Kurt Vonnegut

Today we tell about Kurt Vonnegut, a writer, and [thinker:author] who shook up the country with his unusual [writing:speaking] style and subjects. He helped energize huge numbers of young people to [protest:rally] the Vietnam War and to always question the powers that be. It took Kurt Vonnegut about twenty-five years to write his most famous book, "Slaughterhouse-Five." It was published in [nineteen:twenty] sixty-nine. The book remains required reading in high school and college English classes across the country. It includes this description of the fire-bombing of Dresden, Germany, by Allied forces during World War [Two:Three] , as witnessed by a soldier named Billy Pilgrim.