And so it goes: Kurt Vonnegut, a life

Out of print and scared to death

You were an accident, 1922-1940

One of the biggest fools on the hill, 1940-1943

To war in the bridal suite, 1943-1945

Folk Society and the House of Magic, 1945-1947

Stop being such a hardheaded realist, 1948-1951

The dead engineer, 1951-1958

Cooped up with all these kids, 1958-1965

A community of writers, 1965-1967

The big Ka-BOOM, 1967-1969

Goodbye and goodbye and goodbye, 1969-1971

Cultural bureaucrat, 1971-1974

Ripped off, 1975-1979

Looking for Mr. Vonnegut, 1980-1984

Dear celebrity, 1984-1991

Waiting to die, 1992-2007

Appendix. Vonnegut-Lieber family history.