Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Followers (34,172)

Add New
Videos

Kurt Vonnegut - So It Goes [BBC Arena Documentary, 1983] (subs IT)

Add a comment

Add a comment

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Born

in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States

November 11, 1922

Died

April 11, 2007

Website

http://www.vonnegut.com/

Genre

Science Fiction

Influences

Breece D'J Pancake, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Joseph Heller, William Mar ...more

edit data

Kurt Vonnegut, Junior was an American novelist, satirist, and most recently, graphic artist. He was recognized as New York State Author for 2001-2003.

He was born in Indianapolis, later the setting for many of his novels. He attended Cornell University from 1941 to 1943, where he wrote a column for the student newspaper, the Cornell Daily Sun. Vonnegut trained as a chemist and worked as a journalist before joining the U.S. Army and serving in World War II.

After the war, he attended University of Chicago as a graduate student in anthropology and also worked as a police reporter at the City News Bureau of Chicago. He left Chicago to work in Schenectady, New York in public relations for General Electric. He attributed his unadorned writing st ...more

Combine Editions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s books

Average rating: 4.07 · 3,017,001 ratings · 119,004 reviews · 553 distinct works • Similar authors

	Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,385,270 ratings — published 1969 — 386 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cat’s Cradle 4.15 avg rating — 408,477 ratings — published 1963 — 214 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breakfast of Champions 4.07 avg rating — 263,591 ratings — published 1973 — 233 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sirens of Titan 4.15 avg rating — 144,171 ratings — published 1959 — 222 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Night 4.23 avg rating — 96,493 ratings — published 1961 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Galápagos 3.87 avg rating — 82,535 ratings — published 1985 — 155 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 3.96 avg rating — 68,228 ratings — published 1965 — 166 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welcome to the Monkey House 4.13 avg rating — 61,481 ratings — published 1968 — 142 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Player Piano 3.90 avg rating — 57,587 ratings — published 1952 — 198 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Man Without a Country 4.09 avg rating — 46,576 ratings — published 2005 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.…

Series by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

モンキー・ハウスへようこそ (2 books)
by

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.,

伊藤典夫 (翻訳),

カート・ヴォネガット・ジュニア,

浅倉久志 (翻訳),

吉田誠一 (翻訳)

4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings

Cristina Henríquez’s fiction has long drawn on her Panamanian roots, featuring the country as both a setting and the birthplace of many of her...

Polls

Which book would you like to read for September's Classic category group read?

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

2 votes, 40.0%

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig

1 vote, 20.0%

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

1 vote, 20.0%

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

1 vote, 20.0%

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

0 votes, 0.0%

Cosmos by Carl Sagan

0 votes, 0.0%

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

0 votes, 0.0%

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche

0 votes, 0.0%

Animal Farm by George Orwell

0 votes, 0.0%

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

0 votes, 0.0%

5 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Pick-a-Shelf: 2008-11 - Historical Fiction - Post November Reviews Here	51	324	Dec 07, 2008 02:51AM
Glens Falls (NY) ...: God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut	67	170	Dec 16, 2008 08:35AM
Flight 815-ers Unite: Slaughterhouse-Five	8	220	Jan 24, 2009 07:46AM
The Next Best Boo...: APRILS GROUP READS ARE>>>>>	271	889	Mar 31, 2009 04:23AM
SciFi and Fantasy...: May Sci-Fi Theme Suggestions -- Parody/Spoof	53	514	Mar 31, 2009 09:34PM
SciFi and Fantasy...: July Sci-Fi Book Please See Posts#1-#14-#26	73	628	Jun 14, 2009 03:22AM

More…

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s Followers (34,172)

Add NewVideos

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Combine EditionsKurt Vonnegut Jr.’s books

Series by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Related News

Polls

Topics Mentioning This Author

Add New
Videos

Combine Editions
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s books