Kurt Vonnegut
American
Notable Author - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father Kurt Vonnegut Sr
Notable Author - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| 1922/11/11 | Kurt Vonnegut Jr is born in Indianapolis, Indiana. | Born | |||||
| 1936/00/00 | Vonnegut enters Shortridge where he becomes an editor for the school newspaper. "It just turned out that I could write better than a lot of other people", he said. He graduated in 1940. | Education | Shortridge High School | Indianapolis | |||
| 1943/03/00 | Vonnegut enlist in the US Army and reports to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for basic training. | Soldier | Fort Bragg | North Carolina | |||
| 1944/12/22 | PFC Kurt Vonnegut, intelligence scout with the 423rd Infantry Regiment of the 106th Infantry Division, is capture by the German Army and is taken by boxcar to a prison camp south of Dresden, in Saxony. | Soldier | The Slaughterhouse Five | Battle of the Bulge | |||
| 1945/02/13 | Allied forces begin firebombing Dresden. Vonnegut takes shelter in a meat locker three stories underground. "It was cool there, with cadavers hanging all around." - KV | Soldier | The Slaughterhouse Five | Borse Dresden | Dresden, DE | ||
| 1945/02/15 | Vonnegut: "When we came up the city was gone ... They burnt the whole damn town down." Vonnegut and other American prisoners are pressed into service to recover bodies from the rubble. He described it as a "terribly elaborate Easter-egg hunt". | Soldier | The Slaughterhouse Five | Dresden, DE | Saxony | ||
| 1945/07/00 | Vonnegut is stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, typing discharge papers for soldiers. Soon he is awarded a Purple Heart: "I myself was awarded my country's second-lowest decoration, a Purple Heart for frost-bite." | Soldier | Main Post Area, Fort Riley | Fort Riley | |||
| 1961/00/00 | "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut is published. | Author | Harrison Bergeron (Short Story) | ||||
| 1962/01/00 | "2 B R 0 2 B" by Kurt Vonnegut is published in If, Worlds of Science Fiction. | Author | 2 B R 0 2 B (Short Story) | ||||
| 1963/00/00 | When I published the novel Cat's Cradle, Uncle John sent me a post card saying, "You're saying that life is a load of crap, right? Read Thackery!" He wasn't joking. - Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday | Life | Cat's Cradle | Schnull-Rauch House | Indianapolis | ||
| 1963/00/00 | Cat's Cradle - published | Author | Cat's Cradle | ||||
| 1965/00/00 | Kurt, his wife jane and their children move into a Victorian brick mansion on North Van Buren Street. The family will live here until 1967. | Home | Vogt House | Iowa City | |||
| 1966/00/00 | By 1965, Kurt Vonnegut writes more than five thousand pages of "The Slaughterhouse Five", but none of them will make it into his final draft. | Author | The Slaughterhouse Five | Vogt House | Iowa City | ||
| 1966/10/00 | Kurt Vonnegut struggles trying to decide if writing of "The Slaughterhouse Five" should be driven by a message to condemn war or should he just try to make money? | Author | The Slaughterhouse Five | Vogt House | Iowa City | ||
| 1968/06/10 | Less than ten months after he returning from a research visit to Dresden, Vonnegut submits the final draft of "The Slaughterhouse Five". | Author | The Slaughterhouse Five | ||||
| 1970/12/05 | I thank you for "An Account of the Ancestry of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr", surely one of the most valuable and cunningly made presents ever to change hands within our family. - Letter to John Rauch from Kurt Vonnegut, West Barnstable, MA | Life | Schnull-Rauch House | Indianapolis | |||
| 1996/00/00 | I saw a hell of a lot of death, and I saw a hell of a lot of it during the Battle of the Bulge when my division was wiped out. But then in Dresden I saw a mountain of dead people. And that makes you thoughtful. - Vonnegut, interview | Author | The Slaughterhouse Five | ||||
| 2007/04/11 | Kurt Vonnegut dies as a result of brain injuries suffered weeks earlier from a fall at his New York brownstone 228 E 48th St between 2nd and 3rd Aves, Manhattan, New York. | Died | Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District | New York City |
4 Creative Works by Kurt Vonnegut »
| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
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| Title | Type | Association | Y/M/D | Moniker |
| Harrison Bergeron (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1961/00/00 |
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| 2 B R 0 2 B (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1962/01/00 | |
| Cat's Cradle | Author | Book | 1963/00/00 |
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| The Slaughterhouse Five | Author | Novel | 1968/06/10 |
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