Kilgore Trout as Kurt Vonneguts Alter Ego :: Biography Biographies Essays

Kilgore Trout as Kurt Vonneguts Alter Ego In 1922, two residents of Indianapolis, Indiana had a sonwho would later set about one of the premiere writers in twentiethcentury American literature. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born to Edithand Kurt Sr. on November 11, 1922. He graduated from ShortridgeHigh School in 1940, attended Cornell University for a year, and sojoined the army. He fought in World War II and was captured bythe Germans in 1944. As a Prisoner of War, he lived through thefirebombing of Dresden, an burden which inspired his acclaimednovel, Slaughterhouse-Five. After he returned from Europe inApril of 1945, he hook up with Jane Marie Cox and spent several yearsstudying at the University of lolly and working as a reporterfor the Chicago City intelligence Bureau. In 1947, he went to work atGeneral Electric tum as a research laboratory publicist.He worked there for 3 years until he left to become a full sequencewrit er in 1950. In the past 47 years, he has become one of themost acclaimed writers of our time. Kurt Vonneguts first novel was entitled Player forte-piano andwas published in 1952. Since then, he has written over a 12other novels, collections of short stories, a collection ofessays and interviews, and a play, Happy natal day Wanda June. Hespent 1965 in residence at the University of Iowa WritersWorkshop and taught make-up at Harvard in 1970. He also wasawarded a M.A. degree from the University of Chicago. Vonnegut before long appears on the Barnes and Noble Booksellers bag and isfeatured on a endorse commercial in which he buys a copy of one ofhis ingest books. If one looks through Vonneguts works, one will find manyoccurrences of reoccurring characters, settings, and themes.mayhap one of the most frequently occurring characters isKilgore Trout, an obscure science-fiction writer with a dispirited but