Kurt Vonnegut
Portrait by Yousuf Karsh
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Kurt Vonnegut (Jr) (1922 -)
Writer, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He studied at Cornell (1940--2), the Carnegie Institute of Technology (1943),
and the University of Chicago (1945--7; MA 1971). He served in the US Army (1942--5), and his experiences as a prisoner
of war in Dresden, Germany, influenced his future work, specifically his novel, Slaughterhouse-Five (1969). He was a police
reporter in Chicago (1947), worked for General Electric Company's public relations (1947--50), and taught at numerous institutions.
He eventually settled in New York City, and produced a steady stream of novels, short stories, nonfiction, and plays. He was labeled
as a science fiction writer early in his career, but soon began to appear more as a social satirist with such works as Cat's Cradle (1963).
He is best known for his irony, wild inventive humor, and themes such as the uneasy balance between technology and humanity.
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Print description.
This high quality print was produced in Switzerland by
Imprimerie Jean Genoud SA, Lausanne. It comes from one of Yousuf Karsh art books.
The portrait, 8." x 10", is printed on thick paper sheet
that measures 9.5" x 12". The print is availbale in 11x14" mat.
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