New York - The author, Kurt Vonnegut, was in hospital yesterday being treated for smoke inhalation after attempting to put out a fire in his Manhattan townhouse on Sunday night.
Vonnegut (77), who rose to fame on his 1969 anti-war novel Slaughterhouse-Five, was in critical, but stable condition at the burn centre at the Weill Cornell Centre of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He had been watching the Super Bowl football game while smoking a cigarette, it was reported.
