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Kurt Vonnegut
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Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him as "a true artist" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, "one of the best living American writers.” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
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Kurt Vonnegut is among the very few grandmasters of contemporary American letters. His novels include Cat’s Cradle , Slaughterhouse Five , and Breakfast of Champions . His newest best-selling book, Man Without A Country , is a collection of essays and articles.
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CNN noted recently that Kurt Vonnegut has "re-emerged" on the top of the best seller lists. THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY "has reached the top 10 on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, and publisher Seven Stories Press has already more than doubled its first printing, from 50,000 copies to 110,000."
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Kurt Vonnegut's first novel, Player Piano, published in 1952, heralded the beginning of one of the most diverting and provocative adventures in modern American fiction. Vonnegut went on to write novels that perhaps had greater formal skill and technique, but Player Piano is a tour de force of imaginative insight into modern life and a shrewd satire of American progress. What must Vonnegut's first readers have made of Player Piano? more info>> 2002
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Soon after his return from the war, Kurt Vonnegut married his high school girlfriend, Jane Marie Cox. The couple had three children. He worked several jobs before his writing career took off, including newspaper reporter, teacher, and public relations employee for General Electric. The Vonneguts ... adopted his sister’s three children after her death in 1958.
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Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922, the son of a successful architect. After attending Cornell University, where he majored in chemistry and biology, he enlisted in the United States Army, serving in the Second World War and eventually being taken prisoner by the German Army. As a prisoner, Vonnegut survived the notorious bombing of Dresden which killed some 135,000 citizens. Vonnegut and fellow Allied POWs took shelter in an underground meat locker. This experience was to provide the basis for one of his most famous works, SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE.
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