List of Uncollected Front Matter

After the publication and success of Slaughterhouse-Five, Vonnegut wrote several pieces of front matter for works by other authors, which continued for much of the rest of his life. Many of these were never collected in any publication by Vonnegut himself.

List of Uncollected Front Matter (with Author and Publication Dates)

• Introduction in Our Time is Now: Notes from the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed., 1970
• Foreword in Transformations, Anne Sexton, 1971
• Opening Remarks in The Unabridged Mark Twain, Lawrence Teacher, ed., 1976
• Preface in The Writer's Image, Jill Krementz, 1980
• Introduction in Faces, Paul Davis, 1985
• Foreword in The Seventh Cross, Anna Segher, 1986
• Introduction in The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester, 1986
• Foreword in Varga: The Esquire Years, Alberto Vargas, 1987
• Afterword in Free to Be... a Family, Marlo Thomas, et al., 1987
• Introduction in Larry Rivers: Recent Relief Paintings, Larry Rivers, 1988
• Preface in Love, Action, Laughter and Other Sad Tales, Budd Schulberg, 1989
• Introduction in Warts and All, Drew Friedman and Josh Alan Friedman, 1990
• Foreword in The Fan Man, William Kotzwinkle, 1994
• Foreword in The Vonnegut Encyclopedia: An Authorized Compendium, Marc Leeds, 1996
• Foreword in The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race, Paul Krassner, 1996
• Introduction in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain, 1996
• Foreword in Grand Central Winter, Lee Stringer, 1998
• Foreword in Road to Scottsdale, Albert J. Lieber, 1999
• Introduction in Waterscapes, Landscapes, April Gornik, 1999
• Foreword in Kurt Vonnegut: Images and Representations, Marc Leeds and Peter J. Reed, eds., 2000
• Foreword in A Saucer of Loneliness: The Complete Stories of Theodore Sturgeon, Vol. VII, Theodore Sturgeon, 2000
• Foreword in At Millennium's End: New Essays on the Work of Kurt Vonnegut, Kevin Alexander Boon, ed., 2001
• Foreword in You've Got to Be Carefully Taught: Learning and Relearning Literature, Jerome Klinkowitz, 2001
• Foreword in You Back the Attack! We'll Bomb Who We Want!, Micah Ian Wright, 2003
• Foreword in The Ides of March, Thornton Wilder, 2003
• Foreword in Sleepaway School, Lee Stringer, 2004
• Foreword in The Joke's Over: Ralph Steadman on Hunter S. Thompson, Ralph Steadman, 2006
• Foreword in Bartlett's Words to Live By, 2006

See Also

• "The Best of Bob and Ray", introduction in Write If You Get Work: The Best of Bob and Ray, collected in Palm Sunday
• "Jonathan Swift", rejected introduction to an edition of Gulliver's Travels, collected in Palm Sunday
• "Introduction in Never Come Morning", by Nelson Algren, collected in Fates Worse Than Death
• "Preface in A Very Young Author and Photographer: Jill Krementz at Fifty", a privately printed Festschrift, collected in Fates Worse Than Death