He and his wife both attended the University of Chicago, while he worked as a night reporter for the City News Bureau. He adopted his nephews after his sister died of cancer and her husband was killed in a train accident.
After the war, he married Jane Marie Cox, with whom he had three children. He was interned in Dresden, where he survived the Allied bombing of the city in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the University of Tennessee. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works further collections have been published after his death.īorn and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut attended Cornell University but withdrew in January 1943 and enlisted in the US Army. (Novem– April 11, 2007) was an American writer and humorist known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. 3 biological (including Mark and Edith), 4 adopted (including Steve Adams)
