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	Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vonnegut is a self-proclaimed humanist and socialist (influenced by the style of Indiana's own Eugene V. Debs) and has recently done a print advertisement for the American Civil Liberties Union.
		In much of his work Vonnegut's own voice is apparent, often filtered through the character of science fiction author Kilgore Trout (based on real-life science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon), characterized by wild leaps of imagination and a deep cynicism tempered by humanism.
		Vonnegut did, however, play himself in a cameo in 1986 's Back To School, starring Rodney Dangerfield, and is invoked as a pop culture reference in many teen flicks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut (1491 words)

	KURT VONNEGUT FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Vonnegut is a self-proclaimed humanist and socialist (influenced by the style of Indiana's own Eugene_V._Debs) and has recently done a print advertisement for the American_Civil_Liberties_Union.
		In much of his work Vonnegut's own voice is apparent, often filtered through the character of science fiction author Kilgore_Trout (based on real-life science_fiction writer Theodore_Sturgeon), characterized by wild leaps of imagination and a deep cynicism tempered by humanism.
		Vonnegut did, however, play himself in a cameo in 1986 's ''Back To School'', starring Rodney_Dangerfield, and is invoked as a pop culture reference in many teen flicks.
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	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.: So it goes.
		Vonnegut and the other POWs, along with most of their German stewards – the only real military personnel in the city – survived the fire-bombing by remaining in the underground meat locker they were being held in, which was protected from the heat and smoke above: Slaughterhouse-Five.
		Vonnegut was disappointed because the worst reaction to the film came from the PEN members who were given a special advance showing.
		Vonnegut says that Alex used to tell him to take time out to recognize the things people usually take for granted and say, "If this isn't nice, what is?" and then goes on to say that Uncle Alex "said that when things were really going well we should be sure to notice it" (Timequake, 12).
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	Kurt Vonnegut and Happy Birthday Wanda June
		Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 11, 1922, to Kurt Vonnegut Sr.
		Vonnegut’s mother had inherited a brewery, and his father was an architect in Indianapolis, whose buildings included the All Souls Unitarian Church in Indianapolis, the signature Art Deco buildings for Indiana Bell, new buildings for Hooks Drugstores prior to World War II, and the Anderson Bank building in Anderson.
		In 1944, Vonnegut was sent to Europe and was captured during the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/2004/wanda_june/vonnegut.html (1211 words)

	NovelGuide: Slaughterhouse-Five: Biography
		Vonnegut’s father was an architect and his mother a member of a socially prominent family in the area.
		Vonnegut went to Europe as an advance infantry scout and arrived in time to experience the last major German offensive of the war during the course of which he is taken prisoner and sent to Dresden to work in the factories.
		Vonnegut began to experiment with dramatic works and non-fiction during the 1970’s and during this time he was awarded his M.A. in Anthropology by the University of Chicago after the school determined that Vonnegut’s 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle qualified as a thesis.
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	Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
		Vonnegut's vision of the fantastic as it occurs in everyday life was influenced by a series of tragic events as a young man. His mother committed suicide on Mother's Day in 1944 while Vonnegut was home on leave.
		In December of 1944, while on a patrol, Vonnegut was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge.
		Vonnegut called the work an anti-war book, although he downplayed its influence on society, saying, "Anti-war books are as likely to stop war as anti-glacier books are to stop glaciers." He has since become one of the most popular guest lecturers at universities across the country.
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	Vonnegut The Man and His Work by Zak Danks
		Vonnegut fought in the battle of the Bulge as a scout for the 106th US Infantry Division, after which he was taken prisoner by the Germans.
		Vonnegut hides the pain caused by his father's death also in Breakfast of Champions by portraying Hoover's son to be gay, which breaks down their father-son relationship.
		Vonnegut is trying to say that people should do all they can to improve on their personal strengths, letting nothing stand in their way.
	www.logantele.com /~lchs/lchs/Independent/Vonnegut_The_Man_and_His_Work-Zak_Danks.html (1551 words)

	Miss Temptation by Kurt Vonnegut Free Essays
		Kurt Vonnegut, born on November 11, 1922 to Kurt and Edith Vonnegut, spent a majority of his life writing.
		Kurt Vonnegut’s "Cat’s Cradle" is an exceptional book due to the way the author unfolds the intricate plot, the means by which the narrator introduces a variety of round, colorful characters, and the satirical humor used throughout the story.
		Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut has been called a genius, a fraud, a psychotic, and even a guru throughout his achievement filled life by many different people from all different walks of life.
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	Edith Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She is the daughter of novelist Kurt Vonnegut and was once married to television personality Geraldo Rivera.
		Edith was named after Kurt Vonnegut's mother: Edith Lieber.
		Edith is the sister of Mark Vonnegut and Nannette Vonnegut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edith_Vonnegut (93 words)

