Biographie de Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During the Second World War he served in Europe and, as a prisoner-of-war in Germany, witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which later inspired his classic novel, Slaughterhouse Five. His other novels include Cat's Cradle, Jailbird, Deadeye Dick, Galapogos, Bluebeard, and Hocus Pocus.
He is acclaimed by Graham Greene as one of the test living American writers.