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Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.[von´ugut] Pronunciation Key 1922–, American novelist, b. Indianapolis. After serving in World War II, he worked as a police reporter. With wry charm and black humor, his novels protest the horrors of the 20th cent. His books feature fantastic plots, involving trips in outer space, time faults, and apocalyptic destruction. Among his novels are Player Piano (1951), Mother Night (1962), Slaughterhouse Five (1969), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Deadeye Dick (1983), Bluebeard (1987), and the novel-memoir Timequake (1997). Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (1974) is a collection of essays.
See studies by S. Schatt (1976) and J. Lundquist (1977); bibliography by A. Pieratt et al. (1987).
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