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Kurt Vonnegut is a playwright, writer, screenwriter (United States).
Kurt Vonnegut ( 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.
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| Born | 11 November 1922 |
| Profession | playwright, writer, screenwriter |
| Nationality | United States |
| Employer | Harvard University, University of Chicago, University of Iowa, General Electric |
| Educated at | University of Chicago, Cornell University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Tennessee, Shortridge High School |
| Spouse | Jill Krementz |
| Children | Mark Vonnegut, Edith Vonnegut |
| Awards | Purple Heart, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Mondello Prize, Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame, Humanist of the Year, Carl Sandburg Literary Award |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Cancer |
| Nakshatra | Pushya (Pada 4) |
| Sun Sign | Libra |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Scorpio |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 314 writers and poets with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 25 of them (8%) have the Moon in Cancer, like Kurt Vonnegut, and 10 (3%) share the Pushya Nakshatra — the #17 most common Moon Nakshatra among writers and poets, where Shravana leads with 18 (6%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Kurt Vonnegut was born on 11 November 1922. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Kurt Vonnegut's Moon sign (Rashi) is Cancer and the Nakshatra is Pushya, pada 4, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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