Posted AT 12:23 AM EDT on 12/04/07
Kurt Vonnegut, 84
NEW YORK — Kurt Vonnegut, the satirical novelist who captured the absurdity of war and questioned the advances of science in darkly humorous works such as
Slaughterhouse-Five and
Cat's Cradle, died Wednesday. He was 84.
Vonnegut, who often marvelled that he had lived so long despite his lifelong smoking habit, had suffered brain injuries after a fall at his Manhattan home weeks ago, said his wife, photographer Jill Krementz.
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