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Kurt Vonnegut

1922 - 2007

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Kurt Vonnegut ( VON-ə-gət; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty-plus years; further works have been published since his death. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut attended Cornell University, but withdrew in January 1943 and enlisted in the U.S. Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Vonnegut is the 91st most popular writer (up from 436th in 2019), the 78th most popular biography from United States (up from 413th in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Writer.

Kurt Vonnegut is most famous for his novels Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat's Cradle.

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Among writers, Kurt Vonnegut ranks 91 out of 7,302. Before him are Kālidāsa, Maxim Gorky, Du Fu, Pablo Neruda, George Bernard Shaw, and Maurice Maeterlinck. After him are Giorgio Vasari, Milan Kundera, Heinrich Heine, Louisa May Alcott, Erich Maria Remarque, and Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Among people born in 1922, Kurt Vonnegut ranks 1. After him are José Saramago, Yitzhak Rabin, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Christopher Lee, Judy Garland, Stan Lee, Hiroo Onoda, Norodom Sihanouk, Franjo Tuđman, Thomas Kuhn, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Among people deceased in 2007, Kurt Vonnegut ranks 4. Before him are Boris Yeltsin, Luciano Pavarotti, and Ingmar Bergman. After him are Michelangelo Antonioni, Mohammed Zahir Shah, Kurt Waldheim, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ève Curie, Jean Baudrillard, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Carlo Ponti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kurt Vonnegut ranks 78 out of 20,380. Before him are George H. W. Bush (1924), Henry Ford (1863), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), Danny DeVito (1944), James Stewart (1908), and Barbara Bush (1925). After him are Warren Buffett (1930), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Patrick Swayze (1952), Charles Lindbergh (1902), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), and Helen Keller (1880).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Kurt Vonnegut ranks 10. Before him are Ernest Hemingway (1899), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896), Mark Twain (1835), Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), and George R. R. Martin (1948). After him are Louisa May Alcott (1832), Ursula K. Le Guin (1929), Jack London (1876), Stephen King (1947), Ezra Pound (1885), and Dr. Seuss (1904).

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