">[163]</a> Vonnegut's works have been labeled science fiction, <a href="/wiki/Satire" title="Satire">satire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Postmodern_literature" title="Postmodern literature">postmodern</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200213-166">[164]</a> He resisted such labels, but his works do contain common <a href="/wiki/Trope_(literature)" title="Trope (literature)">tropes</a> in those genres. In his books, Vonnegut imagines alien societies and civilizations, as is common in science fiction. Vonnegut emphasizes or exaggerates absurdities and idiosyncrasies.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200214–15-167">[165]</a> Furthermore, Vonnegut makes fun of problems, as satire does. However, literary theorist <a href="/wiki/Robert_Scholes" title="Robert Scholes">Robert Scholes</a> noted in Fabulation and Metafiction that Vonnegut "reject[s] the traditional satirist's faith in the efficacy of satire as a reforming instrument. [He has] a more subtle faith in the humanizing value of laughter."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200215-168">[166]</a> Postmodernism entails a response to the theory that science will reveal truths.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200216-165">[163]</a> Postmodernists contend that truth is subjective, rather than objective. Truth includes bias toward individual beliefs and outlooks on the world. Postmodernist writers use <a href="/wiki/Unreliable_narrator" title="Unreliable narrator">unreliable</a>, <a href="/wiki/First-person_narration" class="mw-redirect" title="First-person narration">first-person narration</a>, and narrative <a href="/wiki/Postmodern_literature#Fragmentation" title="Postmodern literature">fragmentation</a>. One critic has argued that Vonnegut's most famous novel, <a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</a>, features a <a href="/wiki/Metafiction" title="Metafiction">metafictional</a>, <a href="/wiki/Janus" title="Janus">Janus</a>-headed outlook and seeks to represent historical events while doubting the ability to represent history. Doubt is evident in the opening lines of the novel: "All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true." The bombastic opening—"All this happened"—"reads like a declaration of complete mimesis," which is radically called into question in the rest of the quote and "[t]his creates an integrated perspective that seeks out extratextual themes [like war and trauma] while thematizing the novel's textuality and inherent constructedness at one and the same time."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEJensen20168–11-169">[167]</a> Although Vonnegut does use fragmentation and metafiction in some of his works, he more distinctly focuses on the peril of individuals who find subjective truths, mistake them for objective truths, and proceed to impose these truths on other people.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200216–17-170">[168]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Themes">Themes</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Themes">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Economy">Economy</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Economy">edit</a>]</div> Vonnegut was a vocal critic of American society, and this was reflected in his writings. Several key social themes recur in Vonnegut's works, such as wealth, the lack of it, and its unequal distribution among a society. In The Sirens of Titan, the novel's protagonist, Malachi Constant, is exiled to <a href="/wiki/Saturn" title="Saturn">Saturn</a>'s moon <a href="/wiki/Titan_(moon)" title="Titan (moon)">Titan</a> as a result of his vast wealth, which has made him arrogant and wayward.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200219,_44–45-171">[169]</a> In God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, readers may find it difficult to determine whether the rich or the poor are in worse circumstances, as the lives of both groups' members are ruled by their wealth or their poverty.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200219-152">[150]</a> Further, in Hocus Pocus, the protagonist is named Eugene Debs Hartke, a homage to the famed socialist Eugene V. Debs and Vonnegut's socialist views.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061364-138">[136]</a> In Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion, Thomas F. Marvin states: "Vonnegut points out that, left unchecked, capitalism will erode the democratic foundations of the United States." Marvin suggests that Vonnegut's works demonstrate what happens when a "hereditary aristocracy" develops, where wealth is inherited along familial lines: the ability of poor Americans to overcome their situations is greatly or completely diminished.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200219-152">[150]</a> Vonnegut also often laments social Darwinism and a "survival of the fittest" view of society. He points out that social Darwinism leads to a society that condemns its poor for their own misfortune and fails to help them out of their poverty because "they deserve their fate".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061364–1365-136">[134]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Ethics_in_science">Ethics in science</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Ethics in science">edit</a>]</div> Science and the ethical obligations of scientists are also a common theme in Vonnegut's works. His first published story, "Report on the Barnhouse Effect", like many of his early stories, centered on a scientist concerned about the uses of his own invention.