Sasha writes:

Kurt Vonnegut is thought of as one of the greatest modern American novelists, a title I can think of no other author more worthy of receiving.
Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922 to Kurt (another one, and there are more to come) and Edith Vonnegut, in Indianapolis Indiana.
Vonnegut attended Cornell University, the Carnegie Institute of Technology and The University of Chicago. As well as being a writer, Vonnegut also enjoyed painting and wood-carving.
He was married twice, the first time to Jane Marie Cox, who he married on September 1st, 1945 and divorced in 1979. Later that year he married Jill Krementz. Between the two marriages Vonnegut had seven children, two of whom were adopted and another of whom was named Kurt.
The most famous works of Kurt Vonnegut are of course Slaughterhouse V, a WWII novel that mixes Vonnegut’s own war memories with the outlandish time travel adventures of Billy Pilgrim, and the novel that I have been assigned, Cat’s Cradle a theological romp through the true meaning of society, organized religion, and god.
Vonnegut has won a number of awards for his work including an Emmy. In 2001, he was named the official author of New York State.
Kurt Vonnegut died on April 11, 2007.
Citation
Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2009. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. February 22, 2009.
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"Kurt Vonnegut." Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 44. Gale Group, 2002.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. February 22, 2009 http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC