Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America’ s attention in The Sirens of Titan in 1959 and established him, in the words of The New York Times, as “ a true artist” with the publication of Cat’ s Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene declared, “ one of the best living American writers. ” Mr. Vonnegut passed away in April 2007.