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStrand2015147–157-172">[170]</a> Player Piano and Cat's Cradle explore the effects on humans of scientific advances. In 1969, Vonnegut gave a speech to the American Association of Physics Teachers called "The Virtuous Physicist". Asked afterwards what a virtuous scientist was, Vonnegut replied, "one who declines to work on weapons."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEStrand2015245-173">[171]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Life">Life</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Life">edit</a>]</div> Vonnegut also confronts the idea of <a href="/wiki/Free_will" title="Free will">free will</a> in a number of his pieces. In Slaughterhouse-Five and Timequake the characters have no choice in what they do; in Breakfast of Champions, characters are very obviously stripped of their free will and even receive it as a gift; and in Cat's Cradle, Bokononism views free will as <a href="/wiki/Heresy" title="Heresy">heretical</a>.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061366-122">[120]</a> The majority of Vonnegut's characters are estranged from their actual families and seek to build replacement or extended families. For example, the engineers in Player Piano called their manager's spouse "Mom". In Cat's Cradle, Vonnegut devises two separate methods for loneliness to be combated: A "karass", which is a group of individuals appointed by God to do his will, and a "<a href="/wiki/Granfalloon" title="Granfalloon">granfalloon</a>", defined by Marvin as a "meaningless association of people, such as a fraternal group or a nation".<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200220-174">[172]</a> Similarly, in Slapstick, the US government codifies that all Americans are a part of large extended families.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061365-140">[138]</a> Fear of the losing one's purpose in life is a theme in Vonnegut's works. The Great Depression forced Vonnegut to witness the devastation many people felt when they lost their jobs, and while at General Electric, Vonnegut witnessed machines being built to take the place of human labor. He confronts these things in his works through references to the growing use of automation and its effects on human society. This is most starkly represented in his first novel, Player Piano, where many Americans are left purposeless and unable to find work, as machines replace human workers. Loss of purpose is also depicted in Galápagos, where a florist rages at her spouse for creating a robot able to do her job, and in Timequake, where an architect kills himself when replaced by computer software.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061365–1366-175">[173]</a> Suicide by fire is another common theme in Vonnegut's works; the author often returns to the theory that "many people are not fond of life". He uses this as an explanation for why humans have so severely damaged their environments and made devices such as <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" title="Nuclear weapon">nuclear weapons</a> that can make their creators extinct.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061365-140">[138]</a> In Deadeye Dick, Vonnegut features the <a href="/wiki/Neutron_bomb" title="Neutron bomb">neutron bomb</a>, which is designed to kill people, but leave buildings and structures untouched. He also uses this theme to demonstrate the recklessness of those who put powerful, apocalypse-inducing devices at the disposal of politicians.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200221-176">[174]</a> "What is the point of life?" is a question Vonnegut often pondered in his works. When one of Vonnegut's characters, Kilgore Trout, finds the question "What is the purpose of life?" written in a bathroom, his response is: "To be the eyes and ears and <a href="/wiki/Conscience" title="Conscience">conscience</a> of the Creator of the Universe, you fool." Marvin finds Trout's theory curious, given that Vonnegut was an atheist, and thus for him, there is no Creator to report back to, and comments that, "[as] Trout chronicles one meaningless life after another, readers are left to wonder how a compassionate creator could stand by and do nothing while such reports come in". In the <a href="/wiki/Epigraph_(literature)" title="Epigraph (literature)">epigraph</a> to Bluebeard, Vonnegut quotes his son Mark and gives an answer to what he believes is the meaning of life: "We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin200220-174">[172]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Tralfamadore">Tralfamadore</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Tralfamadore">edit</a>]</div> A <a href="/wiki/Fictional_planet" class="mw-redirect" title="Fictional planet">fictional planet</a> called <a href="/wiki/Tralfamadore" title="Tralfamadore">Tralfamadore</a> is a recurring motif in Vonnegut's works; a planet by that name is referenced in The Sirens of Titan, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse-Five, Hocus Pocus, and Timequake.<a href="#cite_note-Whitehead-177">[175]</a> It is variously depicted as being located outside of the Milky Way galaxy or being <a href="/wiki/Fictional_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Fictional fiction">fictional within the fiction itself</a>;<a href="#cite_note-Klinkowitz-178">[176]</a> in Slaughterhouse-Five, it is implied to be imaginary as a result of the protagonist losing his grip on reality.<a href="#cite_note-Simpson-179">[177]</a> A recurring characteristic of the inhabitants of Tralfamadore is their low esteem of humanity.