Scope and Contents
The Kurt Vonnegut papers document Kurt Vonnegut's work as a writer and his personal life between the 1950s and 1970s. Items includes manuscript drafts, notebooks, letters and material from Vonneguts time with the General Electric Company.
Dates
- 1924 - 1997
Creator
- Vonnegut, Kurt. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis on November 11, 1922. He was an American novelist best known for such works as Slaughterhouse-five, Cat’s cradle, and God bless you, Mr. Rosewater. He died in Manhattan on April 11, 2007.
Extent
13.75 cubic feet.
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Chiefly incoming correspondence from publishers, agents, friends, and readers, as well as materials relating to Vonnegut's family and personal life from the period he lived in Barnstable, MA (1950s-1970s). Highlights also include his notebooks from his time as a graduate student in anthropology at the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1947 after serving in World War II; several manuscript notes or typescripts of plays, essays, speeches and screenplays; and scrapbooks Vonnegut compiled while living in upstate New York 1947-1950, preserving his work as a publicist for the General Electric Company.
- Status
- Completed
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu