Kurt Vonnegut
| Full Name: |
Kurt
Vonnegut |
| Born: |
November 22, 1922
Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Died: |
April 11, 2007
New York City, New York |
| Occupation: |
Novelist, Essayist |
| Nationality: |
American |
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Biography
Kurt Vonnegut was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels, four plays, and three short story collections, in addition to countless works of short fiction and nonfiction. He died in 2007.
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