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	Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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.
		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".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut (2534 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		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 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 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)

	Kurt Vonnegut -- Vonnegut.com
		Most readers interested in the fantastic in literature are familiar with Kurt Vonnegut, particularly for his uses of science fiction.
		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.
		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 (3891 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Kurt Vonnegut, New York State Author
		Kurt Vonnegut has helped to extend the range of the American novel through his innovations in tone, style, and form.
		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.
		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.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/vonnegutkurt.html (888 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		American author Kurt Vonnegut combines satiric social commentary and black comedy with surrealist and science fictional elements.
		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.
		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.
	www.nndb.com /people/928/000022862 (1904 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut - a Star Library biography
		Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis Nov. 11, 1922 to Kurt and Edith (Lieber) Vonnegut Sr.
		Indianapolis-born writer Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most influential writers of his generation.
		Vonnegut was in Dresden when the city was virtually destroyed by an intense Allied bombing campaign.
	indystar.com /library/factfiles/people/v/vonnegut_kurt/vonnegut.html (494 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Kurt Vonnegut
		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.
		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.
		On December 14, 1944, Vonnegut was captured in the Battle of the Bulge.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_kurt_vonnegut.html (594 words)

	The Book Report - An Introduction to Kurt Vonnegut
		There's nothing I can tell you about the work of Kurt Vonnegut which you couldn't learn better yourself by reading his books.
		Vonnegut's ideas are so humane, his words so compassionate, his advice so sensible, that his readers feel a strong connection to the man, and, by extension, to one another.
		Vonnegut subverts that assumption, often repeating that reading is hard enough as it is, so it's the writer's job to 1) have something to say and 2) say it clearly.
	www.zverina.com /bestbooks/vonnegut-intro.htm (572 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)

	Kurt Vonnegut's Biography
		Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was born on the eleventh day of November, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana.
		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).
		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.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/4953/kv_bio.html (724 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.
		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.
		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.
	www.indianahistory.org /pop_hist/people/kv.html (3372 words)

	In These Times Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !&#*!@
		Kurt Vonnegut is, I think, if not the greatest novelist of the 20th century then right up there, and I'm always glad to hear his take on things.
		12:06 pm from Chapel Hill, NC Kurt Vonnegut at 80 is still the most amazing man on the planet.
		Vonnegut is an American socialist in the tradition of Eugene Victor Debs, a fellow Hoosier whom he likes to quote: “As long as there is a lower class, I am in it.
	inthesetimes.com /comments.php?id=38_0_4_0_C (6277 words)

	NOW. Transcript. October 1, 2005 PBS
		KURT VONNEGUT: Brown and Williams, on their package, promise to kill me. And they haven't done it.
		KURT VONNEGUT: Well he is what it in my grade school, we would've called a twit.
		KURT VONNEGUT: Look, I don't mean to intimidate you, but I have a master's degree in anthropology.
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcriptNOW140_full.html (3036 words)

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		One of the greatest minds in American writing, Kurt Vonnegut has left an indelible impression on literature with such inventive novels as Cat’s...
		Kurt Vonnegut gave a lecture at THAT University.
	technorati.com /tag/kurtvonnegut (536 words)

	Bruce Campbell Presents Vonnegut
		Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, Indiana on Armistice Day, November 11, 1922.
		Kurt Vonnegut has an enthusiastic audience of a wide age range.
		It is probably best to let Kurt Vonnegut tell you himself about what he writes about.
	www.urly.com /URLy2Day/Vonnegut/von.html (405 words)

	Salon Books The Salon Interview: Kurt Vonnegut
		After entertaining and provoking us with his novels for 50 years, Kurt Vonnegut says he is retiring from the literature business.
		Vonnegut, who remembers the Depression and served in World War II, turns 78 next month.
		A couple of the stories rise to culminating jokes in the vein of Vonnegut's classic tall tale, "Tom Edison's Shaggy Dog," from his only previous collection, 1968's "Welcome to the Monkey House."
	www.salon.com /books/int/1999/10/08/vonnegut_interview (566 words)

	USATODAY.com - Vonnegut, on politics, presidents and librarians
		82 and coming on strong: Kurt Vonnegut’s new book is part commentary and part memoir, marked by his acerbic world perspective.
		For all those who have lived with Vonnegut in their imaginations — with the listless soldier Billy Pilgrim in 1969's Slaughterhouse-Five, with the religious Bokononists whispering "busy, busy, busy" in 1963's Cat's Cradle&; this is what he is like in person.
		At La Mediterranée, Vonnegut brings with him a November 1972 Harper's article he wrote about the Republican presidential nomination in Miami of Richard Nixon when the country was fighting the Vietnam War.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2005-10-05-vonnegut_x.htm (963 words)

