Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Breakfast of Champions (1999) and Mother Night (1996). He was married to Jill Krementz and Jane Marie Cox. He died on April 11, 2007 in New York City, New York, USA.
April 11, 2007, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Place Of Birth
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Height
6' 2" (1.88 m)
Profession
Writer, Actor, Soundtrack
Education
University of Chicago, Cornell University, Shortridge High School, Carnegie Mellon University, Butler University, University of Tennessee
Nationality
American
Spouse
Jill Krementz, Jane Marie Cox
Children
Edith Vonnegut, Mark Vonnegut, Lily Vonnegut, Nanette Vonnegut, Kurt Adams Vonnegut, James Vonnegut, Steven Vonnegut
Parents
Edith Lieber, Kurt Vonnegut Sr.
Siblings
Bernard Vonnegut, Alice Vonnegut
Awards
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Playwright, Writers Guild of America Award for Television Best Script, 30 Minutes or Less in Program Length, Audie Award for Short Stories/Collections
Nominations
Hugo Award for Best Novel, Nebula Award for Best Novel, National Book Award for Fiction, Locus Award for Best Short Story
Movies
Slapstick of Another Kind, Slaughterhouse-Five, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, 2081, Harrison Bergeron, Mother Night, Breakfast of Champions, Between Time and Timbuktu, Who Am I This Time?, Long Walk to Forever, Never Down, 1 Giant Leap, 2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be, Displaced Person, Next Door, The H...
TV Shows
Kurt Vonnegut's Monkey House
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Quote
1
There is no immunity to Cuckoo ideas on Earth.
2
There's this form of "Meditation" I've been practicing for years that's relaxing and enlightening; it's called "reading short stories".
3
When you get to be our age [elderly], you all of a sudden realize that you are being ruled by the people you went to high school with. You all of a sudden catch on that life is nothing but high school.
4
We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.
5
What kind of nutcase wants to become a psychiatrist?
6
I would rather have written Cheers (1982) than anything I've written.
7
A lot of people think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct. They think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.
8
Always mind what you pretend to be...since you *are* what you pretend to be.
9
If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
10
When [Ernest Hemingway] killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon.
11
A nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.
12
I had nothing to do with the script of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), incidentally. That was the work of Stephen Geller -- and a good job it was. I didn't meet him until after the picture opened. He is a novelist, too, and I asked him which he liked best, writing novels or screenplays. He preferred novels by far, since they were wholly under his control.
13
True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Fact
1
His parents were both of German descent.
2
Teaches advanced writing at Smith College [September 2000]
3
Started writing in his mid-twenties.
4
Was considering abandoning writing and taking a teaching job when ''Cat's Cradle'' became a best-seller.
5
An ardent socialist, having taken inspiration from fellow Indiana natives Powers Hapgood and Eugene V. Debs.
6
His mother committed suicide just before he left for Germany in World War 2.
7
He adopted his sister's three children after she died, for a total of 7 children.
8
Studied chemistry at Cornell University before joining the U.S. Army.
9
Some of his novels were banned & also burned for suspected obscenity.
10
Senior editor and columnist at "In These Times" magazine.
11
Adopted his sister's three young children after her death.
12
Father of daughter Lily, from his second wife, Jill Krementz. Mark, Edith (Edie Vonnegut) and Nanette (Nanny Vonnegut) from his first wife, Jane Marie Cox. Adopted his sister's children after her death, James, Steven and Kurt Adams.
A soldier in the US Army during World War II, Vonnegut had been captured by German forces and imprisoned in a POW camp in Dresden, Germany. The infamous firebombing of Dresden occurred while he was there, and his survival of it and his experiences during it were the basis for his novel "Slaughterhouse-Five".
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December 22, 1944, Vonnegut was captured during the Battle of the Bulge while a battalion scout with the 106 Infantry Division. May 22, 1945, Vonnegut released to return to the U.S. Awarded the Purple Heart.
18
Vonnegut's career at Cornell was cut short by his enlisting in the Army in WWII.
19
Attended Cornell University (Chemistry) and earned an MA from University of Chicago.
