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Kurt Vonnegut

Novelist and essayist

United States · 1922–2007

Arts and letters

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American novelist whose books include Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. He was captured at the Battle of the Bulge and was a prisoner of war in Dresden during the Allied firebombing of the city in February 1945, the experience that Slaughterhouse-Five draws on.

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