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Fates Worse than Death by Kurt Vonnegut

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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.
1363 words, approx. 4.5 pages
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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Fates Worse than Death Information
546 words, approx. 2 pages
<i>Fates Worse than Death</i>, subtitled An Autobiographical Collage, is a 1990 collection of essays, speeches, and other previously uncollected writings by author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.. In the introduction to the book, Vonnegut acknowledges that the book...


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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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