Kurt Vonnegut bibliography
Title Date Notes
Penelope 1960 Later revised as Happy Birthday , Wanda June and reprinted in 1970 . Adapted as a film in 1971
The Very First Christmas Morning December 14 , 1962 Published in Better Homes and Gardens
Fortitude September 1968 One act , published in Playboy ; collected in Human-Machines : An Anthology of Stories About Cyborgs , New York : Vintage , 1975 . Adapted in episode five of the television series Kurt Vonnegut 's Monkey House
Happy Birthday , Wanda June 1971
Requiem 1987 With music by Edgar David Grana
Make Up Your Mind 1993
Miss Temptation 1993 Adapted by David Cooperman
L'Histoire du Soldat 1993 A reworked libretto that Vonnegut made into a tale about World War II Private Eddie Slovik , the first soldier in the United States military to be executed for desertion since the Civil War
Plays
The bibliography of Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) includes essays, books and fiction, as well as film and television adaptations of works written by the Indianapolis-born author. Vonnegut began his literary career with science fiction short stories and novels, but abandoned the genre to focus on political writings and painting in his later life.