<a href="#cite_note-Stableford-180">[178]</a><a href="#cite_note-Rushdie-181">[179]</a><a href="#cite_note-McMahon-182">[180]</a> According to Julia A. Whitehead, Vonnegut used the concept of an imagined planet inhabited by beings more enlightened than humans as an outlet for <a href="/wiki/Escapism" title="Escapism">escapism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Whitehead-177">[175]</a> By contrast, Lawrence R. Boer rejects the notion that the pessimism and fatalism of the Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five reflects the views of the author,<a href="#cite_note-Boer-183">[181]</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brian_Stableford" title="Brian Stableford">Brian Stableford</a> characterizes the different Tralfamadorian races in that book and The Sirens of Titan as "tiny-minded smartasses".<a href="#cite_note-Stableford-180">[178]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Awards and nominations">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Award</th> <th>Year</th> <th>Category</th> <th>Book</th> <th>Result</th> <th>Ref. </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/International_Fantasy_Award" title="International Fantasy Award">International Fantasy Award</a></td> <td>1953</td> <td>-</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)" title="Player Piano (novel)">Player Piano</a></td> <td>Nominated</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Writers_Guild_of_America_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers Guild of America Award">Writers Guild of America Award</a></td> <td>1960</td> <td>Television script</td> <td>"Auf Wiedersehen"</td> <td>Won</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Novel" title="Hugo Award for Best Novel">Hugo Award</a></td> <td>1960</td> <td>Best Novel</td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan" title="The Sirens of Titan">The Sirens of Titan</a></td> <td>Nominated</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-184">[182]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hugo Award</td> <td>1964</td> <td>Best Novel</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle" title="Cat's Cradle">Cat's Cradle</a></td> <td>Nominated</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-185">[183]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula Award</a></td> <td>1970</td> <td>Best Novel</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</a></td> <td>Nominated</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-186">[184]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hugo Award</td> <td>1970</td> <td>Best Novel</td> <td>Slaughterhouse-Five</td> <td>Nominated</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-187">[185]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Drama_Desk_Award" title="Drama Desk Award">Drama Desk Award</a></td> <td>1971</td> <td>Outstanding New Play</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Happy_Birthday,_Wanda_June" title="Happy Birthday, Wanda June">Happy Birthday, Wanda June</a></td> <td>Won</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Seiun_Award" title="Seiun Award">Seiun Award</a></td> <td>1973</td> <td>Foreign Novel</td> <td>The Sirens of Titan</td> <td>Won</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award_for_Best_Dramatic_Presentation" title="Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation">Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation</a></td> <td>1973</td> <td>Best Dramatic Presentation</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five_(film)" title="Slaughterhouse-Five (film)">Slaughterhouse-Five</a></td> <td>Won</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/John_W._Campbell_Memorial_Award_for_Best_Science_Fiction_Novel" title="John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel">John W. Campbell Award</a></td> <td>1986</td> <td>Best Science Fiction Novel</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel)" title="Galápagos (novel)">Galápagos</a></td> <td>Nominated</td> <td><a href="#cite_note-188">[186]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Audie_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Audie Award">Audie Award</a></td> <td>2009</td> <td>Short Stories/Collections</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Armageddon_in_Retrospect" title="Armageddon in Retrospect">Armageddon in Retrospect</a></td> <td>Won</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame">Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame</a></td> <td>2015</td> <td>-</td> <td>-</td> <td>Inducted</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td>Prometheus Hall of Fame award of the <a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Futurist_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian Futurist Society">Libertarian Futurist Society</a></td> <td>2019</td> <td>-</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron" title="Harrison Bergeron">Harrison Bergeron</a></td> <td>Inducted</td> <td>- </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Works">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut_bibliography" title="Kurt Vonnegut bibliography">Kurt Vonnegut bibliography</a></div> Unless otherwise cited, items in this list are taken from Thomas F. Marvin's 2002 book Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion, and the date in parentheses is the date the work was published:<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin2002157–158-189">[187]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Novels">Novels</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Novels">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Player_Piano_(novel)" title="Player Piano (novel)">Player Piano</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Sirens_of_Titan" title="The Sirens of Titan">The Sirens of Titan</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mother_Night" title="Mother Night">Mother Night</a> (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cat%27s_Cradle" title="Cat's Cradle">Cat's Cradle</a> (1963)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Mr._Rosewater" title="God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater">God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions" title="Breakfast of Champions">Breakfast of Champions</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slapstick_(novel)" title="Slapstick (novel)">Slapstick</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jailbird_(novel)" title="Jailbird (novel)">Jailbird</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deadeye_Dick" title="Deadeye Dick">Deadeye Dick</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel)" title="Galápagos (novel)">Galápagos</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bluebeard_(Vonnegut_novel)" title="Bluebeard (Vonnegut novel)">Bluebeard</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(novel)" title="Hocus Pocus (novel)">Hocus Pocus</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timequake" title="Timequake">Timequake</a> (1997)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Short_fiction_collections">Short fiction collections</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Short fiction collections">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canary_in_a_Cat_House" title="Canary in a Cat House">Canary in a Cat House</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House" title="Welcome to the Monkey House">Welcome to the Monkey House</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagombo_Snuff_Box" title="Bagombo Snuff Box">Bagombo Snuff Box</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Dr._Kevorkian" title="God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian">God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armageddon_in_Retrospect" title="Armageddon in Retrospect">Armageddon in Retrospect</a> (2008) – short stories and essays</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Look_at_the_Birdie" title="Look at the Birdie">Look at the Birdie</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/While_Mortals_Sleep_(book)" class="mw-redirect" title="While Mortals Sleep (book)">While Mortals Sleep</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/We_Are_What_We_Pretend_To_Be:_The_First_and_Last_Works" class="mw-redirect" title="We Are What We Pretend To Be: The First and Last Works">We Are What We Pretend to Be</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sucker%27s_Portfolio" title="Sucker's Portfolio">Sucker's Portfolio</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complete_Stories_(Vonnegut)" title="Complete Stories (Vonnegut)">Complete Stories</a> (2017)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plays">Plays</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Plays">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>The First Christmas Morning (1962)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fortitude_(play)" title="Fortitude (play)">Fortitude</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Happy_Birthday,_Wanda_June" title="Happy Birthday, Wanda June">Happy Birthday, Wanda June</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Between_Time_and_Timbuktu" title="Between Time and Timbuktu">Between Time and Timbuktu</a> (1972)</li> <li>Stones, Time and Elements (A Humanist Requiem) (1987)</li> <li>Make Up Your Mind (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%27Histoire_du_Soldat" class="mw-redirect" title="L'Histoire du Soldat">L'Histoire du Soldat</a> (1997)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Nonfiction">Nonfiction</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Nonfiction">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wampeters,_Foma_and_Granfalloons" title="Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons">Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palm_Sunday_(book)" title="Palm Sunday (book)">Palm Sunday</a> (1981)</li> <li>Nothing Is Lost Save Honor: Two Essays (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fates_Worse_Than_Death" title="Fates Worse Than Death">Fates Worse Than Death</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Man_Without_a_Country" title="A Man Without a Country">A Man Without a Country</a> (2005)<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2007-34">[32]</a></li> <li>Kurt Vonnegut: The Cornell Sun Years 1941–1943 (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/If_This_Isn%27t_Nice,_What_Is%3F:_Advice_to_the_Young" title="If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young">If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young</a> (2013)</li> <li>Vonnegut by the Dozen (2013)</li> <li>Kurt Vonnegut: Letters (2014)</li> <li>Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style (2019) with Suzanne McConnell</li> <li>Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941–1945 (2020) Editor Edith Vonnegut</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Interviews">Interviews</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Interviews">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (1988) with <a href="/wiki/William_Rodney_Allen" title="William Rodney Allen">William Rodney Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Like_Shaking_Hands_with_God:_A_Conversation_About_Writing" class="mw-redirect" title="Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing">Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation About Writing</a> (1999) with Lee Stringer</li> <li>Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations (2011)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Children's_books">Children's books</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Children's books">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Sun