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"Kurt Vonnegut, born in 1922 in Indianapolis,"
(Bagombo Snuff Box, back flap).
"Earlier, he had cut his teach on journalism: ;while Attending
Shortridge High School in Indianapolis (1936-1940), he had been a regular
contributor and managing editor of its daily newspaper, The Shortridge
Echo, and in college he worked on The Cornell Daily Sun.
(Bagombo Snuff Box, p. xiv.)
"Vonnegut began writing short stories in the late 1940s while employed in
public relations at General Electric in Schenectady, New York."
(Bagombo Snuff Box, p. xiv.)
"In 1949, Vonnegut sent "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" to Collier's."
"After some revisions, "Barnhouse" became Vonnegut's first story to be accepted
for publication."
(Bagombo Snuff Box, p. xiv.)
""Der Arme Dolmetscher" (The Poor Interpreter) is referred to on the
copyright page of Welcome to the Monkey House and was included in the
manuscript of that collection, but does not appear in the published
work. The citation says that it appeared in The Atlantic
Monthly with the title "Das Ganz Arm Dolmetscher," although in fact
Atlantic used the shorter, grammatically correct title. Another
curiousity: Although it did not appear until July 1955, it may have
been accepted much earlier; the headnote describes Vonnegut as working at
General Electric, when he had left the company by 1959."
(Bagombo Snuff Box, p. xviii.)
""Lover's Anonymous," published in 1963, treats humorously the social
awkwardness occasionsed by the newly emergent "women's liberation.""
(Bagombo Snuff Box, p. xvi.)
Vonnegut switched to writing novels - first paperback originals, The Siren's
of Titan (1959) and Mother Night (1961), and then, beginning with
Cat's Cradle (1963), hardcover.
(Bagombo Snuff Box, p. xvii.)
Books
Player Piano (1952)
The Sirens of Titan (1959)
Mother Night (1961)
Canary in a Cat House (1961)
"As mentioned earlier, Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) included
twenty-three stories. Of these, eleven had appeared in an earlier
collection, now out of print and a rare find, Canary in a Cat House
(1961). "Hall Irwin's Magic Lamp," included in that collection but not
in Monkey House, is included also here, though in a different version
from the original."
(Bagombo Snuff Box, pp. xvii-xviii.)
Cat's Cradle (1963)
"He holds a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago, his
novel Cat's Cradle having been accepted as a thesis."
(Bagombo Snuff Box, back flap.)
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Welcome to the Monkey House (1968)
"Twenty-three stories were collected in Welcome to the Monkey House;"
(Bagombo Snuff Box, p. xiii).
Slaughterhouse-Five
Happy Birthday, Wanda June
Breakfast of Champions
Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons
Slapstick
Jailbird
Palm Sunday
Deadeye Dick
Galápagos
Bluebeard
Hocus Pocus
Fates Worse Than Death
Timequake
Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (1999)
"Twenty-three stories were collected in Welcome to the Monkey House;
now, with this volume, the others can be found in a single collection, too."
(Bagombo Snuff Box, p. xviii.)
"As mentioned earlier, Welcome to the Monkey House (1968) included
twenty-three stories. Of these, eleven had appeared in an earlier
collection, now out of print and a rare find, Canary in a Cat House
(1961). "Hall Irwin's Magic Lamp," included in that collection but not
in Monkey House, is included also here, though in a different version
from the original."
(Bagombo Snuff Box, pp. xvii-xviii.)
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian (1999)
Like Shaking Hands with God: A Conversation about Writing
(1999)