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A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

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Author Biography

Name: Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Birth Date: November 11, 1922
Place of Birth: Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: writer, essayist, dramatist

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Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (born 1922) is acknowledged as a major voice in American literature and applauded for his pungent satirical depictions of modern society. Emphasizing the comic absurdity of the human condition, he frequently depicts characters who sear...
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Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
16774 words, approx. 55.9 pages
[This entry was updated by Peter J. Reed (University of Minnesota) from his entry in DLB 152: American Novelists Since World War II, Fourth Series.] Though Kurt Vonnegut had been a widely read short-story writer throughout the 1950s and though his novels...
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Biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
14474 words, approx. 48.2 pages
As of 1987 Kurt Vonnegut's work includes twelve novels, a play and a television play, two collections of short stories, two collections of essays, and a miscellany of uncollected shorter pieces of fiction and nonfiction. He is himself the subject of a nu...
 


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A Man Without a Country Information
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A Man Without a Country is a collection of essays published in 2005 by the author Kurt Vonnegut. The extremely short essays that comprise this book deal with topics ranging from the importance of humor, to problems with modern technology, to Vonnegut's...


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Vonnegut's hometown honors late author
4/28/2007: 468 words, approx. 2 pages
A hometown celebration of Kurt Vonnegut's life and literary prowess was highlighted Friday night with the last thing the author wrote _ a speech he had planned to deliver himself at Butler University.Vonnegut wrote the 13-page lecture two weeks before he died at age 84...
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No country would accept convicted imam
1/15/2007: 585 words, approx. 2 pages
The former imam of Ohio's largest mosque became a man without a country after being convicted of concealing his ties to terrorist groups.Fawaz Damra was rejected by 72 countries and left with no choice but to be deported to his native West Bank, leading to...
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Novelist Kurt Vonnegut dies at age 84
4/12/2007: 1,051 words, approx. 4 pages
Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," died Wednesday. He was 84.Vonnegut, who often marveled that he had lived so long despite his lifelong smoking...
 


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