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 style to his reporting work. His experiences as an advance scout in the Battle of the Bulge, and in particular his witnessing of the bombing of Dresden, Germany whilst a prisoner of war, would inform much of his work. This event would also form the core of his most famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five, the book which would make him a millionaire. This acerbic 200-page book is what most people mean when they describe a work as "Vonnegutian" in scope. Vonnegut was a self-proclaimed humanist and socialist (influenced by the style of Indiana's own Eugene V. Debs) and a lifelong supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union. The novelist is known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973)
Series
Books
Hocus Pocus
1990
The Big Trip up Yonder/2BR02B
1962
Armageddon in Retrospect
2008
The Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Audio Collection
1995
Palm Sunday/Welcome to the Monkeyhouse
1981
Drawings
2014
A Song for Selma
2009
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian
1999
Player Piano
1952
Ed Luby's Key Club
2009
Miss Temptation
2011
Sun Moon Star
1980
Palm Sunday
1981
Between Time and Timbuktu or Prometheus-5
1972
Sinbad
2016
King and Queen of the Universe
2009
Novels & Stories 1963–1973
Cat’s Cradle / God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater / Slaughterhouse-Five / Breakfast of Champions / Stories
2011
Novels 1976–1985
Slapstick / Jailbird / Deadeye Dick / Galápagos
2014
Essential Vonnegut Interviews
2006
Jailbird
1979
Sucker's Portfolio
2012
Three by Vonnegut
Cat's Cradle/Slaughterhouse Five/Breakfast of Champions
2007
Shout About It from the Housetops
2009
Complete Stories
2017
Confido
2009
Basic Training
2012
Cat's Cradle
1963
The Honor of a Newsboy
2009
The Nice Little People
2009
Bluebeard
1987
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
1976
Pity the Reader
On Writing with Style
2019
Hello, Red
2009
Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tommorrow
1954
Slice of Life
2016
Slaughterhouse-Five
1969
Like Shaking Hands with God
A Conversation about Writing
1999
Kurt Vonnegut
The Last Interview: And Other Conversations
2011
Lopkautuve Nr. 5 / Lai dievs jūs svētī, mister Rouzvoter! / Čempionu brokastis
1987
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2013
2013
Slapstick/Mother Night
1976
We Are What We Pretend To Be
The First and Last Works
2012
Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons
1974
Deadeye Dick
1982
A Man Without a Country
2005
FUBAR
2009
Novels & Stories 1950–1962
Player Piano / The Sirens of Titan / Mother Night / Stories
2012
The Flying Sorcerers
1997
All The King's Horses
1951
Short Science Fiction Collection 002
2023
Kurt Vonnegut
The Complete Novels
2016
Unready to Wear
1953
Kurt Vonnegut
Letters
2012
Vonnegut by the Dozen
Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut
2013
Bagombo Snuff Box
1999
The Good Explainer
2009
If This Isn't Nice, What Is?
Advice for the Young
2013
Fates Worse Than Death
1982
Breakfast of Champions
1973
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
1965
Brave New Worlds
2010
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
1970
Timequake
1997
Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
1988
Look at the Birdie
Short Fiction
2009
2BR02B
1968
The Petrified Ants
2009
Welcome to the Monkey House
1968
Little Drops of Water
2009
Canary in a Cat House
1961
Cat's Cradle/God Bless You Mr. Rosewater/Breakfast of Champions
1973
The Kid Nobody Could Handle
1955
Бойня номер пять. Колыбель для кошки
2008
Hall of Mirrors
2009
Galápagos
1985
The Sirens of Titan
1959
Kurt Vonnegut
The Cornell Sun Years 1941-1943
2012
Who Am I This Time? For Romeos and Juliets
1987
Love, Kurt
The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945
2020
Harrison Bergeron
1961
While Mortals Sleep
Unpublished Short Fiction
2011
The Big Trip Up Yonder
1954
Mother Night
1961
