Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut was an American writer. He was born on November 11, 1922 and died on April 11, 2007. He was mostly a science fiction writer. Kurt was born in Indianapolis , Indiana. Kurt fighted on the World War 2. Kurt was reasigned to a combat unit due to the needs of the Allied Invasion of France, Vonnegut was captured while fighting and was forced to keep fighting during this invation. After the war, Vonnegut attended the University of Chicago graduated as an anthropology student and then worked at the City News Bureau of Chicago. Then he left Chicago to work in Schenectady, New York, in the department of public relations for General Electric. In the mid-1950’s, Vonnegut worked very briefly for Sports Illustrated magazine, where he was assigned to write a piece on a racehorse that had jumped a fence and attemped to run away.

After returning from World War II, Kurt Vonnegut married his childhood sweetheart Jane Marie Cox. Vonnegut’s first published short story, “Report on the Barnhouse Effect” was published in February 11, 1950. His first novel was the novel Player Piano and it was published on 1952.

Harrison Bergeron is a short science fiction story written by Vonnegut. It was first published in October 1961. It was originally posted in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

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