Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 into a family of German origin, with a father and grandfather who were architects, ruined by the Depression. He lost his mother in May 1944, was captured in December in the Ardennes, and was in Dresden on 13 February 1945, shut up with other prisoners under a slaughterhouse when the bombs destroyed the city. He then worked in public relations at General Electric, opened a car dealership, taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and published fourteen novels. He died in New York in 2007.

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• NovelSlaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut · 1969Literature