Edith Vonnegut

Edith Vonnegut
Born	(1949-12-29) December 29, 1949 (age 75) Schenectady, New York, U.S.
Other names	Edith Vonnegut Rivera; Edith Vonnegut Squibb
Occupation	Painter
Parent(s)	Kurt Vonnegut and Jane Marie (Cox)
Relatives	Mark Vonnegut (brother)

Edith "Edie" Vonnegut (born December 29, 1949) is an American painter. ^[1]

Her work—most of which juxtaposes heavenly beings and mundane activities—has been showcased at galleries across the United States, ^[2] and is featured in the book Domestic Goddesses, along with her humorous commentary. ^[3]

Life and career

Born December 29, 1949 in Schenectady, New York, Vonnegut is the daughter of novelist Kurt Vonnegut and his first wife, Jane Marie (Cox), ^{[4] [5]} and the sister of Mark Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut. Her paternal grandmother is Edith Lieber Vonnegut. ^[4] She grew up in Barnstable, Massachusetts and her parents supported her desire to become an artist. ^[6] She graduated from Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and University of Iowa. ^[2]

When her father became famous she got swept into the limelight with him, living in New York City for fifteen years until returning to Cape Cod 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. ^[6] Since 1985, she has been married to John Squibb; ^[6] they have two sons together. ^[2]

She was once married to television personality Geraldo Rivera and has published under the names Edith Vonnegut, Edith Vonnegut Rivera, and Edith Vonnegut Squibb. ^{[7] [8]} Vonnegut studied transcendental meditation with her mother, Jane, in 1967. ^[9]

She edited a collection of her father's love letters to her mother that he wrote during his service during World War II in a book Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945. ^[10] 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. ^[10]

Partial bibliography

• Vonnegut Rivera, Edith (1973). Nora's Tale. R. W. Baron. ISBN   978-0-87777-048-0. (dedication: "for Geraldo")
• Vonnegut, Edith (1998). Domestic Goddesses . Pomegranate. ISBN   978-0-7649-0687-9. ^[11]
• Vonnegut, Kurt (2020). Vonnegut, Edith (ed.). Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945. New York: Random House. ISBN   978-0-593-13301-9. ^{[10] [12]}

References

1. "Edith Vonnegut | Bio" . Retrieved August 14, 2024.
2. Berry, S. L. (2004). "Four Generations Represented in Show". The Indianapolis Star.
3. Mahany, Barbara (April 25, 1999). "It's Not Women's Work-It's Goddess Duty". Chicago Tribune. ProQuest   418924309.
4. Lloyd, Christopher (April 12, 2007). "American Voice, Hoosier Icon Dies". The Indianapolis Star . p. A2 – via newspapers.com.
5. "Edith Vonnegut | Bio: Selected Bibliography". Archived from the original on December 9, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2015.
6. Stapen, Nancy (October 14, 1993). "Edith Vonnegut: Rubens Meets Real Life". The Boston Globe. p. 69.
7. Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (November 20, 2012). "Kurt Vonnegut's Daughter Nanette Was Never Married to Geraldo Rivera". Observer. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
8. Ryan, Erin Gloria (December 1, 2017). "Geraldo Rivera's 1991 Memoir Is a Horndog's Bible of Workplace Harassment". The Daily Beast. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
9. Shields, Charles J. (November 8, 2011). And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life. Macmillan, November 8, 2011. p. 234. ISBN   978-0805086935 . Retrieved September 19, 2015. TM percolated into the Vonnegut household through Edie … . Edie and Jane enrolled in introductory lectures and paid for their personal mantras … .
10. Matthews, Anne (Winter 2021). "Satirist to the Galaxy". The American Scholar . Washington. pp. 123–124. ProQuest   2463684647.
11. Scott, Susan (January 7, 1999). "Domestic Goddesses by Edith Vonnegut". Calgary Herald. p. HL12 – via newspapers.com.
12. "Nonfiction Reviews | Love, Kurt: The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945". Publishers Weekly . 267 (25). New York. June 22, 2020. ProQuest   2414405748.

External links

• Official website