Moon Star (1980)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Art">Art</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Art">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Kurt Vonnegut Drawings (2014)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_peace_activists" title="List of peace activists">List of peace activists</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Explanatory_notes">Explanatory notes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Explanatory notes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output 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He also stated the Depression and its effects incited pessimism about the validity of the <a href="/wiki/American_Dream" title="American Dream">American Dream</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Sumner-10">[10]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a> Kurt Sr. was embittered by his own lack of work as an architect during the Great Depression and feared a similar fate for his son. He dismissed his son's desired areas of study as "junk jewellery" and persuaded his son against following in his footsteps.<a href="#cite_note-Farrell5Boomhower-14">[13]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Citations">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kurt-Vonnegut">"Kurt Vonnegut"</a>. Britannica. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220426040934/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Kurt-Vonnegut">Archived</a> from the original on April 26, 2022. Retrieved April 26, 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Britannica&rft.atitle=Kurt+Vonnegut&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.britannica.com%2Fbiography%2FKurt-Vonnegut&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1733.html">"City News Bureau"</a>. www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org. Retrieved June 15, 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org&rft.atitle=City+News+Bureau&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org%2Fpages%2F1733.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-BoomhowerFarrell4-5-3">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BoomhowerFarrell4-5_3-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-BoomhowerFarrell4-5_3-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-BoomhowerFarrell4-5_3-2">c</a> <a href="#CITEREFBoomhower1999">Boomhower 1999</a>; <a href="#CITEREFFarrell2009">Farrell 2009</a>, pp. 4–5. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEMarvin20022-4"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMarvin20022_4-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMarvin2002">Marvin 2002</a>, p. 2. </li> <li id="cite_note-Sharp1360-5">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Sharp1360_5-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Sharp1360_5-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFSharp2006">Sharp 2006</a>, p. 1360. </li> <li id="cite_note-Marvin2Farrell3-4-6"><a href="#cite_ref-Marvin2Farrell3-4_6-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMarvin2002">Marvin 2002</a>, p. 2; <a href="#CITEREFFarrell2009">Farrell 2009</a>, pp. 3–4. </li> <li id="cite_note-Marvin4-7"><a href="#cite_ref-Marvin4_7-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMarvin2002">Marvin 2002</a>, p. 4. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESharp20061360-8"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESharp20061360_8-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSharp2006">Sharp 2006</a>, p. 1360. </li> <li id="cite_note-Boomhower-9">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Boomhower_9-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Boomhower_9-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Boomhower_9-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Boomhower_9-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFBoomhower1999">Boomhower 1999</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Sumner-10"><a href="#cite_ref-Sumner_10-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSumner2014">Sumner 2014</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Sharp1360Marvin2-3-12"><a href="#cite_ref-Sharp1360Marvin2-3_12-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSharp2006">Sharp 2006</a>, p. 1360; <a href="#CITEREFMarvin2002">Marvin 2002</a>, pp. 2–3. </li> <li id="cite_note-Marvin2-3-13"><a href="#cite_ref-Marvin2-3_13-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFMarvin2002">Marvin 2002</a>, pp. 2–3. </li> <li id="cite_note-Farrell5Boomhower-14">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Farrell5Boomhower_14-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Farrell5Boomhower_14-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFFarrell2009">Farrell 2009</a>, p. 5; <a href="#CITEREFBoomhower1999">Boomhower 1999</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSumner2014">Sumner 2014</a>; <a href="#CITEREFFarrell2009">Farrell 2009</a>, p. 5. </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFShields2011">Shields 2011</a>, p. 41. </li> <li id="cite_note-Lowery2007-18"><a href="#cite_ref-Lowery2007_18-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFLowery2007">Lowery 2007</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-Farrell5-19"><a href="#cite_ref-Farrell5_19-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFFarrell2009">Farrell 2009</a>, p. 5. </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFShields2011">Shields 2011</a>, pp. 41–42. </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFShields2011">Shields 2011</a>, pp. 44–45. </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFShields2011">Shields 2011</a>, pp. 45–49. </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFShields2011">Shields 