kurt vonnegut

     

"Slaughterhouse Five"<br />(1969)

Trivia about kurt vonnegut

  • Some highbrow critics "Kurt"ly dismiss his sci-fi novel "The Sirens of Titan" as a lesser work
  • At age 82 in 2005 this "Cat's Cradle" author had his first nonfiction bestseller, "A Man Without a Country"
  • "Welcome to the Monkey House","Galapagos","Player Piano"
  • He wrote "Slaughterhouse-Five", but didn't write the MIT commencement speech circulated under his name
  • In "Cat's Cradle" his Felix Hoenikker creates Ice-Nine, a substance that can freeze the world solid
  • He subtitled his 1973 novel “Breakfast of Champions”, “Or Goodbye Blue Monday!”
  • Eliot Rosewater,Dr. Felix Hoenikker,Billy Pilgrim
  • "Hocus Pocus" was a 1990 book by this "Cat's Cradle" novelist
  • (I'm Michael McKean.) A favorite of mine is this author's "Cat's Cradle", a book named for a children's game but dealing with the end of life on Earth
  • In 1999 this "Breakfast of Champions" author was honored as an Indiana living legend
  • In 1991 on cable television he introduced stories from his book "Welcome to the Monkey House"
  • This famous Jr. re-created his WWII Dresden experience in a 1969 novel
  • This author writes, "...In Germany is a stream called the Vonne. That is the source of my curious name"
  • God bless this author of "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater"
  • "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater","Timequake","Mother Night"
  • This author famously escaped the firestorm from the bombing of Dresden by hiding in a slaughterhouse
  • This Indianapolis-born author's drawings can be seen in his books "Slaughterhouse-Five" & "Breakfast of Champions"
  • Indianan writer who appears in the photo seen here
  • Harold Ryan,Dwayne Hoover,Billy Pilgrim
  • When this "Cat's Cradle" author died on April 11, the N.Y. Times called him a "darkly comic literary hero"
  • This "Cat's Cradle" author said of his time at Cornell, "I was enrolled exclusively in courses I had no talent for"
  • Kilgore Trout, the fictional author of several cleverly ironic sci-fi novels, is a character in many of his books