biography
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Vonnegut, Kurt (Jr)
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pronunciation:
[voneguht]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He studied at Cornell (1940–2), the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1943), and the University of Chicago (1945–7; 1971 MA). He served in the US Army (1942–5), and his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Dresden, Germany, influenced his future work, specifically his novel, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). He was a police reporter in Chicago (1947), worked for General Electric Co's public relations (1947–50), and taught at many institutions. He eventually settled in New York City, and produced a steady stream of novels, short stories, non-fiction works, and plays. He was labelled as a science-fiction writer early in his career, but soon began to appear more as a social satirist with such works as Cat's Cradle (1963). He is best known for his irony, wild inventive humour, and themes such as the uneasy balance between technology and humanity. Later novels include Jailbird (1979), Deadeye Dick (1982), and Timequake (1997). |
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