Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born in 1915 in Lachine, near Montreal, into a Jewish family that had come from Saint Petersburg, the son of an alcohol smuggler, and arrived in Chicago at the age of nine. Six months in hospital, at the age of eight, gave him the habit of reading. A graduate in anthropology and sociology, he taught for more than thirty years at the University of Chicago and married five times. A three-time winner of the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize winner, he received the Nobel Prize in 1976 “for the human understanding and subtle analysis of contemporary culture that are combined in his work”. He died in Massachusetts in 2005.

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• NovelThe Adventures of Augie MarchSaul Bellow · 1953Literature