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Cat's Cradle was written by Kurt Vonnegut in 1963. It is a book about a young freelance writer writing a book about the day the atomic bomb was dropped. It is basically a book about the end of the world as we know it.
Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, IN. He is the son of Kurt (an architect) and Edith Vonnegut. He had a sister, Alice, and a brother, Bernard, who later grew up to be an atmospheric scientist who discovered how to make it rain or snow by seeding clouds with silver iodide. Bernard recently died of cancer.
Vonnegut married twice. His first wife was Jane Marie Cox whom he married on September 1, 1945 and later divorced in 1979. With Jane he had a son, Mark, and two daughters, Edith and Nanette. His second wife, whom he married in November of 1979, was Jill Krementz, a photographer. He adopted a daughter, Lili, during this marriage. Also during one of his marriages he adopted his sister's children James, Steven, and Kurt Adams, after she passed away.
Vonnegut began to show his writing talents at Shortridge High School in Indianapolis where he was a staff member of the school's newspaper, the Shortridge Daily Echo. After high school he went to Cornell University where concentrated his studies in biochemistry. However, he was not too bright in that field and received poor grades. He was able to express his writing talents once more here where he wrote for the Cornell Daily Sun as the managing editor. Later, he transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology and studied for a short time before he joined the US Infantry. After his second marriage, he attended the University of Chicago for his master's degree and his thesis was rejected unanimously.
Vonnegut worked in many writing related and non-writing related jobs before he started writing stories. He was a teacher, a freelance writer, a police reporter, and many other things as well. For a time he also worked at the General Electric Research...