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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr.


Born
in Indianapolis, Indiana, The United States
November 11, 1922

Died
April 11, 2007

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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
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Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.  (?)
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“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
Kurt Vonnegut

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano

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March 2016 New School Group Read

1950, The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, 182 pages
 
  26 votes, 13.0%

1987, Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, 296 pages
 
  24 votes, 12.0%

1965, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 343 pages
 
  20 votes, 10.0%

1972, Watership Down by Richard Adams, 481 pages
 
  19 votes, 9.5%

1955, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, 307 pages
 
  14 votes, 7.0%

 
  14 votes, 7.0%

1963, Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, 179 pages
 
  12 votes, 6.0%

1928, Orlando by Virginia Woolf, 228 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.5%

1987, Beloved by Toni Morrison, 324 pages
 
  11 votes, 5.5%

 
  9 votes, 4.5%

 
  9 votes, 4.5%

1931, The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck, 418 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.0%

1919, Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, 240 pages
 
  8 votes, 4.0%

1958, The Tin Drum by Günter Grass, 567 pages
 
  5 votes, 2.5%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.0%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.0%

 
  2 votes, 1.0%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
 
  2 votes, 1.0%

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