	The Writings Of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
		To the young Vonnegut, Cornell itself was a "boozy dream," partly because of the alcohol he imbibed and also because he found himself enrolled in classes for which he had no talent.
		Although Vonnegut received instruction on the 240-millimeter howitzer, which he later dubbed the ultimate terror weapon of the Franco-Prussian War, he eventually ended up as a battalion intelligence scout with the 106th Infantry Division, which was based at Camp Atterbury, just south of Indianapolis.
		Edith Vonnegut had grown increasingly depressed over her family's lost fortune and her inability to remake that fortune by selling fiction to popular magazines of the day.
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	BBC - h2g2 - Kurt Vonnegut - Author
		Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on 11 November, 1922.
		Vonnegut and his comrades were saved because they were securely billeted in an underground meat locker within the eponymous slaughterhouse.
		Vonnegut's novels are full of random tragedy: the accidental shooting of a woman by a 12-year-old boy (Deadeye Dick), the execution of the kindly Major Danby for looting a teapot (Slaughterhouse 5), the accidental destruction of life on earth (Cat's Cradle).
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	Kurt Vonnegut
		Kurt Vonnegut is best known for his novels and short stories, but he has also received recognititon for plays and essays he has written.
		Vonnegut has also been a popular choice as a speaker – for events, causes or college commencement.
		Vonnegut is most often classified as a writer of science fiction and as a satirist.
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	Indiana Historical Society
		Fourth-generation Germans, the Vonnegut children were raised with little, if any, knowledge about their German heritage--a legacy, Kurt believed, of the anti-German feelings vented during World War I. With America's entry into the Great War on the side of the Allies, anything associated with Germany became suspect.
		With wild fl humor mixed with his innate pessimism and particular brand of compassion, Vonnegut asks his readers not to give up on their humanity, even when faced with potential disaster -- offering as an example Lot's wife who was turned into a pillar of salt for daring to look back at her former home.
		Although Vonnegut considered the book a failure -- it had to be, he said, as it "was written by a pillar of salt" -- the public disagreed.
	www.indianahistory.org /pop_hist/people/kv.html (3374 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Writers Online Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 3
		In that earlier activity, Kurt Vonnegut, upon reaching the podium remarked that he felt that it was like the Golden Globes, which occurred just yesterday.
		The Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction Writers and the Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for Poets are administered under the aegis of the Writers Institute.
		Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, and he went to high school there, then he went to the war, Dresden, as you all know, Slaughterhouse Five, and then he went to Chicago to study anthropology.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/olv5n3.html (4693 words)

	Indianapolis Art Center
		Vonnegut’s prints are occasionally based on characters from his novels but more often derive from forms, images and ideas that interest him.
		Edith Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s daughter, studied art at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and the University of Iowa.
		Edith is the author of a book of her paintings named Domestic Goddesses (2000) and continues to create new work based on heroic images of women accomplishing everyday tasks.
	www.indplsartcenter.org /html/press_vonnegut.html (773 words)

	American Literature Web Resources: Vonnegut
		Vonnegut was deeply anti-automation, as he feared that with nothing to do man would lose his sense of worth.
		Vonnegut wrote 14 novels, a few short stories, and other literature that is listed above.
		He was truly one of the great American writers and if he were to take the test of time he would surely pass it as his works speak on a deep universal level.
	www.millikin.edu /aci/crow/chronology/vonnegutbio.html (706 words)

