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Kurt was born on November 11th, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Kurt had German heritage, but because of World War One, his parents abandoned all German culture, causing them not to teach Kurt German or educate him about his German background

When the great depression hit, his father's successful architecture business collapsed and he was put in public school, unlike his two siblings(Bernard and Alice) who were sent to private school

His mother struggled with depression after their economic declined and tried to submit short stories into magazines, but had no success

He majored in biochemistry in college due to pressure from his family, which he had little success with

During college he wrote in the newspaper and had a column called “innocents abroad”

He was a member of Reserve Officers' Training Corps but because of poor grades and his satirical newspaper articles, he was taken out

He enlisted in the army in  March 1943

His mother committed suicide 3 months before he went to Europe with the army

On December 22nd he was captured with about 50 other American soldiers and was sent to Dresden where he survived the bombing of Dresden

When he got back he married his high school girlfriend, Jane Marie Cox

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Many people view Kurt’s work very highly.  It has many concepts such as PTSD that was not talked about very much before his book was published.  English classes all over the country analyze his works to understand better the atrocities of the world.

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Besides Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut’s works include:

Player Piano

The Sirens of Titan

Mother Night

Cat’s Cradle

God Bless You, Mr.Rosewater or Pearls Before Swine

Breakfast of Champions or Goodbye Blue Monday

Slapstick or Lonesome No More

Jailbird

Deadeye Dick

Galāpogos: A Novel

Bluebeard

Hocus Pocus

Timequake

In addition to books/novels, he also wrote plays

Penelope, revised as Happy Birthday Wanda June

Fortitude

Between Time and Timbuktu

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His favorite writer was George Orwell and tried to copy him

Writers like Aldous Huxley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Henry David Thoreau influenced him to write some of his books

He also modeled his style after Henry David Thoreau

Also inspired him was satirist Jonathan Swift

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Born in Indianapolis, Indiana to third generation German-American parents.

Great grandfather founded the Vonnegut hardware company

He was a chemistry major before the war

Firsts novel, “player piano” was published in 1952

Kilgore Trout is in 4 of his novels

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Kurt’s style of writing is known to be short and concise. He gets to the point and does not linger. He also tends to include satire and other types of comedy to help make his difficult topics easier.

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https://www.vonnegut.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Vonnegut

http://www.vonnegutlibrary.org/about/

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

http://www.biography.com/people/kurt-vonnegut-9520329

Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library

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He’s won 5 awards:

Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (1973)

Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts: US & Canada (1967)

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Playwright (1971)

Writers Guild of America Award for Television Best Script (1960)

Audie Award for Short Stories/Collections (2009)