Kurt Vonnegut's 1956 letter pitching GHQ to the Saalfield Publishing Company in Akron, Ohio, from the Kurt Vonnegut collection at the Lilly Library. The game was rejected at the time and didn't ...

On April 20, 2024, a Facebook profile named Classic Throwback posted a picture of novelist Kurt Vonnegut alongside a quote about buying an envelope. The story in the post was titled, "Kurt ...

“Man created the checkerboard,” Mr. Vonnegut once wrote. While working on novels in the 1950s, he created a board game of his own.

However, Kurt wrote this particular piece not very long before he passed away, and it had to do with the education of our children.

INDIANAPOLIS — Starting Saturday, the Kurt Vonnegut Museum & Library will celebrate the life and legacy of the namesake author with its annual VonnegutFest. According to its website, this year ...

Before Indiana author Kurt Vonnegut was well-known, he was looking for a project to support his growing family. He pitched a board game in the 1950s. It was rejected. Avid Vonnegut fans have heard ...

Few authors are as widely celebrated as Kurt Vonnegut. From the outside, it might be easy to mistake the acclaimed counterculture penman as one who simply writes darkly silly, sci-fi-tinged ...

"The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart has pretty high praise for the work of one of Indiana's biggest writers. Apparently, Indianapolis’ own Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was a major influence on the comedian ...

General Headquarters, or GHQ, is a board game designed by Kurt Vonnegut that was long thought to be lost. But not only was it found, cleaned up, and packaged for sale, it’s back in stock at ...

A decade before “Slaughterhouse-Five,” Vonnegut pitched what he believed would be “the third popular checkerboard game” – behind checkers and chess.

Kurt Vonnegut's artwork, like his writing, invites us to reflect on the human condition with humor and depth. His visual art, characterized by its simple yet poignant line drawings, often critiques ...

He not only acquired the rights from the Vonnegut estate, but he also sorted through six versions of the author’s rules to give the game playable balance. The result: About 67 years after Vonnegut ...