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Later, using a coarse expression, he described his lack of marriage prospects upon returning to Indianapolis, but that year, he married and soon had a son.
Later, using a coarse expression, he described his lack of marriage prospects upon returning to Indianapolis, but that year, he married and soon had a son.
Vonnegut attended the University of Chicago, attaining master's level work in anthropology but failed to receive a master's degree when his master's dissertation was rejected. He was much later awarded the degree by the university substituting his 1963 novel ''Cat's Cradle'' for the dissertation.
Vonnegut sold his first humorous short story in 1950, "Report on The Barnhouse Effect", with the assistance of an editor named Knox Burger, to whom he dedicated his second collection of short stories in 1968. He was to sell many more during the rest of the decade, some to ''The Saturday Evening Post'', a journal which would only publish some of them after he became famous, and others which he considered inferior publications, possibly in which to conceal some hack work.
Vonnegut sold his first humorous short story in 1950, "Report on The Barnhouse Effect", with the assistance of an editor named Knox Burger, to whom he dedicated his second collection of short stories in 1968. He was to sell many more during the rest of the decade, some to ''The Saturday Evening Post'', a journal which would only publish some of them after he became famous, and others which he considered inferior publications, possibly in which to conceal some hack work.