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Kurt Vonnegut Jr Essay Research Paper Kurt

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Essay, Research Paper


Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the son of,


Kurt Vonnegut, Sr., a successful architect, and Edith Sophia Vonnegut. He had two


older siblings, a brother Bernard, and a sister Alice. He attended Short ridge high


school. This is where he first realized his talent for writing. He was the editor of the


school newspaper. Kurt graduated in 1940, and after high school, attended Cornell


University and studied bio-chemistry, and was also a columnist and editor of the


Cornell daily sun. However, because of bad grades, Kurt found himself almost flunking


out of Cornell University. He saved himself from expulsion by joining the army in


1942. While in the army, several devastating experiences happened to Kurt. First in


1944, he received the news that his mother had committed suicide. A few months


later Kurt was captured by the German Army. He was forced to produce a vitamin


enriched malt for pregnant women. While doing this he happened to survive the


firebombing of Dresden. His book Slaughterhouse-five is partially about the bombing


of Dresde

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After being rescued by the Soviets, Vonnegut returned home. He was working as


a Police Reporter for the Chicago News Bureau and studying anthropology at the


University of Chicago. He later moved to Schenectedy, New York. Here he worked


in Press Relations for the General Electric Plant. This experience that led to the


creation of his first novel Player Piano, . It was after the publication of this novel that


he moved to Rhode Island, while in addition to writing short stories, he taught High


School English and opened the first Saab dealership in the United States. After


realizing the shrinking of the Short Story market, he began concentrating entirely on


novels.


It was Vonnegut’s novels that gained him critical acclaim in the late sixties and


seventies. His Science Fiction novels created a popularity and demand that nearly


overwhelmed him. He has continued to write novels, his last being Time Quake, in 1997.


Kurt Vonnegut has also written two autobiographical books, Palm Sunday, in 1981, and


Fates Worse than Death, in 1991, but true to his form, neither follows the path of a true


biography.

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