Kurt Vonnegut

I decided that since most of the books I'm reading are written by Kurt Vonnegut, I decided to do some research about him.


He was born Nov. 11, 1922 in Indianapolis. His parents were actually wealthy people who traveled world wide. Vonnegut majored in chemistry and biology when attending Cornell University because his father wanted him to study something "solid". When he was about to be kicked out of school for failing his classes, he enlisted in the army.

In September 1, 1945, after having returned from war, he married a friend he has known since kindergarten: Jane Marie Cox. To continue his education, he went to the University of Chicago to get his Masters as an anthropology student. During that time he also worked as a police news reporter for the Chicago City News Bureau. However when his master's thesis was rejected, Vonnegut moved to New York where his career began to start. He worked for a company called General Electric as a publicist but when his short story: "Report on the Barnhouse Effect" made him enough money, he moved his family to Cape Cod.

His first published fiction book was called The Player Piano. However tragedy hit his life. By the time he published his second book, The Sirens of Titans, in 1959 he had lost his sister to cancer and his father. He adopted his sister's three children to his own family which already consisted of three children.