Submission + - Kurt Vonnegut dead at 84
mcgrew (sm62704) writes: "From the Chicago Tribune:
My generation was especially fond of this writer. As the Trib says
The Tribune has quite a lengthy biography, photo spreads, and other stories about Mr. Vonnegut.Kurt Vonnegut, an American cultural hero celebrated for his wry, loonily imaginative commentary on war, apocalypse, technology, materialism and other afflictions in "Slaughterhouse-Five" and other novels, has died. He was 84.
One of the last of a generation of great American novelists of World War II, Vonnegut died Wednesday night in New York City.
Vonnegut suffered brain injuries in a fall several weeks ago, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.
My generation was especially fond of this writer. As the Trib says
"Unorthodox in structure and patently antiwar, the novel [Slaughterhouse-Five]resonated with a rebellious younger generation. Vonnegut became an icon of the countercultural 1970s and his book became a milestone of postmodern American literature, unequaled in force or artistry by any of his later novels.