Kurt Vonnegut is an American writer, essayist, and dramatist He was born on November 11th, 1922 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His parents are Kurt Vonnegut Sr. and Edith Vonnegut. His father was an Architect and his mother owned a family run brewery. He could not be exposed to his German heritage because of all the anti-German attitudes that went America around after WW1. When he was a child, his family lost most of their money when the depression hit them. His mother and father were distraught with the whole situation because they went from having a large sum of money to not being able to have a large amount of food. Vonnegut was unable to get the same education as his siblings because of the depression. He later majored in Chemistry and Biology
