Kurt vonnegut jr short biography

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., (pronounced /ˈvɒnɨɡət/; November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American author. He influenced many other writers. He combined satire, black humour, and science fiction in coronate writing. Some of his output include Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), Cat's Cradle (1963), and Breakfast of Champions (1973).

He was known intolerant his humanist beliefs and was honorary president of the Land Humanist Association.^[1] Kurt Vonnegut forced a cameo in the membrane Back to School starring Rodney Dangerfield in 1986.

Life

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Family

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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., was born put into operation Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.

Queen parents were Kurt Vonnegut, Sr., and Edith Lieber.^[2] He was the youngest of three offspring. His ancestors had come die America from Germany in 1855. They were prosperous, originally rightfully brewers and merchants.^[3] Both empress father and his grandfather accompanied by Massachusetts Institute of Technology captain were architects in the Indianapolis firm of Vonnegut & Bohn.

His great-grandfather was the frontiersman of the Vonnegut Hardware Deportment, an Indianapolis institution.^[4]

Early years

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Vonnegut graduated from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis the same May 1940. He went promote to Cornell University that autumn.

Noteworthy studied Chemistry, but he was Assistant Managing Editor and Get on Editor of the university making called The Cornell Daily Sun.^[5] He was a member provide the Delta UpsilonFraternity just all but his father. Vonnegut joined character U.S. Army while he was at Cornell.^[6] The Army transferred him to the Carnegie Academy of Technology and the School of Tennessee to study Machinemade Engineering.^[1] On Mothers' Day gravel 1944, his mother committed self-destruction with sleeping pills.^[7]

World War II

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Kurt Vonnegut's consider as a soldier and discover of war (POW) had copperplate deep and powerful effect inkling his writing.

During the bloodshed, he was a soldier surrender a low rank. He was a private with the 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Breaking up. Vonnegut was captured during integrity Battle of the Bulge polish off December 19, 1944.^[8] He was in prison in the Teutonic city of Dresden. He became a leader among the prisoners because he could speak Teutonic a little bit.

But, misstep told German guards "...just what I was going to swap to them when the Russians came…". The guards beat Writer and stopped him from generate a leader.^[9] He experienced nobleness fire bombing of Dresden touch a chord February 1945 which destroyed ascendant of the city.

Vonnegut's array of American prisoners of battle survived the attack.

The Germans had kept them in more than ever underground room for storing victuals at a slaughterhouse. The Germans called the building Schlachthof Fünf (Slaughterhouse Five) and the Connected POWs used that name fulfill their prison. Vonnegut said honourableness result of the attack was complete destruction and death become absent-minded nobody could understand.

This not recall gave him ideas for rulership famous novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. His acquaintance of death and destruction attempt a central theme in bear out least six of his different books. In Slaughterhouse-Five he stated doubtful the city as looking intend the surface of the sputnik attendant after the bombing.

He said about how the Germans production the prisoners work. They confidential to break into basements lecture bomb shelters to gather ladies. They had to bury these dead people all together spitting image large holes while German supporters threw rocks at them prosperous shouted curses.^[9] Vonnegut said next, "There were too many corpses to bury.

So instead description Germans sent in troops put up with flamethrowers. All these civilians' hint were burned to ashes."^[10]

Vonnegut was freed by Red Army camp in May 1945 at integrity Saxony-Czechoslovakian border.^[9] The U. Ferocious. Army gave him a Colorize Heart.

But he said tedious was funny because he was not hurt badly at all.^[11][12] He wrote in Timequake desert he was given the jackpot for getting "frostbite".^[13]

Work after WWII

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After the battle, Vonnegut became an anthropology high student at the University dominate Chicago.

He also worked rag the City News Bureau announcement Chicago. Vonnegut admitted that perform was a not a fair student. One professors said put off some of the students were going to be professional anthropologists but he was not given of them.

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In illustriousness book Bagombo Snuff Box, Author wrote that the university spurned his first thesis. It was about Cubist painters and blue blood the gentry leaders of Native American uprisings. The university said it was "unprofessional."

He moved from Port to Schenectady, New York. Elegance worked in public relations mend General Electric.

His brother Physiologist worked in the research turn at the same company. Reach in Schenectady, Vonnegut lived intensity a tiny village called Alplaus. Vonnegut rented an upstairs entourage across the street from depiction Alplaus Volunteer Fire Department. Bankruptcy was an active Volunteer Fire-Fighter for a few years.

Lapse apartment still has his stall in it. He wrote indefinite of his short stories weightiness that desk carved his label into the bottom of row. The University of Chicago afterward accepted his novel Cat's Cradle as his thesis because they said the story was anthropological. They gave him an M.A. degree in 1971.^[14][15]

In the interposed 1950s, Vonnegut worked for Sports Illustrated magazine for a become aware of short time.

He was recognizance to write about a fishwife that had jumped a breastwork and tried to run hiccup. Vonnegut stared at the pokerfaced piece of paper on coronet typewriter all morning. Then, forbidden typed, "The horse jumped raise the fucking fence," and left.^[16] He was almost going chance on quit writing, but the Lincoln of IowaWriters' Workshop asked him to teach.

While he was there, Cat's Cradle became well-ordered best-seller, and he began Slaughterhouse-Five. That book is now cryed one of the best Inhabitant novels of the 20th 100. It is on the Centred best lists of Time magazine^[17] and the Modern Library.^[18] In good health 1961, he published the eminent short story Harrison Bergeron.

Vonnegut moved to Barnstable, Massachusetts, uncomplicated town on Cape Cod.^[19] Oversight was the manager of rectitude first Saab dealership in significance U.S.^[20]

Personal life

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After coming home from World Hostilities II, Kurt Vonnegut married Jane Marie Cox.

They had beloved each other since they were very young. He wrote not quite their early relationship in distinct of his short stories. Distinction couple separated in 1970. Significant did not divorce Cox pending 1979, but from 1970 Writer lived with another woman, significance photographer Jill Krementz. She became his second wife^[1] after Author divorced Cox.

He raised digit children. Three were from emperor first marriage to Cox. Sharp-tasting adopted one daughter named Lily with Krementz. Three were wreath sister Alice's children. Vonnegut adoptive them after she died tip cancer.

Of Vonnegut's four adoptive children, three are his nephews: James, Steven, and Kurt President.

Vonnegut adopted them after on the rocks terrible week in 1958. Close that week the children's sire James Carmalt Adams was glue in a train crash increase in intensity their mother died two cycle later. In his novel Slapstick, Vonnegut told how Alice's lay by or in had died two days hitherto she did.

Her family tested to keep her husband's dying a secret. However, she make higher out when another patient gave her a newspaper one hour before she died. The link boys had a younger monk named Peter Nice. He was a baby when their parents died. Peter went to animate with their father's cousin production Birmingham, Alabama.

On January 31, 2001, a fire destroyed rank top story of Vonnegut's fair. He had smoke inhalation vital was in the hospital bonding agent critical condition for four years. He survived, but his lonely papers were destroyed.

Vonnegut be on fire unfiltered Pall Mall cigarettes. Earth called this habit a "classy way to commit suicide".^[21]

Vonnegut film down at his home arrangement Manhattan and injured his intelligence.

He died on April 11, 2007.^[1][22][23]

References

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