Breakfast of Champions is the seventh novel by an author that died in this year?
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Breakfast of Champions "Breakfast of Champions, or Goodbye Blue Monday," published in 1973, is the seventh novel by the American author Kurt Vonnegut. Set predominantly in the fictional town of Midland City, Indiana, it is the story of "two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast." One of these men, Dwayne Hoover, is a charming but deeply deranged Pontiac dealer, and extensive land and franchise owner, whose mental illness causes him to believe that a science fiction story by the other man, Kilgore Trout, is the literal truth. Trout, a largely unknown pulp science fiction writer who has appeared in several other Vonnegut novels, looks like a crazy old man but is in fact relatively sane. As the novel opens, Trout hitchhikes toward Midland City to appear at an art convention where he is destined to meet Dwayne Hoover and unwittingly inspire him to run amok.
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Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ( ; November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969).
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She Died a Lady She Died a Lady is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale.
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Carlton Dawe William Carlton Lanyon Dawe, generally known as Carlton Dawe (30 July 1865 – 30 May 1935), was a prolific Australian author of over seventy-seven books including romance, mystery and crime.
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Diedrich Diederichsen Diedrich Diederichsen (born August 15, 1957) is a German author, music journalist and cultural critic. He is one of Germany′s most renowned intellectual writers at the crossroads of the arts, politics, and pop culture.
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Daniel P. Mannix Daniel Pratt Mannix IV (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1911 – Malvern, Pennsylvania, January 29, 1997) was an American author, journalist, photographer, sideshow performer, stage magician, animal trainer, and filmmaker. His best-known works are the 1958 book "Those About to Die", which remained in continuous print for three decades, and the 1967 novel "The Fox and the Hound" which in 1981 was adapted into an animated film by Walt Disney Productions.
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The Seventh Gate The Seventh Gate (1994) is the final novel by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman in their seven-book Death Gate Cycle series.
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Zilpha Keatley Snyder Zilpha Keatley Snyder (May 11, 1927 – October 8, 2014) was an American author of books for children and young adults. Three of Snyder's works were named Newbery Honor books: "The Egypt Game", "The Headless Cupid" and "The Witches of Worm". She was most famous for writing adventure stories and fantasies.
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Frank Farmer (writer) Frank O. Farmer (April 7, 1924 - February 17, 2014) was an author and writer.
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Henry Morton Robinson Henry Morton Robinson (September 7, 1898 – January 13, 1961) was an American novelist, best known for "A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake" written with Joseph Campbell and his 1950 novel "The Cardinal", which "Time" magazine reported was "The year's most popular book, fiction or nonfiction."
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James Crumley James Arthur Crumley (October 12, 1939 – September 17, 2008) was the author of violent hardboiled crime novels and several volumes of short stories and essays, as well as published and unpublished screenplays. He has been described as "one of modern crime writing's best practitioners", who was "a patron saint of the post-Vietnam private eye novel" and a cross between Raymond Chandler and Hunter S. Thompson. His book "The Last Good Kiss" has been described as "the most influential crime novel of the last 50 years."
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Ross Lockridge Jr. Ross Franklin Lockridge Jr., (April 25, 1914 – March 6, 1948) was an American novelist of the mid-20th century. He is noted for "Raintree County" (1948), a widely praised novel which many readers and critics considered a contender for the "Great American Novel," and for his death by suicide just as it was reaching the top of the best-seller lists.
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Carolyn Slaughter Carolyn Slaughter (born 7 January 1946) is a critically acclaimed English author now living in the United States. Her first novel "The Story of the Weasel" won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1977, given to authors under the age of 40.
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Vincent Starrett Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett ( ; October 26, 1886 – January 5, 1974), known as Vincent Starrett, was an American writer, newspaperman, and bibliophile.
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Walter Raymond Walter Raymond (13 March 1852 – 2 April 1931) was an English novelist. He wrote many novels between 1890 and 1928, primarily based in Somerset, and also wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cobbleigh. Some of his titles include "Gentleman Upcott's Daughter" (1892), "Love and Quiet Life" (1894), "Fortune's Darling" (1901), and "Verity Thurston" (1926). He died in Southampton on 2 April 1931 at the age of 79. Raymond's work is long out of print and currently gets little attention, although some novels are now available for free online.
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Jay Anson Jay Anson (November 4, 1921 – March 12, 1980) was an American author whose most famous work was "The Amityville Horror". After the runaway success of that novel, he wrote "666", which also dealt with a haunted house. He died in 1980.
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Chip Hilton William "Chip" Hilton is the central character in a series of 24 sports novels for adolescent boys written by the successful college basketball coach and 1968 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Clair Bee (1896–1983). In addition to Bee's authorship of the Chip Hilton series, he was also the author of several basketball and coaching technique books. The Chip Hilton series was published between 1948 and 1966 by Grosset & Dunlap, with Bee's last manuscript, "Fiery Fullback," published in 2002.
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Vince Flynn Vincent Joseph "Vince" Flynn (April 6, 1966 – June 19, 2013) was an American author of political thriller novels. He also served as a story consultant for the fifth season of the television series "24". He died on June 19, 2013, after a three-year battle with prostate cancer.
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Robert Kanigel Robert Kanigel (born May 28, 1946) is an American biographer and science writer, known as the author of seven books and more than 400 articles, essays, and reviews.
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Ian Cochrane (novelist) Ian Cochrane (7 November 1941 – 9 September 2004) was a novelist and creative writing teacher. His novels are known for dark humour and tragic endings.
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George E. Curry George Edward Curry (February 23, 1947 – August 20, 2016) was an American journalist. Considered the "dean of black press columnists", Curry's weekly commentaries enjoyed wide syndication. He died of heart failure on August 20, 2016.
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Perry Moore William Perry Moore IV (November 4, 1971 – February 17, 2011), widely known as Perry Moore, was an American author, screenwriter, and film director. He was an executive producer of "The Chronicles of Narnia" film series and the author of "Hero", an award-winning novel about a homosexual teenage superhero.