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	Mark Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mark Vonnegut, son of Kurt Vonnegut Jr., graduated from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, in 1969 at the age of 21.
		On 14th February, 1971, Mark was diagnosed severely schizophrenic, and committed to Hollywood Psychiatric Hospital in Vancouver.
		Mark Vonnegut is the brother of Edith Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mark_Vonnegut (329 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.
		Mark, who realized that his condition may have been inherited from his grandmother, was also motivated to take up the study of medicine and of orthomolecular psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
		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)

	Pywrit.com - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Biography
		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.
	www.pywrit.com /ebooks/sfv/KurtVonnegutJr/KurtVonnegutJrBio.htm (1354 words)

	Thagodz Wiki News
		Mark was named after Mark Twain, whom Vonnegut considered an American saint, and to whom he bears some resemblance, in both style and facial appearance.
		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, in which he is hired by Thornton Melon to write a paper on the topic of the novels of Kurt Vonnegut.
	www.thagodz.com /search/wiki/?title=Kurt_Vonnegut (3170 words)

	Comprehensive information and links about Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut referred to the book's success as "a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life," although the emotionally-charged essays belied no diminished energy on the author's part.
		In the foreword to, Vonnegut wrote that as a child, he saw men with locomotor ataxia, and it struck him that these men walked like broken machines; it followed that healthy people were working machines, suggesting that humans are helpless prisoners of determinism.
		Vonnegut also explored this pessimistic theme in, in which protagonist Billy Pilgrim "has come unstuck in time" and has so little control over his own life that he cannot even predict which part of it he will be living through from minute to minute.
	www.quicknation.com /Kurt_Vonnegut.htm (2006 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Vonnegut Speaks On Mental Illness
		Pulitzer Prize-winning author Kurt Vonnegut and his son, Mark, recounted last night the turmoil that unfolded in their family after Mark began to suffer from mental illness in 1969.
		Mark Vonnegut, who is now a Milton, Mass.-based primary care physician and graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1979, answered that people were more medicated today but were not being cured.
		When Kurt Vonnegut asked his son for his thoughts on psychotherapy, Mark Vonnegut responded that it gave false hope to anyone who was not biochemically balanced.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=255155 (452 words)

	The Eden Express (Mark Vonnegut)
		Vonnegut, a recent religion graduate, and friends set out to an isolated area of British Columbia and establish a farm-cum-hippy commune.
		Vonnegut attempts to recount what he was thinking while he was ill in a verbatim manner.
		Mark Vonneguts book on his journey into mental illness is a brilliantly told tale of personal experience and it offers insights into the hippie culture.
	www.historicchristchurch.org /webstore/uk/product/0275225305.htm (617 words)

	Anti Essays : : Schizophrenia Synthesis
		In Vonnegut\'s article, he had his studies on his observations and suggested the effective treatments in treating the symptoms since there is no cure for the schizophrenia.
		Vonnegut\'s studied all the different ways of treating from social treatment to psychological treatment showing what he observed and how he got to his observations.
		After comparing the three articles I believe that the Mark\'s way of treatment was much effective especially that he wrote in his article that there is no cure for schizophrenia but it is a treatment for the symptoms trying to keep the patient stable at the most of his independent level possible.
	www.antiessays.com /print.php?eid=1860 (1043 words)

	The Infidels - Kurt Vonnegut
		Vonnegut also explored this theme in Slaughterhouse-Five, in which protagonist Billy Pilgrim "has come unstuck in time" and has so little control over his own life that he cannot even predict which part of it he will be living through from minute to minute.
		Vonnegut's couplet from Cat's Cradle, "Nice, Nice, Very Nice.." was put to music by the Southern California group Ambrosia and recorded on their self-title debut album (1975).
		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.
	www.theinfidels.org /zunb-kurtvonnegut.htm (2454 words)

	The Good Hippie - Swarthmore College Bulletin
		Though Mark was going crazy, his friends (including several classmates and friends from Swarthmore who also lived at the commune) at first saw his behavior—and even his misery—as normal behavior in the crazy world of 1971.
		Mark had been the commune’s visionary, and it seemed that his mind was merely intensifying its natural self.
		Mark Vonnegut was one of the lucky ones; he got better.
	www.swarthmore.edu /bulletin/mar03/books.html (1344 words)

