There is no doubt that Kurt Vonnegut belongs to the best writers of America.
Answering critic remarks,the writer was joking, that there are a lot of wonderful writers, but there are no enough good readers.
However, nothing prevented Kurt from developing his talant.
As an any real writer, he continued working and showing to readers his new books.
Kurt
Vonnegut was born on 11th of November in 1922 in Indianopolis, the Indian state.
He was the third child and the youngest of two sons in the architect family.
His parents wanted the children to learn something useful.
The elder son made success in Chemistry area, and the youngest son, Kurt, had already started writing his first articles at school.
Father objected to his sons being a writer.
And in 1940 he, like his elder brother, entered the Chemist faculty of the university.
However Chemistry and Biology were not his favourite subjects.
He still liked Literature and prefered working on Chemistry to journalist work.
As a result in 1942 Kurt was asked for leaving the university, and he entered the technologic university.
But the success of the writer was not better.
And in 1944 after his mother`s had comiting suicide, Vonnegut left for America.
He entered the army and was taking part in military operations in Europe.
In May of 1945 the writer came back to America.
And in September he got married to Jane Fox, the friend who he went with to the kindergarden together.
Next several years Vonnegut spent in Chicago, where he studied Antropology at the university, and in 1950 moved to New-York, where his first story was published.
After the story, his first novel «Piano player» followed in 1952.
By that time after appearing his second novel «The sirens of Titan» about 50 stories had already been published.
At that time Kurt worked as an English teacher at the college for students with mental illnesses.
The life of the writer was not easy.
After his father`s death, his elder sister Alice, 41 years old, was taken with a cancer.
It happened in forty eight hours after his husband`s had having a railway crush.
Kurt took four sister`s children into his family.
And he and his wife had to take care not only with their own children but four nephews.
However nothing preveneted Kurt from writing.He became a famous writer soon.
Since 1960 to 1987 he writes and publishes ten novels, and one of the well-known ones is « Breakfast of Champions) and also some interesting stories.
The story « Who am I This time?» had been used for writing a scenary of a film.
October 2015
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