20
Kurt Vonnegut has been referred to in numerous teen-themed movies: in Footloose (1984), Kevin Bacon argues the merits of the novel "Slaughterhouse Five" with the town minister; in Varsity Blues (1999), James Van Der Beek (as a high-school backup QB) reads "Slaughterhouse Five" instead of his team's play-book; James Marsden discovers William Sadler's supposedly retarded janitor reading "Slaughterhouse Five" in Disturbing Behavior (1998); Can't Hardly Wait (1998) ends with Ethan Embry going to Chicago for a writing course, headed by Kurt Vonnegut.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bluebeard
2018
novel pre-production
Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without a Country
2017
Documentary book post-production
2Br02B
2016
Short writer
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut (or the Friends of Kilgore Trout)
2016
Documentary
2BR02b
2016
Short short story
2BR02B: To Be or Naught to Be
2016
Short short story
The Last Day of Charley E. Rays
2016
Short original story
Long Walk to Forever
2014
Short short story
The Big Trip Up Yonder
2014
Short story
A Man Without a Country
2012
Documentary book
Covek iz Bagomba
2010
Short short story "Bagombo Snuff Box"
2081
2009
Short based on the short story "Harrison Bergeron" by
Epicac
2008
Short short story
Harrison Bergeron
2006
Short story
Breakfast of Champions
1999
book
Mother Night
1996
novel - as Kurt Vonnegut
Harrison Bergeron
1995
TV Movie story
Monkey House
1991-1993
TV Series short story - 7 episodes
Long Walk to Forever
1987
Short story
American Playhouse
TV Series novel - 1 episode, 1985 story - 1 episode, 1982
Slapstick of Another Kind
1982
novel "Slapstick" - as Kurt Vonnegut
Deer in the Works
1980
Short story
Karikakramäng
1977
story - segment "Promenaad", as Kurt Vonnegut
Next Door
1975
Short story
Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love
1974
TV Movie story - segment "Epicac"
Slaughterhouse-Five
1972
novel "Slaughterhouse-Five Or The Children's Crusade"
Between Time and Timbuktu
1972
TV Movie various writings
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
1971
play / screenplay
Bus Stop
1961
TV Series story - 1 episode
General Electric Theater
1955-1958
TV Series story - 2 episodes
The Ford Television Theatre
1954
TV Series based on a story by - 1 episode
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Never Down
2007
Robert (as Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions
1999
Commercial Director
Mother Night
1996
Sad Man on Street (as Kurt Vonnegut)
The Civil War
1990
TV Mini-Series documentary
Various
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
Slapstick of Another Kind
1982
lyrics: "Lonesome No More" - as Kurt Vonnegut
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Breakfast of Champions
1999
title drawings
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
A Man Without a Country
2012
Documentary in memory of
Sicko
2007
Documentary very special thanks - as Kurt Vonnegut
Poetry, Passion, the Postman: The Poetic Return of Pablo Neruda
1996
TV Movie documentary thanks - as Kurt Vonnegut
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut (or the Friends of Kilgore Trout)
2016
Documentary
Himself
'Hick' Town
2009
Documentary
Himself
Automatic Thirteen
2007
Short
Himself
Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist
2007
Documentary
Himself
Charlie Rose
2007
TV Series
Himself - Guest
Now
2005
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Daily Show
2005
TV Series
Himself
Real Time with Bill Maher
2005
TV Series
Himself
The American Ruling Class
2005
Himself - Novelist
1 Giant Leap
2002
Documentary
Himself
Langmuir's World
1998
Documentary
Himself
American Experience
1997
TV Series documentary
Poetry, Passion, the Postman: The Poetic Return of Pablo Neruda
1996
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Author (as Kurt Vonnegut)
The Dick Cavett Show
1989
TV Series
Himself
The Congress
1988
TV Movie documentary voice
The Day of Five Billion
1987
TV Movie documentary
Himself
Back to School
1986
Himself
Brooklyn Bridge
1981
Documentary voice
The David Frost Show
1972
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time
2017
Documentary post-production
Himself
Nelson Algren: The End Is Nothing, the Road Is All...
$200,000
