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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Biography (1922-)

Born November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, IN; son of Kurt (an architect) and Edith (Lieber) Vonnegut; married Jane Marie Cox, September 1, 1945 (divorced,1979); married Jill Krementz (a photographer), November 24, 1979; children: Mark, Edith, Nanette (first marriage); (adopted deceased sister's children) James, Steven, and Kurt Adams; Lily (second marriage). Addresses: HOME--Northampton, Massachusetts. LAWYER--Donald C. Farber, c/o Tanner, Gilbert, Propp, and Sterner, 99 Park Avenue, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10016.

Nationality

American

Gender

Male

Birth Details

November 11, 1922

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Famous Works

• Credits; PRINCIPAL FILM APPEARANCES
• As himself, Back to School, Orion, 1986.
• Writings; STAGE
• Penelope, first produced on Cape Cod, MA, 1960, revised as Happy Birthday, Wanda June, Theatre De Lys, New York City, 1970, published byDelacorte and Samuel French, Inc., both 1971.
• Also Something Borrowed, 1958; The Very First Christmas Morning, published in Better Homes and Gardens, 1962; EPICAC, 1963; My Name Is Everyone, 1964; and Fortitude, published in Playboy, 1968; all produced Off-Broadway or in summer theatre.
• Writings; FILM
• Happy Birthday, Wanda June, Columbia, 1971.
• Writings; TELEVISION PLAYS
• Between Time and Timbuktu, or Prometheus-5: A Space Fantasy, NET,1972, published by Delacorte, 1972.
• Writings; NOVELS
• Player Piano, Scribner, 1952, then Dell, 1974, and as Utopia 14, Bantam, 1954.
• The Sirens of Titan, Dell, 1959.
• Mother Night, Fawcett, 1962.
• Cat's Cradle, Holt, 1963.
• God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls before Swine, Holt, 1966.
• Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade, Delacorte, 1969.
• Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye, Blue Monday, Delacorte, 1973.
• Slapstick, or Lonesome No More, Delacorte, 1976.
• Jailbird, Delacorte, 1979.
• Deadeye Dick, Delacorte, 1982.
• Galapagos, Delacorte, 1985.
• Bluebeard, Delacorte, 1987, large print edition, J. Curley, 1988.
• Hocus Pocus; or, What's the Hurry, Son?, New York, Putnam, and London, Cape, 1990.
• Timequake, New York, Putnam, 1997.
• Writings; OTHER
• Canary in a Cathouse (short stories), Fawcett, 1961.
• Welcome to the Monkey House (short stories), Delacorte, 1968.
• Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons: (Opinions) (essays), Delacorte,1974.
• (with Ivan Chermayeff) Sun Moon Star (juvenile) Harper & Row,1980.
• Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (memoirs), Delacorte, 1981.
• Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut (interviews), edited by William Rodney Allen, Jackson, University of Mississippi Press, 1988.
• Fates Worse Than Death: An Autobiographical Collage of the 1980s,New York, Putnam, 1991.
• Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1999.
• God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (short stories), New York, Seven Stories Press, 1999.