http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6547399.stm
One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York.
He became a cult figure among students in the 1960s and 1970s with his classics of US counterculture. He wrote plays, essays and short fiction.
The defining moment of his life was the firebombing of Dresden, in Germany, by allied forces in 1945 - an event he witnessed as a young prisoner of war.
His experience was the basis of his best-known work, Slaughterhouse Five.
It was published in 1969 against the backdrop of the war in Vietnam, racial unrest and cultural and social upheaval in the United States.
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