From the The NYT: Kurt Vonnegut, Novelist Who Caught the Imagination of His Age, Is Dead at 84.
Kurt Vonnegut was the author of such works as Player Piano (1952), The Sirens of Titan (1959), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) and Timequake (1997). Although often noted as a science fiction author, he has frequently expressed disdain at being labeled as such.
See also:
Wikipedia entry on Vonnegut
VonnegutWeb (unofficial)
A 1965 Vonnegut article: On Science Fiction
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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday April 12, 2007 at 12:02 AM
© 2007 SF Signal
I never liked his books, I'm afraid, but I'm still sorry to see he's died. Whether I like him or not, he was still a major American author, and I'm sorry to see him go.
Posted by Pete Tzinski on Thursday April 12, 2007 at 11:18 AM
Very weird, a Hoosier native we just did a story (I work in TV) on Indianapolis choosing Slaughter-House Five as the One City One Book for this year. And calling 2007 The YEar of Vonnegut. He had several scheduled appearances here this year, now his son will cover them....
Posted by Bryans on Thursday April 12, 2007 at 12:11 PM
More bad news, sometime genre actor Roscoe Lee Brown passed on as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/obituaries/12browne.html
Posted by Fred Kiesche on Thursday April 12, 2007 at 2:00 PM
I've said it for years. Celebrities always go in threes.
Posted by Pete Tzinski on Thursday April 12, 2007 at 10:31 PM