Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. è stato un autore americano altamente celebrato, noto per i suoi lavori nello sci-fi e nella satira. Nato a Indianapolis nel 1922, Vonnegut frequentò la Cornell University e in seguito prestò servizio nella seconda guerra mondiale come soldato, dove fu prigioniero di guerra e assistette al bombardamento di Dresda, in Germania, un'esperienza che in seguito ispirò una delle sue opere più famose, "Slaughterhouse-Five".

Lo stile di scrittura di Vonnegut spesso rifletteva le sue convinzioni politiche e le sue esperienze. Come intellettuale di sinistra critico, scrisse sui dolori e sui sacrifici della guerra, che risuonarono con molti lettori. Assegnò a tutti i suoi lavori lettere, con "Cat's Cradle" e "Slaughterhouse-Five" che ricevettero un A+, e romanzi come "The Sirens of Titan", "Mother Night", "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" e "Jailbird" che ricevettero un A.

Oltre alla sua scrittura, Vonnegut fu anche un conferenziere e un pittore. Fu riconosciuto come "New York State Author" per il 2001-2003 ed era noto per il suo stile di scrittura unico, che attribuì al suo lavoro di reporter. Vonnegut si definiva anche umanista e socialista e un sostenitore della vita dell'Unione Americana per le libertà civili. Morì nel 2007, lasciando un lascito di romanzi acclamati dalla critica che continuano a incantare i lettori fino ad oggi.
Delta Fiction Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Galápagos 1985
2 Bluebeard 1987
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 Player Piano / Utopia 14 1952
2 The Sirens of Titan 1959
3 Cat's Cradle 1960
4 Mother Night 1961
5 God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater 1965
6 Slaughterhouse-Five 1969
7 Between Time and Timbuktu 1972
8 Breakfast of Champions 1973
9 Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! 1976
10 Jailbird 1979
11 Deadeye Dick 1982
12 Hocus Pocus 1990
13 Timequake 1997
Racconti brevi/Novelle
# Titolo Anno
1 Report on the Barnhouse Effect 1950
2 Unready to Wear 1953
3 The Big Trip Up Yonder 1954
4 2 B R 0 2 B 1968
5 Who Am I This Time? For Romeos and Juliets 1970
6 God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian 1999
7 The Honor of a Newsboy 2009
8 Confido 2009
9 Hall of Mirrors 2009
10 A Song for Selma 2009
11 Hello, Red 2009
12 The Good Explainer 2009
13 King and Queen of the Universe 2009
14 Little Drops of Water 2009
15 The Nice Little People 2009
16 Ed Luby's Key Club 2009
17 Shout about It from the Housetops 2009
18 FUBAR 2009
19 Basic Training 2012
20 Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut (With: Richard Lingeman) 2013
21 Slice of Life 2016
Short Stories/Novellas (with Richard Lingeman)
# Titolo Anno
1 The Big Trip Up Yonder 1954
2 2 B R 0 2 B 1968
3 Who Am I This Time? For Romeos and Juliets 1970
4 God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian 1999
5 The Honor of a Newsboy 2009
6 Confido 2009
7 Hall of Mirrors 2009
8 A Song for Selma 2009
9 Hello, Red 2009
10 The Good Explainer 2009
11 King and Queen of the Universe 2009
12 Little Drops of Water 2009
13 The Nice Little People 2009
14 Ed Luby's Key Club 2009
15 Shout about It from the Housetops 2009
16 FUBAR 2009
17 Basic Training 2012
18 Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut 2013
19 Slice of Life 2016
Raccolte di racconti
# Titolo Anno
1 Canary in a Cat House 1961
2 2BR02B 1962
3 Welcome to the Monkey House 1968
4 Bagombo Snuff Box 1999
5 Armageddon in Retrospect 2008
6 Look at the Birdie 2009
7 While Mortals Sleep 2011
8 Sucker's Portfolio 2012
9 Sinbad 2016
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons 1974
2 Palm Sunday 1981
3 Like Shaking Hands with God 1999
4 Kurt Vonnegut on Mark Twain, Lincoln, Imperialist Wars and the Weather 2004
5 A Man Without a Country 2005
6 Letters 2012
7 We Are What We Pretend To Be 2012
8 If This Isn't Nice What Is? 2013
9 Pity the Reader 2019
Biographies & Memoirs
# Titolo Anno
1 Fates Worse Than Death 1982
2 Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 2020
Plays (with Christopher Sergel)
# Titolo Anno
1 Welcome to the Monkey House (With: Christopher Sergel) 1968
2 Welcome to the Monkey House 1970