	MSN Encarta - Literature Guide - Harrison Bergeron
		was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the third child and second son of Kurt Vonnegut and Edith Lieber Vonnegut.
		The Vonneguts were successful architects, and they and the Liebers were respected members of the Indianapolis community for generations.
		Vonnegut was born into a large and supportive extended family, but when he turned nine years old, the social and economic fortunes of his family changed radically.
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	BBC - h2g2 - Kurt Vonnegut: author
		Although Vonnegut's work employs many fantastical flights of fancy, his work is informed by and deeply rooted in his background and experience.
		Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on 11 November, 1922 to Kurt, an architect, and Edith Lieber, both of German immigrant stock.
		Vonnegut's novels are full of random tragedy: the accidental shooting of a woman by a twelve year old boy (Deadeye Dick); the execution of the kindly Major Danby for looting a teapot (Slaughterhouse 5); the accidental destruction of life on earth (Cat's Cradle)
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	FAST-US-1 (TRENPP2A) American English Second Papers
		The author was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University.
		Vonnegut frequently uses time-shift, which allows the readers to make connections of causality and irony between widely separated events.
		Vonnegut often uses this kind of repetition to indicate strong emotions and to add coherence in texts.
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	Search Tuna Report for Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut 1922- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr....
		Vonnegut's second and third novels, The Sirens of Titan 1959 and Mother Night 1961, increased his popularity among a small but dedicated following, but with the publication of his fourth novel, Cat's Cradle 1963, Vonnegut began to draw serious critical attention and broader popular appeal....
		Kilgore Trout has been seen as Vonnegut's alter ego, the embodiment perhaps of his worst fears of what he might have become in those early years when he was dismissed as a science fiction writer and not re-viewed....
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	The Writigns Of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
		In Indianapolis, the city orchestra disbanded because its soprano soloist was German; city restaurants renamed kartoffel salade as Liberty cabbage; the Deutche Haus became the Athenaeum; and the board of education stopped the teaching of German in schools.
		Along with instilling Vonnegut with a strong sense of ideals and pacifism, his time in Indianapolis's schools started him on the path to a writing career.
		Freed from captivity by Russian troops, Vonnegut returned to the United States and married Jane Marie Cox on Sept. 1, 1945.
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	KURT VONNEGUT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis, that Vonnegut first began to express his writing talents, as the editor of the school newspaper.
		It was Vonnegut's novels that gained him critical acclaim and a rabid following in the late sixties and seventies.
		Kurt Vonnegut has also written two autobiographical books, Palm Sunday, in 1981, and Fates Worse than Death, in 1991, but true to his form, neither follows the path of a true biography.
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	Art in America: Edith Vonnegut at Pepper - Boston, Massachusetts - Review of Exhibitions
		Edith Vonnegut's narrative paintings recast the classical goddesses in wry contemporary domestic dramas.
		In her recent show, "Women, Angels and Domestic Goddesses," her first in Boston, Vonnegut continues her gentle mixing of gender politics, art-historical satire and sensitivity to the female nude with a witty, fantasy-filled Erma Bombeck-type appreciation for mothering and housework.
		Vonnegut's relentlessly anachronistic style is part of the joke, of course, but it's also why her work is so universally appealing.
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	Biography
		Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indiana in 1922, which was just the start of a tragedy-ridden life.
		After becoming a prisoner of war, he was taken to Dresden where he was forced to work in a factory that was formerly a slaughterhouse.
		Vonnegut's sister Alice died of cancer, just one day after her husband was killed in an unprecedented train crash.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~jhein/biography.htm (260 words)

	KURT VONNEGUT: Chronology
		Kurt Vonnegut and Edith Lieber, the parents of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., marry in Indianapolis, IN.
		Vonnegut captured during the Battle of the Bulge while a battalion scout with the 106 Infantry Division.
		Though factually flawed, the piece captured Vonnegut's prior, largely unnoticed writings, for a national readership arguing they were the work of a serious young writer.
	www.vonnegutweb.com /vonnegutia/chronology.html (1188 words)

	THE VONNEGUT ZONE: Frequently Asked Questions
		Obviously there are a lack of Vonnegut Sites available, or one would not come upon this cheezy geocities personal page.
		I imagine that people like Vonnegut's work as much as I do, so I figured I'd share what I had on him and his novels.
		Surviving the end: Apocalypse, evolution, and entropy in Bernard Malamud, Kurt Vonnegut, and...
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	kurt vonnegut Free Essays
		He is also one of the few people from any country that survived.
		Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Too Equal Society The society that the story “Harrison Bergeron” portrays, is one with no passion, no spirit, merely one with no individuality.
		Kurt Vonnegut has written more then twenty books in the years he has been writing.
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	NYS Writers Institute at UAlbany Names State Author, Poet
		Vonnegut will receive the New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for fiction writers and Ashbery will receive the New York State Walt Whitman Citation of Merit for poets.
		A resident of New York City, Vonnegut is widely regarded as one of the great satirists of American literature.
		Vonnegut is perhaps best known for the novel Slaughterhouse Five (1969), which was recently ranked at No. 18 on the Modern Library’s list of the top 100 novels of the 20th century.
	www.albany.edu /feature2000/12-11/author_poet.html (601 words)

	The Complete Kurt Vonnegut Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		is born November 11 to Kurt Vonnegut, Sr.
		Edith Lieber Vonnegut commits suicide May 14, Kurt returns home briefly; Kurt captured in December during Battle of the Bulge
		Son Mark (1947) and daughter Edith (1949) are born; Worked as publicist for General Electric in Schenectady, NY Quit GE and moved to Cape Cod to write
	kurt-vonnegut.com /timeline.shtml (375 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut -- Vonnegut.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The catalogue has been signed in ink by Ralph Steadman, Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Petro lll, printmaker, and Rachael Sadinsky, Curator of the University of Kentucky Art Museum.
		Catalogue is embossed with printers chop mark and numbered in ink 1/50 through 50/50.
		Signed and numbered by Ralph Steadman and Kurt Vonnegut 1/50 through 50/50.
	www.vonnegut.com /books.asp (156 words)

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