Harrison Bergeron | About the Author
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana, the third child and second son of Kurt Vonnegut and Edith Lieber Vonnegut. The Vonneguts were successful architects, and they and the Liebers were respected members of the Indianapolis community for generations. Kurt was born into a large and supportive extended family.
Vonnegut was turning nine years old when the social and economic fortunes of his family changed radically. His father had no clients during the Great Depression and so endured a decade of unemployment. His mother, heiress of a now...
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