	CASA \| Coalition Against Sanist Attitudes
		Mark Vonnegut MD, is a pediatrician in Boston, and the author of the book, The Eden Express: a personal account of schizophrenia/a memoir of insanity.
		But Vonnegut noted, that to tell his story of attitudes received by family, friends, insurance companies, and the like, is “like eating the same poisonous mushroom over and over expecting that sooner or later it will be nutritiousYou need all your energy and wits for things that matter.”
		Vonnegut is giving the reader advice; don’t waste your time concerning yourself with how others perceive you-get better.
	www.coalitionagainstsanistattitudes.org /essaybydrmarkvonnegut.htm (562 words)

	For Immediate ...
		The physical effort of marking the paper with bold colorful gestures is almost palpable, as one imagines the quick deft strokes being applied.
		Vonnegut, like his paintings, maintains a laid back air which upon closer observation reveals a highly creative and contagious positive energy.
		Mark Vonnegut brings a refreshing perspective to an established medium and genre, with a joyful willingness to experiment and test the peculiarities of watercolor and mixed media.
	www.artadvisoryboston.com /Vonnegut903.htm (410 words)

	Twisting Vonnegut's views on terrorism - The Boston Globe
		If novelist Kurt Vonnegut supports terrorism, then maybe all critics of the war are on some level proterrorist.
		He's never been there, doesn't think about their art or writing, may or may not be able to pick out some of their capitals and important rivers on a map.
		Kurt Vonnegut calling for the impeachment of Bush is not news.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/12/27/twisting_vonneguts_views_on_terrorism (778 words)

	The Stranger \| Seattle \| Slog: The Stranger's Blog \| Hearts and butterflies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I even enjoyed his son Mark Vonnegut’s Eden Express detailing the drug-triggered schizophrenia he suffered for awhile before becoming a pediatrician.
		Mark’s memoir showed me that schizophrenics and children can probably grow to contribute something valuable to society (under heavily medicated circumstances).
		Vonnegut is like a god unto me. No other living writer has so successfully blended whimsy and philosophical insight into the human condition.
	www.thestranger.com /blog/2006/03/hearts_and_butt.php (358 words)

	Amazon.com: Eden Express: Books: Mark Vonnegut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Mark Vonnegut went through three severe schizophrenic episodes in the early '70's, yet is able to maintain a sense of humor about what befell him.
		Everyone, including Vonnegut, seemed to think what hit him was the result of oppressive society, as explained by the silly writings of ain't-no-mental-illness Thomas Szasz and the even sillier ones of mental-illness-can-be-a-good-thing R.D. Laing.
		Mark Vonnegut gives us a case study of a young person who had natively intuited and systematatically explored synchronicity for some years prior to his episodes of schizophrenia.
	www.amazon.com /Eden-Express-Mark-Vonnegut/dp/0553209744 (1678 words)

	TIME.com: Paradise Lost -- Oct. 6, 1975 -- Page 1
		Vonnegut is not a bad name to have on a book if one is simply interested in marketing a name brand.
		Eden Express is his attempt to describe the slippage in and out of madness, to distinguish between the chaos in his head and the confusion of the world and, finally, to achieve a balance between romantic myths about sick minds and the cold evidence that his own disorder is the product of abnormal body chemistry.
		Mark had all the inverted status symbols: a trusty old Volkswagen, a loyal mongrel dog, a commune in a good neighborhood and a larder stuffed with choice grass and macrobiotic snacks.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,913554,00.html (698 words)

	Barbara Sibert, Mark Vonnegut - New York Times
		Robert P. Sibert of Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., was married yesterday to Dr. Mark Vonnegut, the son of Kurt Vonnegut of New York and the late Jane Cox Vonnegut.
		Vonnegut, 38, is the college counselor at the Maimonides School in Brookline, Mass.
		Her mother, Mary Sibert, teaches art history at the C. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville, N.Y. Dr. Vonnegut, 52, is a pediatrician at Milton Pediatrics in Quincy, Mass.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E5DC143AF934A15755C0A96F958260 (189 words)

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		Mark Vonnegut’s book, The Eden Express, chronicles his decent into mental illness as a young adult in the early 1970’s.
		Vonnegut, who is bi-polar, was able to provide a vivid written account of his altered “reality”.
		Vonnegut, who is a Boston area Pediatrician, spoke to the class and reveled that he was also a painter.
	babel.massart.edu /~herschel/bspr.html (749 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)

