Kurt Vonnegut Autographs
Kurt Vonnegut (/ˈvɒnəɡət/ 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. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden, where he survived the Allied bombing of the city in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. After the war, he married Jane Marie Cox. He and his wife both attended the University of Chicago while he worked as a night reporter for the City News Bureau.
Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952. It received positive reviews yet sold poorly. In the nearly 20 years that followed, several well regarded novels were published, including The Sirens of Titan (1959) and Cat's Cradle (1963), both of which were nominated for the Hugo Award for best science fiction or fantasy novel of the year. His short-story collection, Welcome to the Monkey House, was published in 1968.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Kurt Vonnegut (Kurt Vonnegut / Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), TRUE FIRST EDITION, SIGNED) was sold in August 2025 for $6,000.00 while the cheapest item (Kurt Vonnegut signed Autographed Envelope First day Issue Katherine Porter) found a new owner for $7.99 in April 2020. The month with the most items sold (49) was August 2025 with an average selling price of $337.00 for an autographed item of Kurt Vonnegut. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in June 2013 with $1,875.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $7.99 was April 2020. In average, an autographed item from Kurt Vonnegut is worth $200.00.
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Latest News about Kurt Vonnegut
What Do ‘Breakfast of Champions’ and ‘The Joy of Sex’ Have in Common? (08/10/2023): Kurt Vonnegut’s novel and Alex Comfort’s sex manual — which topped the best-seller lists 50 years ago this month — are both illustrated. 
Tom McCarthy Thinks the Wrong Kurt Vonnegut Book Is Famous (01/20/2022): “I was really disappointed when I read ‘Slaughterhouse-Five,’” says the author of “The Making of Incarnation” and other novels. “But then I read his ‘Mother Night,’ and thought it was brilliant.” ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’ Review: An Idol Shares the Camera (11/18/2021): Fans of Tralfamadore and more are escorted through the author’s reminiscences, but the focus is swiveled a bit to take in the tour guide himself. Considering Kurt Vonnegut and Who Survives (03/27/2020): This week, Lorrie Moore discusses her life as a reader in By the Book. In 1985, Moore wrote for the Book Review about “Galápagos,” Kurt Vonnegut’s novel about a group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands because of an apocalypse.
