Thursday, April 12, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut Dies!

From the New York Times:

Kurt Vonnegut, Counterculture’s Novelist, Dies
By DINITIA SMITH
Published: April 12, 2007

Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died last night in Manhattan. He was 84 and had homes in Manhattan and in Sagaponack on Long Island.

Read more here.

1 comment:

Jay Noel said...

What a great writer. Cat's Cradle was especially witty.