Kurt Vonnegut was an American author born in Indianapolis in 1922 who experienced hardship during the Great Depression. He served in World War II and was captured and imprisoned in Dresden, Germany where he survived the Allied firebombing of the city in 1945. After the war, he married his high school sweetheart Jane Marie Cox and went on to write several acclaimed novels that drew from his wartime experiences including Slaughterhouse-Five.

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2. Kurt Vonnegut Born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kurt Vonnegut married his high school girlfriend, Jane Marie Cox. The couple had three children. he adopted his sister's three children after her death in 1958. Kurt was born on Armistice Day, Born in Indianapolis on November 11, 1922, Kurt Vonnegut’s family was hit very hard by the Depression. Vonnegut went to public high school, unlike his two older siblings He enrolled at Cornell University in 1940 and, under pressure from his father and older brother, studied chemistry and biology. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943. His mother killed herself by overdosing on sleeping pills in May 1944. On December 14, 1944, Vonnegut was captured in the Battle of the Bulge. He was held as a POW in Dresden Vonnegut was one of the very few survivors. May 1945. He returned to the United States and married Jane Marie Cox.