Kurt Vonnegut (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Kurt Vonnegut’s great-grandparents came to the United States from Germany in the 1850’s. He was the youngest of three children. His father was an architect whose unemployment as a result of the Great Depression led to a decline in the family’s fortunes, contributing to his mother’s suicide in 1944.

Kurt attended Shortridge High School in Indianapolis and wrote for its newspaper, the Daily Echo. He continued newspaper writing when he went to Cornell University in 1940. Although he had written against American entry into World War II, after...

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