Kurt Vonnegut was born in 1922 in Indianapolis. He was born from a descendant of prominent German-American families. Kurt was sent to public school when he got the great depression. But his other two siblings were studying in private school. In high school years, he edited the daily newspaper of the school. He studied at Cornell College for just two years, with orders from his father and brother to study chemistry, a subject in which he did not do extremely well in. He was the writer of the Cornell Daily Sun. He joined to U.S Army in 1943. The following year, Kurt’s mother committed suicide, and he was taken as a prisoner following the Bulge Battle. After the war, he gets married and entered a master’s degree program in anthropology at the University of Chicago. Kurt also worked in Chicago as a reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau. Then he devoted himself to full time writing where he wrote effectively until his death in 2007.
Kurt published short stories in national magazines during the 1950s. In 1952, Vonnegut’s first novel, Player Piano appeared. Sirens of Titan was published in 1959, followed by
(1962) Mother Night
(1963) Cat’s Cradle
(1965) God Bless You, Mr. Rose-water
(1969) Slaughterhouse Five (his most highly praised work) This novel depicts one of the most horrific massacres in history of European.
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