Author Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84

Kurt Vonnegut author of such books as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle," has died. He was 84.

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""He was a man who combined a wicked sense of humor and sort of steady moral compass, who was always sort of looking at the big picture of the things that were most important," Joel Bleifuss, editor of the liberal magazine In These Times, told The Associated Press. Vonnegut occasionally contributed to In These Times."