	AlterNet: Vonnegut at 80
		Vonnegut, after all, is an avant-garde artist, whose "aggressively unconventional" (his words) approach to storytelling would likely put readers off if it weren't for the wryly aphoristic, conversational tone of his voice.
		Vonnegut continues to be a cultural presence, speaking out against war with Iraq to 10,000 protestors at a rally in New York's Central Park and making a spoken-word contribution to the new multimedia world music production, One Giant Leap.
		While Vonnegut has always owned his Indianapolis sense of place, he has seemed less interested in grounding himself to a particular locale than in using place as a portal to some greater, universal understanding of life.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=14919 (1598 words)

	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Best Jokes Are Dangerous, An Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, Part One
		Kurt Vonnegut: Well, my late brother Bernie, who was a great expert on weather — at one point he knew more about tornadoes than anybody else on the planet, I imagine — was always approached by people who knew his background and wanted him to be an expert about it.
		Vonnegut: I can only think of an experience I had back when I was working PR at General Electric.
		Vonnegut: Well, there were — or maybe there are — a number of dead people out there.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /2002/09/16vonnegut1.html (1108 words)

	Amazon.com: Slaughterhouse-Five: Books: Kurt Vonnegut
		Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Five introduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who becomes unstuck in time after he is abducted by aliens from the planet Tralfamadore.
		While this is Kurt Vonnegut's most famous book, it is not his only good book.
		Vonnegut seems to say that yes, war is one of those things we cannot avoid, but we need to change the things we can about it, like the atrocious bombing of Dresden.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440180295?v=glance (2236 words)

	Amazon.com: Cat's Cradle: Books: Kurt Vonnegut
		Kurt Vonnegut is my favorite author of all time.
		Vonnegut uses Bokononism as a device to communicate his social commentary on science, religion, and human stupidity.
		Vonnegut invents for the inhabitants of San Lorenzo a brand new religion based completely and admittedly on "foma", or lies.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/038533348X?v=glance (1961 words)

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

	Salon.com People Kurt Vonnegut: "My God, Vesuvius has erupted again!"
		About three miles from author Kurt Vonnegut’s apartment, teams of construction workers are still sifting through tons of steaming rubble 24 hours a day, trying to find the remains of those who perished in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
		Kurt Vonnegut: "My God, Vesuvius has erupted again!"
		In February 1945, Vonnegut was witness to another pretty good imitation of Mount Vesuvius: the firebombing by Allied forces of Dresden, a town in eastern Germany, during the last months of World War II.
	archive.salon.com /people/feature/2001/12/12/vonnegut/index_np.html?x (461 words)

	Cold Turkey -- In These Times
		Kurt Vonnegut is a legendary author, WWII veteran, humanist, artist, smoker and In These Times senior editor.
		Kurt Vonnegut,in this story as well as in others.....
		Vonnegut said this to his doddering old dad: “Father, we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.” So I pass that on to you.
	www.inthesetimes.com /site/main/article/cold_turkey (3089 words)

	NPR : Kurt Vonnegut
		Kurt Vonnegut's official Web site features a biography of and artwork by the author.
		Morning Edition, September 10, 2003 · Today we conclude the three-part series, "Art Out of Cataclysm." NPR's Renee Montagne talks to writer Kurt Vonnegut about the firebombing of Dresden, Germany, by British bombers towards the end of World War II.
		12, 1999: Kurt Vonnegut discusses a collection of his earliest short stories 'Bagombo Snuff Box.'
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1426772 (213 words)

	Salon Ivory Tower Seven deadly sins: Stalking Kurt Vonnegut
		But this time, no. Kurt Vonnegut was indeed probing my eyes, engaging me in a staring contest of who would give in first.
		Vonnegut, it turned out, was one of them.
		I'd like to believe the cause of all this was that he saw some divine aura swarming around me, detecting a uniqueness that only comes around every few decades or so, one that he himself possesses.
	www.salon.com /it/col/guest/1999/02/03guest.html (579 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut Interview with Don Swaim
		Kurt Vonnegut Jr., author of Breakfast of Champions, Mother Night, Player Piano, Slapstick, Slaughterhouse Five, The Sirens of Titan, and Cat's Cradle, talks with Don Swaim in 1981 about profanity, religion, agnosticism, freedom, censorship, living in New York and the dangers of carelessness.
	wiredforbooks.org /kurtvonnegut (87 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut Quotes - The Quotations Page
		Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.
		One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain.
		There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don’t know what can be done to fix it.
	www.quotationspage.com /quotes/Kurt_Vonnegut (301 words)

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