Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Audio Books

Born on Nov. 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, a “fourth-generation German-American religious skeptic Freethinker,” Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was the author of at least 19 novels, many of them best-sellers, as well as dozens of short stories, essays, and plays. Some of his novels were banned and burned for suspected obscenity. Vonnegut took on censorship as an active member of the PEN writers’ aid group and the American Civil Liberties Union. The American Humanist Association, which promotes individual freedom, rational thought and scientific skepticism, made him its honorary president. 

Vonnegut relished the role of a social critic. He lectured regularly, exhorting audiences to think for themselves and delighting in barbed commentary against the institutions he felt were dehumanizing people. When Vonnegut's collection of nonfiction, A Man Without a Country became a bestseller in 2005, he deemed the book's success " a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life."