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- Height6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was born on November 11, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Back to School (1986), Slaughterhouse-Five (1972) and General Electric Theater (1953). He was married to Jill Krementz and Jane Marie Cox. He died on April 11, 2007 in New York City, New York, USA.
- SpousesJill Krementz(November 24, 1979 - April 11, 2007) (his death, 1 child)Jane Marie Cox(September 1, 1945 - 1971) (divorced, 3 children)
- A soldier in the US Army during World War II, Vonnegut had been captured by German forces and imprisoned in a POW camp in Dresden, Germany. The infamous firebombing of Dresden occurred while he was there, and his survival of it and his experiences during it were the basis for his novel "Slaughterhouse-Five".
- Adopted his sister's three young children after her death.
- December 22, 1944, Vonnegut was captured during the Battle of the Bulge while a battalion scout with the 106 Infantry Division. May 22, 1945, Vonnegut released to return to the U.S. Awarded the Purple Heart.
- Was considering abandoning writing and taking a teaching job when ''Cat's Cradle'' became a best-seller.
- Ex-father-in-law of Geraldo Rivera.
- True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
- I had nothing to do with the script of Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), incidentally. That was the work of Stephen Geller -- and a good job it was. I didn't meet him until after the picture opened. He is a novelist, too, and I asked him which he liked best, writing novels or screenplays. He preferred novels by far, since they were wholly under his control.
- A nice glass of champagne at the end of a life.
- When [Ernest Hemingway] killed himself he put a period at the end of his life; old age is more like a semicolon.
- If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
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