Books on Vonnegut

  • Allen, William Rodney, ed.  Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut. Jackson: U of Mississippi P, 1988.
  •                   .  Understanding Kurt Vonnegut. Columbia: U of South Carolina    P, 1991.
  • Augello, Chuck. Talking Vonnegut: Centennial Interviews and Essays. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2023
  • Bloom, Harold, ed.  Kurt Vonnegut. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2000.
  • Bly, William.  Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five. Woodbury, NY: Barron’s Educational Series, 1985.
  • Boon, Kevin A., ed.  At Millennium’s End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut. Albany: State U of New York P, 2001.
  •                   .  Chaos Theory and the Interpretation of Literary Texts: The Case of Kurt Vonnegut. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen P, 1997.
  • Broer, Lawrence R.  Sanity Plea: Schizophrenia in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut. 2nd ed. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1994.
  • _____.  Vonnegut and Hemingway:  Writers at War.  Columbia, SC:  University of South Carolina Press, 2011.
  • Chernuchin, Michael, ed.  Vonnegut Talks! Forest Hills, NY: Pylon P, 1977.
  • Davis, Todd F. Kurt Vonnegut’s Crusade. Albany: State U of New York P, 2006.
  • Farrell, Susan. Critical Companion to Kurt Vonnegut: A Literary Reference to his Life and Work. New York: Facts on File Press, 2008.
  • Giannone, Richard.  Vonnegut: A Preface to His Novels. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat P, 1977.
  • Goldsmith, David H.  Kurt Vonnegut: Fantasist of Fire and Ice. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green U Popular P, 1972.
  • Hudgens, Betty L. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Checklist. Detroit: Gale, 1972.
  • Jarvis, Christina. Lucky Mud & Other Foma. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2022.
  • Jones, Peter G. War and the Novelist: Appraising the American War Novel. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 1976.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome.  Kurt Vonnegut. London: Methuen, 1982.
  •                   .  Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming the Novel and the World. Boston: Twayne, 1990.
  •                   .  Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subjects in Contemporary American Fiction. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 1992.
  •                   .  The Vonnegut Effect. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2004.
  •                   .  Vonnegut in Fact: The Public Spokesmanship of Personal Fiction. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 1998.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome, and Donald L. Lawler, eds.  Vonnegut in America. New York: Delacort P/Seymour Lawrence, 1977.
  • Klinkowitz, Jerome, and John Somer, eds.  The Vonnegut Statement: Original Essays on the Life and Work of Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Delacort P/Seymour Lawrence, 1973.
  • Leeds, Marc.  The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995.
  • Leeds, Marc, and Peter J. Reed.  Kurt Vonnegut: Images and Representations. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
  • Lundquist, James.  Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Ungar, 1977.
  • Marvin, Thomas F.  Kurt Vonnegut: A Critical Companion. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002.
  • Mayo, Clark.  Kurt Vonnegut: The Gospel from Outer Space. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo P, 1977.
  • McInnis, Gilbert.  Kurt Vonnegut:  Myth and Science in the Postmodern World.  Peter Lang, 2020.
  • McMahon, Gary.  Kurt Vonnegut and the Centrifugal Force of Fate.  Jefferson, NC:  McFarland, 2009.
  • Merrill, Robert, ed.  Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990.
  • Morse, Donald E.  Kurt Vonnegut. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo P, 1992.
  •                   .  Novels of Kurt Vonnegut: Imagining Being an American. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2003.
  • Mustazza, Leonard, ed.  Critical Response to Kurt Vonnegut. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994.
  • Mustazza, Leonard.  Forever Pursuing Genesis: The Myth of Eden in the Novels of Kurt Vonnegut. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 1990.
  • Pettersson, Bo. The World According to Kurt Vonnegut: Moral Paradox and Narrative Form. Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademi UP; 1994.
  • Pieratt, Asa B. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Descriptive Bibliography and Annotated Secondary Checklist. Hamden, CT: Archon, 1974.
  • Pieratt, Asa B., Julie Huffman-Klinkowitz, and Jerome Klinkowitz.  Kurt Vonnegut: A Comprehensive Bibliography. North Haven, CT: Archon Books, 1987.
  • Rackstraw, Loree, ed.  Draftings in Vonnegut: The Paradox of Hope. Cedar Falls: U of Northern Iowa P, 1988.
  • _____.  Love as Always, Kurt:  Vonnegut as I Knew Him.  Philadelphia, PA:  Da Capo, 2009.
  • Reed, Peter J.  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. New York: Warner Paperback Library, 1972.
  •                   .  Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997.
  • Reed, Peter J., and Marc Leeds, eds.  Kurt Vonnegut: Images and Representations. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
  •                   , eds.  Vonnegut Chronicles: Interviews and Essays. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.
  • Schatt, Stanley.  Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Boston: Twayne, 1976.
  • Shields, Charles J.  And So It Goes:  Kurt Vonnegut:  A Life.  New York:  Henry Holt and Co., 2011.
  • Short, Robert.  Something to Believe In: Is Kurt Vonnegut the Exorcist of Jesus Christ Superstar? New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
  • Simmons, David, ed. New Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut. London: Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2009.
  • Strand, Ginger.  The Brothers Vonnegut:  Science and Fiction in the House of Magic.  New York:  Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
  • Sumner, Gregory D.  Unstuck in Time:  A Journey Through Kurt Vonnegut’s Life and Novels.  New York:  Seven Stories Press, 2012.
  • Tally, Robert T. Jr.  Kurt Vonnegut and the American Novel: A Postmodern Iconography. London: Continuum, 2011.
  •                   , ed. Kurt Vonnegut: Critical Insights. Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2013.
  • Tally, Robert T. Jr. and Peter C. Kunze, eds. Kurt Vonnegut and Humor, special issue of Studies in American Humor New Series 3, No. 26 (2012).
  • Thomas, P. L. Reading, Learning, Teaching Kurt Vonnegut. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.
  • Wakefield, Dan, ed.  Kurt Vonnegut:  Letters.  New York:  Delacorte, 2012.
  • Yarmolinsky, Jane Vonnegut.  Angels Without Wings: A Courageous Family’s Triumph Over Tragedy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.