	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 Eden Express --- A Memoir of Insanity
		When Mark Vonnegut graduated from Swarthmore College in 1969, he was at his wit's end.
		His first bout of lunacy was a mild one --- brought on by the departure of a soul mate named Luke and the entrance of some heavy mescaline.
		Vonnegut has put together a remarkable portrait of a person going batty.
	www.ralphmag.org /BS/vonnegut.html (969 words)

	The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut - Arcanum Cafe - Forums
		This was written by the son of the well known novelist Kurt Vonnegut.
		Mark is such a good natured and pleasant fellow that his book is a joy to read.
		Mark is now a pediatrician and artist in Manhattan.
	www.arcanumcafe.com /community/showthread.php?t=49067 (370 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vonnegut is also 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.
		There was a widely-circulated urban legend on the Internet that Kurt Vonnegut gave a commencement address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1997 in which he issued simple advice, most notably advising students to "wear sunscreen".
		Other subtle references exist, not least the scene in which Farrell's 'James' makes breakfast for his 'mark', attractive fellow CIA recruit 'Layla', and comments that the 'cheese eggs' that he has made were his father's speciality, and that his father called them 'heartstoppers...
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut (3285 words)

	The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut
		The Eden Express by Mark Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
		If you, or someone you love, is suffering from a mental disorder, or manic depression, you owe it to yourself to become as informed as possible about the disease.
		Vonnegut may be a source of good information for you.
	dietbooks.org /insanity/Eden_Express.html (471 words)

	FAQ for alt.books.kurt-vonnegut
		Though Vonnegut may not be a web surfer, he has cooperated in the creation Joe Petro III's www.vonnegut.com.
		Vonnegut has said that there are still a few which were missed when the publishers of Bagombo dredged the lake.
		It was a collage of previously published Vonnegut material directed by Fred Barzyk and starring William Hickey as the reluctant astronaut Stony Stevenson.
	www.vonnegutweb.com /faq (3210 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut Essay Collection
		Description: A research paper concerning Vonnegut's development of biological and artificially forming family groups and their impact on American culture and ideals.
		Description: Vonnegut's universal acclaim and appeal surely comes in no small part from his gift for connecting, almost unnoticiably, seemingly unrelated objects and events to give them deeper meaning, creating a phenomenon known within Jungian circles as synchronicity.
		Description: An earlier version of the essay Vonnegut as a Bug in Amber, analyzing the images of humanity and God in Vonnegut's works.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/4953/kv_essays.html (948 words)

	Mark Vonnegut - The Eden Express
		MARK VONNEGUT is the son of novelist Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
		Bored with East Coast academia, suspicious of his father's sudden literary notoriety and determined to stay true to the principles of hippiedom, Mark headed for the wilds of British Columbia to build a commune and find his panacea.
		Two years later, on Valentine's Day, 1971, Vonnegut was committed to Hollywood Psychiatric Hospital in Vancouver- diagnosed severely schizophrenic.
	wuff.me.uk /vonnegut/P5.1.html (1312 words)

	The Connection.org : Analyzing the Vonneguts
		Kurt Vonnegut turned his struggles with depression and suicide into a vital ingredient of his literary identity, his intense prose granting him a certain diplomatic immunity from the rules of "sanity." His son Mark was more hippie than artist when he went squirrelly in the height of the Vietnam era.
		Mark and Kurt Vonnegut will be speaking and signing at the Arthur M. Sackler Art Museum, Harvard University Campus, at 6 p.m..
		MarK Vonnegut, reads an excerpt from his book.
	www.theconnection.org /shows/2002/11/20021106_b_main.asp (243 words)

	vonnegutted
		Mark Vonnegut has written a book about the experience, entitled Eden Express.
		Kurt Vonnegut was hunched, husky voiced, a slight slur.
		In spite of his opposition to technology, someone has a Kurt Vonnegut home page and there is a newsgroup devoted to his works: alt.books.kurt-vonnegut.
	www.links.net /vita/speak/vonnegut/fulltext.html (3029 words)

	A Man Without A Country - Kurt Vonnegut - Arcanum Cafe - Forums
		Well folks, Kurt Vonnegut has come out with a new book, his first in six years or so.
		However, the readers said it provides a great epilogue to his career and is classic Vonnegut.
		I read many Vonnegut books in high school and that one appealed me the most.
	www.arcanumcafe.com /community/showthread.php?t=62762 (425 words)

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