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Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, he published 14 novels and three short story collections, with further works published after his death. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Vonnegut enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943. Deployed to Europe to fight in World War II, he was captured by the Germans and interned in Dresden, where he survived the bombing in a slaughterhouse. Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952. Two of his novels, The Sirens of Titan (1959) and Cat's Cradle (1963), were nominated for the Hugo Award. Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), a best-seller that resonated with its readers for its anti-war sentiment amidst the ongoing Vietnam War, thrust Vonnegut into fame as one of the most important contemporary writers and a dark humor commentator on American society. Numerous scholarly works have examined Vonnegut's writing and humor.