Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was a writer, lecturer and painter. He was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired his book "Slaughterhouse Five". First published in 1950, he went on to write fourteen novels (including "The Sirens of Titan" in 1959 and "Cat’s Cradle" in 1963), four plays, and three short story collections as well as countless works of short fiction and nonfiction. Kurt Vonnegut died in 2007.