3 Happy Birthday, Wanda June 1971
Libri per bambini
# Titolo Anno
1 Sun, Moon, Star 1980
Slaughter-House Five Books (with Ryan North)
# Titolo Anno
1 Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children's Crusade 2020
The Last Interview Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Learning To Live Finally (By: Jacques Derrida) 2005
2 Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview (By: Jacques Derrida) 2005
3 Learning to Live Finally: The Last Interview 2005
4 Roberto Bolaño (By: Roberto Bolaño) 2009
5 Kurt Vonnegut 2011
6 Jorge Luis Borges (By: Jorge Luis Borges) 2012
7 Hannah Arendt (By: Hannah Arendt) 2013
8 David Foster Wallace: In His Own Words (By: David Foster Wallace) 2014
9 James Baldwin (By: James Baldwin, Quincy Troupe) 2014
10 Ray Bradbury (By: Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller) 2014
11 Gabriel García Márquez (By: Gabriel García Márquez) 2015
12 Lou Reed (By: Lou Reed) 2015
13 Ernest Hemingway (By: Ernest Hemingway) 2015
14 Nora Ephron (By: Nora Ephron) 2015
15 Philip K. Dick (By: Philip K. Dick) 2015
16 J. D. Salinger (By: J.D. Salinger) 2016
17 Oliver Sacks (By: Oliver Sacks) 2016
18 Jane Jacobs (By: Jane Jacobs) 2016
19 David Bowie (By: David Bowie) 2016
20 Martin Luther King, Jr. (By: Martin Luther King Jr.) 2017
21 Christopher Hitchens (By: Christopher Hitchens) 2017
22 Hunter S. Thompson (By: Hunter S. Thompson) 2018
23 Kathy Acker (By: Kathy Acker) 2018
24 Julia Child (By: Julia Child) 2018
25 Ursula K. Le Guin (By: Ursula K. Le Guin) 2019
26 Prince (By: Prince ) 2019
27 Billie Holiday (By: Billie Holiday) 2019
28 Anthony Bourdain (By: Melville House, Helen Rosner) 2019
29 Graham Greene (By: Graham Greene) 2019
30 Toni Morrison (By: Toni Morrison) 2020
31 Frida Kahlo (By: Frida Kahlo) 2020
32 Marilyn Monroe (By: Melville House, Sady Doyle) 2020
33 Ruth Bader Ginsburg (By: Melville House) 2020
34 Shirley Chisholm (By: Shirley Chisholm) 2021
35 The Last Interview (By: Fred Rogers) 2021
36 Fred Rogers (By: Fred Rogers) 2021
37 Johnny Cash (By: Johnny Cash) 2021
38 John Lewis (By: Melville House) 2021
39 Janet Malcolm (By: Melville House) 2022
40 Diego Maradona ( By: Melville House) 2022
41 Kurt Cobain ( By: Melville House) 2022
42 Bell Hooks (By: bell hooks) 2023
43 Octavia E. Butler (By: Melville House) 2023
Comic Tales of Fantasy Books (with Peter Haining)
# Titolo Anno
1 The Flying Sorcerers 1997
2 The Wizards of Odd 1997
3 The Wizards of Odd: Comic Tales of Fantasy 1997
4 Wizards of Odd 1997
5 Ob??dni rycerze 1998
Christopher Sergel Plays (with Christopher Sergel)
# Titolo Anno
1 Meet Me in St. Louis (By: Christopher Sergel, Sally Benson) 1941
2 Cheaper by the Dozen (By: Christopher Sergel) 1950
3 Welcome to the Monkey House (With: Christopher Sergel) 1968
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Connoisseur's Science Fiction 1964
2 ABC of Science Fiction 1968
3 Best SF Vol 7 1971
4 Masks 1971
5 Autumn Light: Illuminations of Age 1978
6 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction 1980
7 The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction / Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1980
8 The Golden Age of Science Fiction 1981
9 Space Odyssey 1983
10 A World of Fiction 1983
11 Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction 1985
12 Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century 1987
13 The Ultimate Frankenstein 1991
14 First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers 1994
15 Cybersex: Aliens, Neurosex and Cyborgasms 1996
16 The Flying Sorcerers 1997
17 Wizards of Odd 1997
18 The Playboy Book of Science Fiction 1998
19 Writers on Writing 2001
20 Big City Cool: Short Stories About Urban Youth 2002
21 Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine 2004
22 Favorite Science Fiction Stories, Volume 2 2010
23 The Best American Mystery Stories 2010 2010
24 Slaughterhouse-Five: Critical Insights 2010
25 Science Fiction Collection 002 2011
26 The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack 2012
27 The Big Book of Classic Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction 2013
28 Lieu: Science Fiction Short Stories 2015
29 Grave Predictions 2016
30 The Ultimate Short Story Bundle 2020