Edith "Edie" Vonnegut (born December 29, 1949) is an American painter. Her work—most of which juxtaposes heavenly beings and mundane activities—has been showcased at galleries across the United States, and is featured in the book ''Domestic Goddesses'', along with her humorous commentary.

Life and career

Born December 29, 1949 in

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, Vonnegut is the daughter of novelist

Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut ( ; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author known for his Satire, satirical and darkly humorous novels. His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfict ...

and his first wife, Jane Marie (Cox), and the sister of

Mark Vonnegut Mark Vonnegut (born May 11, 1947) is an American pediatrician and author. He is the son of writer Kurt Vonnegut. He is the brother of Edith Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut. He described himself in the preface to his 1975 book as "a hippie, son of ...

and Nanette Vonnegut. Her paternal grandmother is Edith Lieber Vonnegut. She grew up in

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and her parents supported her desire to become an artist. She graduated from Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and

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. When her father became famous she got swept into the limelight with him, living in

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for fifteen years until returning to

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to start a family. While initially concerned having children would doom her career as an artist, it turned out to be a fertile source for her painting. Since 1985, she has been married to John Squibb; they have two sons together. She was once married to television personality

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and has published under the names Edith Vonnegut, Edith Vonnegut Rivera, and Edith Vonnegut Squibb. Vonnegut studied transcendental meditation with her mother, Jane, in 1967. She edited a collection of her father's love letters to her mother that he wrote during his service during

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in a book ''Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945''. Some letters were typed, while others were handwritten and illustrated. They foreshadowed the person Kurt Vonnegut would become and reveal that Jane's advice and counsel were instrumental in shaping the writer he became.

Partial bibliography

* (dedication: "for Geraldo") * *

References

External links

Official website
1949 births 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American women painters American people of German descent Living people Painters from New York (state) People from Schenectady, New York Vonnegut family {{US-painter-1940s-stub