Kurt Vonnegut
Jr. Was an American author. He was born at November 11th 1922 and he
died at April 11th 2007. His father (Kurt Vonnegut) and his
grandfather (Bernard Vonnegut) were architects in the Indianapolis firm
Vonnegut & Bohn.
Vonnegut’s
most famous works are “Cats Cradle” (1963), “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1969) and “Breakfast
of Champions” (1973). He wrote in the genres satire, gallows humor and science
fiction.
Kurt Vonnegut
Jr. had an older brother (Bernard Vonnegut) and a sister (Alice Vonnegut). His mother
committed suicide with sleeping pills when Vonnegut was 22 years old. Kurt Vonnegut
was also an artist. In May 1940 he graduated from Shortridge High School and
went to Cornell University to study chemistry. While he was at Cornell
University he enlisted at United States Army. After that he went to the
Carnegie Institute of Technology and the University of Tennessee to study
mechanical engineering.
When Vonnegut
went home after the Second World War he got married with Jane Marie Cox and
they had three kids. They got divorced in 1979 and Vonnegut married another
woman called Jill Krementz. With her he adopted a little girl. Vonnegut also
adopted his sister’s three kids when Alice Vonnegut died of cancer in 1958. Alice’s
husband died in an accident two days before Alice died.