Which American author wrote 'Slaughterhouse-Five'?

Kurt Vonnegut wrote the American novel Slaughterhouse-Five.

Published in 1969, the book is formally titled Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death. It draws heavily on Vonnegut’s experience as an American soldier captured during World War II. He survived the Allied firebombing of Dresden while being held as a prisoner of war in a slaughterhouse cellar.

The novel follows Billy Pilgrim, who becomes “unstuck in time” and experiences moments from his life out of chronological order. Science-fiction elements, including Billy’s alleged abduction by extraterrestrials from Tralfamadore, combine with dark comedy and an uncompromising anti-war perspective.

A common mix-up is confusing the author with the narrator, who sometimes resembles Vonnegut himself, or with Billy Pilgrim, the fictional protagonist. Thomas Pynchon, John Irving, and Joseph Heller are also major American novelists, but none wrote this particular Dresden-centered work. Slaughterhouse-Five became Vonnegut’s breakthrough novel and remains his best-known title.