2011</a>, pp. 50–51. </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEFarrell20096-24"><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFarrell20096_24-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFFarrell2009">Farrell 2009</a>, p. 6. </li> <li id="cite_note-Farrell6-25">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Farrell6_25-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Farrell6_25-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Farrell6_25-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-Farrell6_25-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFFarrell2009">Farrell 2009</a>, p. 6; <a href="#CITEREFMarvin2002">Marvin 2002</a>, p. 3. </li> <li id="cite_note-Sharp1363Farrell6-26"><a href="#cite_ref-Sharp1363Farrell6_26-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFSharp2006">Sharp 2006</a>, p. 1363; <a href="#CITEREFFarrell2009">Farrell 2009</a>, p. 6. </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-27">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_27-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_27-1">b</a> <a href="#CITEREFVonnegut2008">Vonnegut 2008</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-TheParisReview-28">^ <a href="#cite_ref-TheParisReview_28-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-TheParisReview_28-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-TheParisReview_28-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-TheParisReview_28-3">d</a> <a href="#CITEREFHaymanMichaelisPlimptonRhodes1977">Hayman et al. 1977</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFBoomhower1999">Boomhower 1999</a>; <a href="#CITEREFFarrell2009">Farrell 2009</a>, pp. 6–7. </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVonnegut2006" class="citation interview cs1">Vonnegut, Kurt (April 6, 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=538&v=4bclBnx4cpk">"Kurt Vonnegut"</a>. Bookworm (Interview). Interviewed by <a href="/wiki/Michael_Silverblatt" title="Michael Silverblatt">Michael Silverblatt</a>. Santa Monica, California: KCRW. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230405004752/https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=538&v=4bclBnx4cpk">Archived</a> from the original on April 5, 2023. Retrieved October 6, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Bookworm&rft.atitle=Kurt+Vonnegut&rft.date=2006-04-06&rft.aulast=Vonnegut&rft.aufirst=Kurt&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Ft%3D538%26v%3D4bclBnx4cpk&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-DaltonSEP-31"><a href="#cite_ref-DaltonSEP_31-0">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFDalton2011">Dalton 2011</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a> <a href="#CITEREFThomas2006">Thomas 2006</a>, p. 7; <a href="#CITEREFShields2011">Shields 2011</a>, pp. 80–82. </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVonnegut1991" class="citation book cs1">Vonnegut, Kurt (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23253474">Fates worse than death: an autobiographical collage of the 1980s</a>. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. p. 122. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-399-13633-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-399-13633-7"><bdi>978-0-399-13633-7</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/23253474">23253474</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Fates+worse+than+death%3A+an+autobiographical+collage+of+the+1980s&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=122&rft.pub=G.+P.+Putnam%27s+Sons&rft.date=1991&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F23253474&rft.isbn=978-0-399-13633-7&rft.aulast=Vonnegut&rft.aufirst=Kurt&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldcat.org%2Foclc%2F23253474&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2007-34">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2007_34-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2007_34-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2007_34-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2007_34-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2007_34-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2007_34-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2007_34-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2007_34-7">h</a> <a href="#CITEREFSmith2007">Smith 2007</a>. </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://chronicle.uchicago.edu/940203/vonnegut.shtml">"Kurt Vonnegut to visit campus as Kovler Fellow"</a>. chronicle.uchicago.edu. 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Seven Stories Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58322-020-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58322-020-7"><bdi>978-1-58322-020-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=God+Bless+You%2C+Dr.+Kevorkian&rft.pub=Seven+Stories+Press&rft.date=1999&rft.isbn=978-1-58322-020-7&rft.aulast=Vonnegut&rft.aufirst=Kurt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVonnegut2008" class="citation news cs1">Vonnegut, Kurt (June 28, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150301212654/http://www.newsweek.com/kurt-vonnegut-his-time-pow-91061">"Kurt Vonnegut on His Time as a POW"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Newsweek" title="Newsweek">Newsweek</a>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.newsweek.com/kurt-vonnegut-his-time-pow-91061">the original</a> on March 1, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2015.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Newsweek&rft.atitle=Kurt+Vonnegut+on+His+Time+as+a+POW&rft.date=2008-06-28&rft.aulast=Vonnegut&rft.aufirst=Kurt&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fkurt-vonnegut-his-time-pow-91061&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVonnegut1982" class="citation book cs1">Vonnegut, Kurt (1982). Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage. Dell Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-440-57163-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-440-57163-6"><bdi>978-0-440-57163-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Palm+Sunday%3A+An+Autobiographical+Collage&rft.pub=Dell+Publishing&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=978-0-440-57163-6&rft.aulast=Vonnegut&rft.aufirst=Kurt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVonnegut2009" class="citation book cs1">Vonnegut, Kurt (2009). Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage. Random House Publishing. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-56806-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-307-56806-9"><bdi>978-0-307-56806-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Palm+Sunday%3A+An+Autobiographical+Collage&rft.pub=Random+House+Publishing&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-307-56806-9&rft.aulast=Vonnegut&rft.aufirst=Kurt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFVonnegut2006a" class="citation book cs1">Vonnegut, Kurt (2006). Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons. Dial Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-385-33381-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-385-33381-8"><bdi>978-0-385-33381-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Wampeters%2C+Foma+%26+Granfalloons&rft.pub=Dial+Press&rft.date=2006&rft.isbn=978-0-385-33381-8&rft.aulast=Vonnegut&rft.aufirst=Kurt&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWolff1987" class="citation news cs1">Wolff, Gregory (October 25, 1987). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/25/books/a-wildly-improbable-gang-of-nine.html">"A Wildly Improbable Gang of Nine"</a>. <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a>. 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Seven Stories Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58322-916-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58322-916-3"><bdi>978-1-58322-916-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Voices+of+A+People%27s+History+of+the+United+States&rft.pub=Seven+Stories+Press&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-1-58322-916-3&rft.aulast=Zinn&rft.aufirst=Howard&rft.au=Arnove%2C+Anthony&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AKurt+Vonnegut" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><div class="side-box metadata side-box-right"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"> <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Library" title="Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library">Library resources</a> about Kurt Vonnegut <hr /></div> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=wp&su=Kurt+Vonnegut&library=OLBP">Online books</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=wp&su=Kurt+Vonnegut">Resources in your library</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?st=wp&su=Kurt+Vonnegut&library=0CHOOSE0">Resources in other libraries</a></li> </ul></div></div> <div class="side-box-abovebelow">By Kurt Vonnegut <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?at=wp&au=Kurt+Vonnegut&library=OLBP">Online books</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?at=wp&au=Kurt+Vonnegut">Resources in your library</a></li> <li><a class="external text" href="https://ftl.toolforge.org/cgi-bin/ftl?at=wp&au=Kurt+Vonnegut&library=0CHOOSE0">Resources in other libraries</a></li></ul> </div></div> </div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cairns_Craig" title="Cairns Craig">Craig, Cairns</a> (1983), "An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut", in Hearn, Sheila G. (ed.), <a href="/wiki/Cencrastus" title="Cencrastus">Cencrastus</a> No. 13, Summer 1983, pp. 29–32, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/search?fq=x0:jrnl&q=n2:0264-0856">0264-0856</a>.</li> <li>Oltean-Cîmpean, A. A. (2016). "Kurt Vonnegut's Humanism: An Author's Journey Towards Preaching for Peace". Studii De Ştiintă Şi Cultură, 12(2), 259–266.</li> <li>Párraga, J. J. (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/futhark/article/view/16024">"Kurt Vonnegut's Quest for Identity"</a>. Revista Futhark, 8185–8199.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Kurt_Vonnegut&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/">Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/9812">Works by Kurt Vonnegut</a> at <a href="/wiki/Project_Gutenberg" title="Project Gutenberg">Project Gutenberg</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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Bless You, Mr. Rosewater</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five" title="Slaughterhouse-Five">Slaughterhouse-Five</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions" title="Breakfast of Champions">Breakfast of Champions</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slapstick_(novel)" title="Slapstick (novel)">Slapstick</a> (1976)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jailbird_(novel)" title="Jailbird (novel)">Jailbird</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deadeye_Dick" title="Deadeye Dick">Deadeye Dick</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_(novel)" title="Galápagos (novel)">Galápagos</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bluebeard_(Vonnegut_novel)" title="Bluebeard (Vonnegut novel)">Bluebeard</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hocus_Pocus_(novel)" title="Hocus Pocus (novel)">Hocus