Kurt Vonnegut was born in Indianapolis in 1922 and studied biochemistry at Cornell University. During WWII, as a prisoner of war in Germany, he witnessed the destruction of Dresden by Allied bombers, an experience which inspired Slaughterhouse Five. He died in 2007.
Flashes of plain wisdom that made his writing so dear to so many Los Angeles Times The wittiest man since Groucho Marx and the wisest since Karl Marx The Times