Kurt Vonnegut Biography:
Kurt Vonnegut, born in 1922 in Indianapolis, IN, attended Cornell University before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, where as a prisoner of war he witnessed the bombing of Dresden, Germany, an event which became the basis for his famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five. He died on April 11, 2007.
Kurt Vonnegut, born in 1922 in Indianapolis, IN, attended Cornell University before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, where as a prisoner of war he witnessed the bombing of Dresden, Germany, an event which became the basis for his famous work, Slaughterhouse-Five. He died on April 11, 2007.
After World War II, Vonnegut got married, studied Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and worked as a police reporter for the Chicago News Bureau. He later worked as a publicist for General Electric in Schenectady, NY before leaving to become a full time writer.
Vonnegut taught creative writing at Harvard in 1970, received a Master's degree from the University of Chicago for Cat's Cradle in 1971 and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Literature by Hobart and William Smith College in 1974.
Kurt Vonnegut's novels include Player Piano (1952), Mother Night (1961), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1971), Breakfast of Champions (1973), Slapstick (1976), Deadeye Dick (1982), Gallapagos (1985), Bluebeard (1987), Hocus Pocus (1990), and Timequake (1997). In 2005 he published A Man Without a Country, a work of essays.
Dates:
(1922-2007)
(1922-2007)
Nationality:
American
American
Genre(s):
Short stories; Satires; Novels; Plays; Essays
Short stories; Satires; Novels; Plays; Essays
