Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Kurt Vonnegut across 6 places, from 1922 to 2007.
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Kurt Vonnegut (November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Kurt Vonnegut was documented, and when
11 November 1922exact date
Indianapolisattested“Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis, on November 11, 1922, the youngest of three children of Kurt Vonnegut Sr.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1951year
Cape Cod, Massachusettsattested“I don't trust the freelancer's life, it's tough." Nevertheless, in early 1951 Vonnegut moved with his family to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, to write full time, leaving GE behind.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1970 to 1974period
Harvard Universityattested“In addition to briefly teaching at Harvard University as a lecturer in creative writing in 1970, Vonnegut taught at the City College of New York as a distinguished professor during the 1973–1974 academic year.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1970 to 1974period
City College of New Yorkattested“In addition to briefly teaching at Harvard University as a lecturer in creative writing in 1970, Vonnegut taught at the City College of New York as a distinguished professor during the 1973–1974 academic year.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1971year
New Yorkattested“The couple battled over their differing beliefs until Vonnegut moved from their Cape Cod home to New York in 1971.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
11 April 2007exact date
Manhattanattested“On the package Brown & Williamson promised to kill me." Vonnegut died in Manhattan on the night of April 11, 2007, as a result of brain injuries incurred several weeks prior in a fall at his brownstone home.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
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1936year
Indianapolismentioned“Vonnegut enrolled at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1936.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1936year
Shortridge High Schoolmentioned“Vonnegut enrolled at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1936.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1940year
Ithaca, New Yorkmentioned“"Each person has something he can do easily and can't imagine why everybody else has so much trouble doing it." After graduating from Shortridge in 1940, Vonnegut enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1940year
Ithacamentioned“"Each person has something he can do easily and can't imagine why everybody else has so much trouble doing it." After graduating from Shortridge in 1940, Vonnegut enrolled at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1944year
Camp Atterburymentioned“In early 1944, the ASTP was canceled due to the Army's need for soldiers to support the D-Day invasion, and Vonnegut was ordered to an infantry battalion at Camp Atterbury, south of Indianapolis in Edinburgh, Indiana, where he trained as…”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1944year
Edinburgh, Indianamentioned“In early 1944, the ASTP was canceled due to the Army's need for soldiers to support the D-Day invasion, and Vonnegut was ordered to an infantry battalion at Camp Atterbury, south of Indianapolis in Edinburgh, Indiana, where he trained as…”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1944year
Edinburghmentioned“In early 1944, the ASTP was canceled due to the Army's need for soldiers to support the D-Day invasion, and Vonnegut was ordered to an infantry battalion at Camp Atterbury, south of Indianapolis in Edinburgh, Indiana, where he trained as…”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
December 1944month
Battle of the Bulgementioned“In December 1944, he fought in the Battle of the Bulge, one of the last German offensives of the war.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
May 1945month
Le Havrementioned“After the captives were abandoned by their guards, Vonnegut reached a prisoner-of-war repatriation camp in Le Havre, France, in May 1945, with the assistance of the Soviet Army, which had liberated that part of Germany.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1 September 1945exact date
United Statesmentioned“After he returned to the United States, 22-year-old Vonnegut married Jane Marie Cox, his high-school girlfriend and classmate since kindergarten, on September 1, 1945.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1958year
Newark Bay rail accidentmentioned“In 1958, his sister, Alice, died of cancer two days after her husband, James Carmalt Adams, was killed in a train accident.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1964year
Cape Codmentioned“Rosewater (1964) on an accountant he knew in Cape Cod who specialized in clients in trouble he often had to comfort.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
1970year
Biaframentioned“In 1970, Vonnegut was also a correspondent in Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
7 October 1970exact date
New Yorkmentioned“Vonnegut also wrote a play called Happy Birthday, Wanda June, which opened on October 7, 1970, at New York's Theatre de Lys.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Vonnegut
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