Today is Vonnegut's 100th birthday!
From NPR's Kurt Vonnegut would have turned 100 today — his war novels are relevant as ever:
Kurt Vonnegut was disappointed in America. "I'm sorry that America isn't a greater success than it is," he told me in 1991. "Because we're so wealthy and we really could have done almost anything. And we've done so very little in comparison to what we might have done in creating an ideal society."
Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at the age of 84, would have turned 100 today. He was born in Indianapolis on Nov. 11, 1922, Armistice Day. The late author wrote satirical and darkly humorous novels that won him a cult-like following with the youth culture of the 1960s — but his work remains relevant today.
The Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library
If you have read him, there is nothing more to say. If you have not, read him.
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