Saul Bellow (1915- )

• novelist and Nobel laureate
• born in Lachine, Quebec
• parents emigrated from St. Petersburg
• educated at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University
• taught at University of Minnesota, New York University, Princeton, the University of Chicago and Boston University
• lived for a time in Paris on a Guggenheim fellowship, where he wrote most of his best-known novel, The Adventures of Augie March.
• 1976 Nobel Prize in literature
• Novels:
  • Dangling Man (1944), deals with a young man waiting to be drafted in wartime
  • The Victim (1947)
  • The Adventures of Augie March (1953). The novel gives an often humorous picture of Jewish life in Chicago and of a young man's search for identity.
  • Seize the Day (1956) and
  • Henderson the Rain King (1959).
  • Herzog (1964) and
  • Mr. Sammler's Planet (1970)
  • Humboldt's Gift (1975), 1976 Pulitzer Prize in fiction
  • The Dean's December (1982)
  • To Jerusalem and Back (1976)
  • More Die of Heartbreak (1987)
  • A Theft (1989)
  • The Bellarosa Connection (1989)
• Essays:
  • It All Adds Up

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