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	Kurt Vonnegut -- Vonnegut.com
		Vonnegut also experimented with smaller etchings, whose subjects were often self portraits, usually profiles with bushy hair and drooping cigarette, roughly similar to the one that appears at the end of Breakfast of Champions.
		As Vonnegut describes it, writing is labor, and the writer's reward arrives when he or she hands the manuscript to the editor and says, "It's yours.
		Vonnegut enjoys the work of Paul Klee and Georges Braque, calling the latter "a special hero," and is intrigued by what the cubists did in "breaking up the chaotic into geometric forms, pleasing shapes" (Vonnegut 10/18/95).
	www.vonnegut.com /artist.asp (3961 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut - MSN Encarta
		Vonnegut insists that humans have no choice but to view modern civilization with a mixture of sadness and humor and that the cruelty of life must be countered with a genuine charity for human weakness.
		Captured by German forces during the Battle of the Bulge that same year, Vonnegut was held prisoner in a slaughterhouse in the German city of Dresden.
		Vonnegut announced his retirement from writing in 1994 but later reneged with the partly autobiographical Timequake (1997) and A Man Without A Country (2005), a collection of articles first published mainly in the alternative magazine In These Times, where Vonnegut is a senior editor.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572520/Kurt_Vonnegut.html (784 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Kurt Vonnegut, New York State Author
		When he emerged the next morning, Vonnegut was put to work pulling corpses from the ruins of the desolated city once known as "the Venice of the North." In one night the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden killed more people than the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, more than 135,000 in all.
		Vonnegut's first-hand experiences of this, one of the darkest episodes in human history, would later provide the basis for his most influential work, Slaughterhouse Five (1969), though it would take him more than twenty years to come to terms with his wartime experiences and complete the novel.
		Kurt Vonnegut has helped to extend the range of the American novel through his innovations in tone, style, and form.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/vonnegutkurt.html (902 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut said, “the people in a country called Germany were so full of bad chemicals for a while that they actually built factories whose only purpose was to kill people by the millions.
		Vonnegut reminds us that millions of human beings had been living in the Western Hemisphere and that 1492 “was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them”(10).
		Kurt Vonnegut continues this critical tradition by reminding us of all that is wrong with humanity and society today, writing with a style that takes subservient role to his substance.
	www.mccallie.org /clatham/Importeddocuments/Sibley_Vonnegut/vonnegut.htm (2241 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vonnegut is a Humanist; he currently serves as Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having replaced Isaac Asimov in what Vonnegut calls "that totally functionless capacity".
		Vonnegut played himself in a cameo in 1986's Back To School and is invoked as a pop culture reference in many teen flicks such as Can't Hardly Wait, in which the character Preston (Ethan Embry) is bound for Massachusetts to attend a writing seminar by the acclaimed author.
		On February 4, 2006, Kurt Vonnegut was asked to a senior prom by a girl named Mary during an appearance at the Bushnell in Hartford, Connecticut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut (2534 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut - a Star Library biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis Nov. 11, 1922 to Kurt and Edith (Lieber) Vonnegut Sr.
		Vonnegut was in Dresden when the city was virtually destroyed by an intense Allied bombing campaign.
		Vonnegut married Jane Cox, a childhood sweetheart in 1945.
	www2.indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/v/vonnegut_kurt/vonnegut.html (494 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut- Page 13 Miissing, the Life and Death of Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut with the sense of camaraderie that comes from a joining of the minds, the unspoken understanding of the human frailty, and with a knowledge of how much more my books would be worth if they were signed.
		Vonnegut is the king of biting cynicism and fl humor while expounding on the subject of human stupidity.
		Vonnegut is the only writer I know who can spend an evening talking about the most depressing things like war, famine and baby burning, and leave audience members walking away with a smile on their face.
	www.wordsareimportant.com /kurtvonnegut.htm (1981 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut couches this question in an entertaining tale of natural selection where humankind as we know it meets its end and everybody is better off for it.
		Vonnegut sheds the shackles of convention and offers a surprisingly upbeat and optimistic pastiche of fiction, memoir, and metaphysics which pokes and probes the question of free will.
		Vonnegut claims it will be his last book, but he probably doesn't have a choice in the matter.
	www.zverina.com /bestbooks/vonnegut.htm (905 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut's Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was born on the eleventh day of November, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
		Vonnegut and the other POW's survived the bombing as they waited it out deep in the cellar of a slaughterhouse, where they were quartered.
		Vonnegut was repatriated on May 22, 1945, and on September first of that year he married Jane Marie Cox, a friend since kindergarten, for he thought, "'Who but a wife would sleep with me?'" (J 10).
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/4953/kv_bio.html (724 words)

	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).
	www.wdog.com /rider/writings/KVJ_soitgoes.htm (5048 words)

