Windy*
04-12-2007, 07:22 PM
I didn't see another topic on this yet, amazingly, but if there is one feel free to close.
An influential and great author left us last night. :(
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Kurt Vonnegut, whose absurdist visions and cynical outlook infused such books as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," has died. He was 84.
Vonnegut died at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital at 9:45 p.m. ET Wednesday, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.
Vonnegut had been hospitalized for several weeks after suffering brain injuries following a fall at his East Side Manhattan home.
"Kurt was a loving, funny husband who always made me laugh," Krementz said. "He was a wonderful father who was proud and supportive of his children."
Vonnegut's novels and short stories, which blended humor, bitterness, profundity and a devout humanity, attracted a wide audience and made him a key figure in 20th-century American literature.
"He was a man who combined a wicked sense of humor and sort of steady moral compass, who was always sort of looking at the big picture of the things that were most important," Joel Bleifuss, editor of the liberal magazine In These Times, told The Associated Press....
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/obit.vonnegut/index.html
Feel free to discuss favorite works, thoughts, personal impact, etc.
An influential and great author left us last night. :(
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Kurt Vonnegut, whose absurdist visions and cynical outlook infused such books as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," has died. He was 84.
Vonnegut died at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital at 9:45 p.m. ET Wednesday, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.
Vonnegut had been hospitalized for several weeks after suffering brain injuries following a fall at his East Side Manhattan home.
"Kurt was a loving, funny husband who always made me laugh," Krementz said. "He was a wonderful father who was proud and supportive of his children."
Vonnegut's novels and short stories, which blended humor, bitterness, profundity and a devout humanity, attracted a wide audience and made him a key figure in 20th-century American literature.
"He was a man who combined a wicked sense of humor and sort of steady moral compass, who was always sort of looking at the big picture of the things that were most important," Joel Bleifuss, editor of the liberal magazine In These Times, told The Associated Press....
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/04/12/obit.vonnegut/index.html
Feel free to discuss favorite works, thoughts, personal impact, etc.