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 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works, with further collections being published after his death.īorn and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut attended Cornell University but withdrew in January 1943 and enlisted in the US Army. ( / ˈ v ɒ n ə ɡ ə t/ Novem– April 11, 2007) was an American writer known for his satirical and darkly humorous novels. 3 biological (including Mark and Edith), 4 adopted