Pocus</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timequake" title="Timequake">Timequake</a> (1997)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novellas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/God_Bless_You,_Dr._Kevorkian" title="God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian">God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/We_Are_What_We_Pretend_to_Be:_The_First_and_Last_Works" title="We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works">We Are What We Pretend to Be: The First and Last Works</a> (2013)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collected short fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Canary_in_a_Cat_House" title="Canary in a Cat House">Canary in a Cat House</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Monkey_House" title="Welcome to the Monkey House">Welcome to the Monkey House</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bagombo_Snuff_Box" title="Bagombo Snuff Box">Bagombo Snuff Box</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armageddon_in_Retrospect" title="Armageddon in Retrospect">Armageddon in Retrospect</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Look_at_the_Birdie" title="Look at the Birdie">Look at the Birdie</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/While_Mortals_Sleep_(short_story_collection)" title="While Mortals Sleep (short story collection)">While Mortals Sleep</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sucker%27s_Portfolio" title="Sucker's Portfolio">Sucker's Portfolio</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Complete_Stories_(Vonnegut)" title="Complete Stories (Vonnegut)">Complete Stories</a> (2017)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Collected non-fiction</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wampeters,_Foma_and_Granfalloons" title="Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons">Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Palm_Sunday_(book)" title="Palm Sunday (book)">Palm Sunday</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fates_Worse_Than_Death" title="Fates Worse Than Death">Fates Worse Than Death</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Man_Without_a_Country" title="A Man Without a Country">A Man Without a Country</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Armageddon_in_Retrospect" title="Armageddon in Retrospect">Armageddon in Retrospect</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut:_Letters" title="Kurt Vonnegut: Letters">Kurt Vonnegut: Letters</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/If_This_Isn%27t_Nice,_What_Is%3F:_Advice_to_the_Young" title="If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young">If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice to the Young</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vonnegut_by_the_Dozen" title="Vonnegut by the Dozen">Vonnegut by the Dozen</a> (2013)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays/screenplays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Fortitude_(play)" title="Fortitude (play)">Fortitude</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Happy_Birthday,_Wanda_June" title="Happy Birthday, Wanda June">Happy Birthday, Wanda June</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Between_Time_and_Timbuktu" title="Between Time and Timbuktu">Between Time and Timbuktu</a> (1972)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Interviews</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Like_Shaking_Hands_with_God" title="Like Shaking Hands with God">Like Shaking Hands with God</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Adaptations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Happy_Birthday,_Wanda_June" title="Happy Birthday, Wanda June">Happy Birthday, Wanda June</a> (1971)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slaughterhouse-Five_(film)" title="Slaughterhouse-Five (film)">Slaughterhouse-Five</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Between_Time_and_Timbuktu" title="Between Time and Timbuktu">Between Time and Timbuktu</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Next_Door_(1975_film)" title="Next Door (1975 film)">Next Door</a> (1975)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut%27s_God_Bless_You,_Mr._Rosewater" title="Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater">Kurt Vonnegut's God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slapstick_of_Another_Kind" title="Slapstick of Another Kind">Slapstick of Another Kind</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Who_Am_I_This_Time%3F_(film)" title="Who Am I This Time? (film)">Who Am I This Time?</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Displaced_Person_(American_Playhouse)" title="Displaced Person (American Playhouse)">Displaced Person</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut%27s_Monkey_House" title="Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House">Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron_(film)" title="Harrison Bergeron (film)">Harrison Bergeron</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mother_Night_(film)" title="Mother Night (film)">Mother Night</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Breakfast_of_Champions_(film)" title="Breakfast of Champions (film)">Breakfast of Champions</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2081_(film)" title="2081 (film)">2081</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2BR02B:_To_Be_or_Naught_to_Be" title="2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be">2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be</a> (2016)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Characters and concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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