Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was an American author. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published fourteen novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of nonfiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, bestselling novel SlaughterhouseFive .

Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was the youngest of three children of Kurt Vonnegut Sr. and his wife Edith . His older siblings were Bernard and Alice . Vonnegut was almost entirely descended from German immigrants who settled in the United States in the mid19th century his patrilineal greatgrandfather, Clemens Vonnegut of Westphalia, Germany, settled in Indianapolis and founded the Vonnegut Hardware Company. Kurts father, and his father before him, Bernard, were architects the architecture firm under Kurt Sr. designed such buildings as Das Deutsche Haus , the Indiana headquarters of the Bell Telephone Company, and the Fletcher Trust Building. Vonneguts mother was born into Indianapolis high society, as her family, the Liebers, were among the wealthiest in the city, their fortune derived from ownership of a successful brewery.

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