Vonnegut

All of his earlier writing pieces were entirely science fiction and as his writing progressed they have varying degrees of science fiction, but it is always present in his pieces.

During writing he doodled on the sides of old manuscripts which soon turned into a full on hobby later until he eventually presented a one-man show at the Margo Fiden Gallery in Greenwich Village, premiering on October 15, 1983.

He soon began finding writing increasingly tedious and painting much more fun.

Extraordinary Events that occurred to Vonnegut as a child and may have influenced his writing:

• While he was home on leave, his mother committed suicide on Mother’s Day of 1944.
  
• He survived the Allied bombing of Dresden while a prisoner.
  
• His brother-in-law died in a train crash and only hours later his sister died of cancer.
  

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He attended Cornell University for 2 years, Carnegie-Mellon University and Tennessee University both in the next year, and then the University of Chicago from 1945-47.

He was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, IN.

He married Jane Marie Cox in 1945 and later divorced her in 1979 to marry Jill Krementz.

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