Edith Vonnegut
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Edith "Edie" Vonnegut (born December 29, 1949) is an American painter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Her work—most of which juxtaposes heavenly beings and mundane activities—has been showcased at galleries across the United States,<ref name=Berry2004>Template:Cite news</ref> and is featured in the book Domestic Goddesses, along with her humorous commentary.<ref name= Mahany1999>Template:Cite news</ref>
Life and careerEdit
Born December 29, 1949 in Schenectady, New York, Vonnegut is the daughter of novelist Kurt Vonnegut and his first wife, Jane Marie (Cox),<ref name=Lloyd2007>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the sister of Mark Vonnegut and Nanette Vonnegut. Her paternal grandmother is Edith Lieber Vonnegut.<ref name=Lloyd2007/> She grew up in Barnstable, Massachusetts and her parents supported her desire to become an artist.<ref name=Stapen1993/> She graduated from Boston Museum School of Fine Arts and University of Iowa.<ref name=Berry2004/>
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.<ref name=Stapen1993>Template:Cite news</ref> Since 1985, she has been married to John Squibb;<ref name=Stapen1993/> they have two sons together.<ref name=Berry2004/>
She was once married to television personality Geraldo Rivera and has published under the names Edith Vonnegut, Edith Vonnegut Rivera, and Edith Vonnegut Squibb.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Vonnegut studied transcendental meditation with her mother, Jane, in 1967.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref name=Matthews2021>Template:Cite magazine</ref> 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.<ref name=Matthews2021/>
Partial bibliographyEdit
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