Featured Author: Kurt Vonnegut
Timeline of Works
(in reverse chronological order)| 2007 | Vonnegut dies on April 11, 2007 at the age of 84 |
| 2005 | A Man without a Country - Vonnegut returns with a collection of recent essays on America |
| 1999 | Bagombo Snuff Box - Collection of Vonnegut's first magazine short stories from the 1950's |
| 1999 | God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian - A series of fictional interviews from the after-life with recent history's greatest names |
| 1997 | Timequake - Part biography, part fiction, a glitch in the space-time continuum makes everybody repeat the past decade |
| 1990 | Hocus Pocus - Vietnam vet goes from professor to inmate in a tale that comments on class in America |
| 1990 | Fates Worse Than Death - A follow-up to Palm Sunday that discusses Vonnegut's suicide attempt |
| 1987 | Bluebeard - Satire on art and its commercialization, follows a minor character from Breakfast of Champions |
| 1985 | Galapagos - Stranded on an island during a global crisis, the last 'humans' on earth slowly (de)-evolve |
| 1982 | Deadeye Dick - A freak accident bestows this nickname and leads to a long dark search for absolution |
| 1981 | Palm Sunday - Autobiographical collection of previously unreleased stories, essays, and interviews |
| 1979 | Jailbird - Tale of corporate and governmental corruption following a lowly bureaucrat from the Watergate scandal |
| 1976 | Slapstick - Amid the ruin of western civilization, a man becomes president based on his plan to end loneliness |
| 1974 | Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons - Collection of essays on Vonnegut's life, the world, and other writers |
| 1973 | Breakfast of Champions - Satire of American culture, a car dealer takes fiction for reality and is pushed over the edge |
| 1969 | Slaughterhouse-Five - A man unstuck in time witnesses the firebombing of Dresden and the numbing effects of war |
| 1968 | Welcome to the Monkey House - Collection of short stories that includes Harrison Bergeron and EPICAC |
| 1965 | God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater - A philanthropist looks at human nature while a greedy lawyer aims to dethrone him |
| 1963 | Player Piano - When everything is replaced by machines (even the human mind), can anything be done? |
| 1961 | Mother Night - An American in Germany at the start of WWII becomes a double agent and ends up in an Israeli war trial |
| 1961 | Canary in a Cat House - Collection of twelve short stories, later republished in Welcome to the Monkey House |
| 1959 | The Sirens of Titan - The richest man in America travels through the solar system in this commentary of human nature |
| 1952 | Cat's Cradle - Cold War parody in which "Ice-Nine" replaces nuclear weapons as the tool for humanity's self-destruction |
| 1947 | Vonnegut moves to Schenectady, NY as a publicist for GE (the year they begin dumping PCB's in the Hudson River) |
| 1945 | As a POW in Dresden, Vonnegut witnesses the firebombings which would become the basis for Slaughterhouse-Five |
| 1944 | Vonnegut is captured in the Battle of the Bulge |
| 1943 | Vonnegut enrolls at what is now Carnegie-Mellon, but shortly after enlists in the Army |
| 1940 | Vonnegut attends Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to study Biochemistry |
| 1922 | Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born in Indianapolis, Indiana |
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