Last updated on:
6/12/2008 |
Author: ProCon.org
Kurt Vonnegut, MA Biography
- Title:
- Writer
- Position:
- Pro to the question "Is the ACLU Good for America?"
- Reasoning:
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“What I’ve said again and again is that if any official from a dogcatcher on up treats you in a way which is clearly unconstitutional, don’t call the F.B.I., call the ACLU.”
Sep. 12, 2003
- Involvement and Affiliations:
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- Named State Author for New York, 2000
- Elected Vice-President of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, 1975
- Receives Honorary Litt. D. by Hobart and William Smith College, 1974
- Awarded Honorary LHD by Indiana University, 1973
- Elected Vice President of P.E.N. American Center and member of the national Institute of Arts and Letters, 1972
- Awarded National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, 1970
- Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship to research Slaughterhouse-Five in Dresden, 1965
- Awarded the Purple Heart, 1945
- Education:
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- MA, University of Chicago, awarded in recognition of Cat’s Cradle’s contribution to the field of cultural anthropology, 1971
- MA thesis “On the Fluctuations between Good and Evil in Simple Tales” rejected by the anthropology faculty, 1946
- University of Chicago, MA program in anthropology, 1945
- Cornell University, biochemistry major, 1940
- Other:
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- Enlisted in the United States Army, 1943
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