Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Dies

Novelist Kurt Vonnegut died Wednesday at the age of 84 after suffering brain injuries following a recent fall, reports the Associated Press.

Vonnegut has written over a dozen books, short stories, essays and plays. His works included such elements as social commentary, science fiction and autobiography, with science fiction being his most well-known genre. He wrote such books as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Hocus Pocus.

Pulitzer prize winning novelist Norman Mailer called Vonnegut "a marvelous writer with a style that remained undeniably and imperturbably his own. ... I would salute him as our own Mark Twain."

Vonnegut is survived by a wife, photographer Jill Krementz. He has three adopted children,-his sister's, whom he adopted after her death-three children by his first wife, Jane Marie Cox, and an adopted daughter, Lily, with Krementz.