	Counterculture author, icon Kurt Vonnegut Jr. dies at 84 - The Boston Globe
		Kurt Vonnegut Jr., whose blend of absurdist humor, science fiction, and antiestablishment politics made his novels "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle" campus classics in the '60s and '70s, died last night in Manhattan.
		Vonnegut survived the bombing of the city only because he was on a work detail in a refrigerated meat locker three stories beneath the ground.
		Vonnegut leaves three children from his first marriage, Edith, Nanette, and Mark; one from his second marriage, Lily ; and three nephews, Tiger, Jim, and Steven, whom he adopted after his sister and her husband died within days of each other.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2007/04/12/counterculture_author_icon_kurt_vonnegut_jr_dies_at_84 (852 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Kurt Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On December 14, 1944, Vonnegut was captured in the Battle of the Bulge.
		Twenty years later, Vonnegut showed the department Cat's Cradle, and he was given his degree in 1971.) Vonnegut worked various jobs during his time at the University of Chicago and throughout the 1950s.
		Vonnegut has expressed some dissatisfaction with his short stories, saying that he mostly wrote them for money while working on his novels, which are more important to him.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_kurt_vonnegut.html (594 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut was a prisoner of war in Dresden on February 13, 1945 when the city, a cultural center of no military value, was destroyed by Allied incendiary bombs, and in Slaughterhouse-Five Vonnegut, who was born on Armistice Day 1922, focuses on the particularly human madness of war.
		Vonnegut's outrage over Dresden was as much a result of the lack of attention given to this event as it was to the bloodshed, but there are no villains in Vonnegut's novels, and he fully recognizes the ambiguous connection between agent and victim.
		Vonnegut openly addresses himself in the role of creator "on a par with the Creator of the Universe," and with a Prospero-like gesture releases the characters from his earlier fiction.
	lfa.atu.edu /Brucker/Vonnegut.html (3125 words)

	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.
		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.
	www.indianahistory.org /pop_hist/people/kv.html (3393 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut's characterization of WWII, and all wars, as a "children's crusade", coupled with his sardonic depiction of the horrors of war, provided a potent antidote to patriotism and the Hollywood glamorization of battle.
		Although Vonnegut's output in novels has slowed, and although he is now in his mid 80s, he continues to actively express his views in a variety of articles, essays, and columns.
		Although Vonnegut's acerbic wit and artistic nonconformity has been decried by those preferring more genteel literature and greater political correctness, he is widely acknowledged by fans for his unique voice and for his commitment to abandoning social convention in favor of common human decency.
	www.nndb.com /people/928/000022862 (1781 words)

	cbs5.com - Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Dies At 84
		Vonnegut, who often marveled that he had lived so long despite his lifelong smoking habit, had suffered brain injuries after a fall at his Manhattan home weeks ago, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.
		Vonnegut was born on Nov. 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, a "fourth-generation German-American religious skeptic Freethinker," and studied chemistry at Cornell University before joining the Army.
		Vonnegut said the villains in his books were never individuals, but culture, society and history, which he said were making a mess of the planet.
	cbs5.com /topstories/local_story_102030003.html (1162 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut - a Star Library biography
		Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis Nov. 11, 1922 to Kurt and Edith (Lieber) Vonnegut Sr.
		Vonnegut was in Dresden when the city was virtually destroyed by an intense Allied bombing campaign.
		Vonnegut married Jane Cox, a childhood sweetheart in 1945.
	indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/v/vonnegut_kurt/vonnegut.html (494 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of a successful architect.
		Although many critics attribute Vonnegut's classification as a science-fiction writer to a complete misunderstanding of his aims, the element of fantasy is nevertheless one of the most notable features of his early works.
		Vonnegut described Slaughterhouse-Five as a novel he was compelled to write, since it is based on one of the most extraordinary and significant events of his life.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/kurt-vonnegut-jr (1225 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut's first novel Player Piano was published in 1952, and his novels, stories and essays began to appear regularly in the years that followed.
		Kurt Vonnegut's "explosive meditation" of a novel Breakfast of Champions (1973) is subtitled "Goodbye Blue Monday!" It is peppered with simple, childlike illustrations drawn by the author, and it tells a crazy-quilt story that eventually defies the constraints of the novel format itself.
		Vonnegut went on to write novels that perhaps had greater formal skill and technique, but Player Piano is a tour de force of imaginative insight into modern life and a shrewd satire of American progress.
	www.fictionwise.com /servlet/mw?t=author&ai=3661&id=358974 (786 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut \| Obituaries \| guardian.co.uk Books
		Vonnegut, who wrote 14 novels, managed to combine an exceptional humanity with a remarkably blasé pessimism, and presented his despair at human life in such engagingly simple terms that even Charlie Brown would have found it persuasive.
		Vonnegut was never happy with the label of 'science-fiction writer', which he described as being put into a drawer that "serious" critics use as a urinal.
		Vonnegut's father once complained that there were no bad guys in his books, and Vonnegut attributed his largely blame-free world view to having studied 1940s anthropology, with its total relativism and deliberate lack of value judgments, as well as its sense of human cultures and religions as arbitrary artifacts and "Rube Goldberg inventions".
	books.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,2055622,00.html (1675 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s best known work is SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (1969), which was based on his experiences in Dresden, Germany, where he was a prisoner-of-war at the destruction of the town in 1945.
		Vonnegut used fantasy and science fiction to examine the horrors and absurdities of 20th century civilization.
		Kurt Vonnegut died on April 11, 2007, in Manhattan, New York, after suffering irreversible brain injuries as a result of a fall at his home.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /vonnegut.htm (1628 words)

	NOW. Arts & Culture. Kurt Vonnegut \| PBS
		Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922, the son of a successful architect.
		Vonnegut and fellow Allied POWs took shelter in an underground meat locker.
		Among Vonnegut's post-war occupations were crime reporter on a Chicago newspaper, publicist for the General Electric Corporation and SAAB car salesman.
	www.pbs.org /now/arts/vonnegut.html (492 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut \| Salon Books
		On Oct. 7, 1998, Kurt Vonnegut visits the air-raid shelter he went to as a POW during the attack on Dresden, Germany, in February 1945.
		But the entire book is striking for the light it sheds on Vonnegut's early years as a fiction writer, the era in which he was a struggling short story writer still casting about for a way to tell his Dresden story.
		Upon returning from the war, Vonnegut got married, enrolled in the master's program in anthropology at the University of Chicago, and took a part-time job as a crime reporter.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2008/04/07/vonnegut (1270 words)

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